Forgiveness, Foster Care, and Purposeful Filmmaking
Faith & Family Filmmakers · Geoffrey and Jaclyn Whitt
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Episode 158 - Forgiveness, Foster Care, and Purposeful Filmmaking
This is the first in a four-part series about impact films, with filmmakers creating projects to bring awareness to a cause or need. In this episode of the Faith and Family Filmmakers podcast, your host Geoffrey Whitt interviews Erin Dooley, a writer and director known for her work on themes of forgiveness, family, and faith. Erin discusses her journey into filmmaking, and shares insights about her projects, including her documentary 'A Way to Forgiveness,' and her latest impact project, 'Adopting Faith,' a short film designed to raise awareness about foster care and adoption. Erin discusses her plans to organize foster fairs to support this cause, and provides valuable advice for filmmakers looking to create mission-driven content.
Highlights include:
- Erin's Journey into Filmmaking
- Creating 'Broken and Beautiful'
- The Camino de Santiago and 'A Way to Forgiveness'
- Adopting Faith: A Special Awareness Project
- The Foster Fair Initiative
- Unique Approaches and Added Work
- Advice for Aspiring Impact Filmmakers
- Podcast: Confessions of a Catholic Single
Bio:
Erin is a writer and director who tells stories with the themes of forgiveness, family and faith - the good "F" words. :) Erin has produced a scripted comedy podcast, two feature films, numerous short films, two comedy web series, a collaborative web series, and one feature documentary. Erin and her projects have been featured in over 40 different media outlets. Newsweek featured Baked Goodes in "A Guide of What to Watch" and Decider reviewed it as "some of the internet's most well-done web content."
Erin is also a speaker, traveling with her documentary A Way to Forgiveness giving talks about how to forgive.
Watch Erin's short film 'Adopting faith': https://tinyurl.com/AdoptingFaith
Erins Website and Socials:
https://dash-entertainment.weebly.com/
www.instagram.com/dash_entertain_erin
www.facebook.com/DASHEntertainment
Editing by Michael Roth
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The Faith & Family Filmmakers podcast helps filmmakers who share a Christian worldview stay in touch, informed, and inspired. Releasing new episodes every week, we interview experts from varying fields of filmmaking; from screenwriters, actors, directors, and producers, to film scorers, talent agents, and distributors.
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