Congratulations to all our 2011 winners.

All jurors' favorites among the winning entries will be screened either at our  official screening on Friday, November 18 or at the Grand Awards Ceremony on Saturday November 19, at 5:00 P.M. The following is a complete list of the 2011 Redemptive Storyteller Award Winners in our four categories: Student, Professional, Professional Low Budget and Distinctly Gospel (script and screenplay).

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Lifetime Achievement

World Wide Pictures (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association).

WWP is a film distributor and production company established as a subsidiary of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in 1951. It was involved in the production and distribution of evangelistic films, the production of Graham crusade films, and publicity for Graham crusades.

WWP got its start after Evangelist Billy Graham met Dick Ross, who had produced a documentary film of Graham's 1950 crusade in Portland, Oregon. That film's success led the BGEA to buy Ross's production company, and hire him as the president of a new BGEA subsidiary incorporated as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Film Ministry (which was to be WWP's official name until 1980). Billy Graham films have been shown around the world since 1953, and viewers have recorded more than two million decisions for Christ as a result.

Student

Abraham (14m, Australia)
Director: James Robertson
God commands Abraham to take his son, Isaac, to the sacred mountain and sacrifice him there. Abraham tells Sarah of God’s demand. She packs Isaac’s clothes into a small bag for the journey while Abraham selects his killing knife. Abraham drives Isaac to the mountain while Sarah waits at home.

At the Crossroads (15m, U S A)
Director: Galen Perkins

Producer: Bob Hager
At the Crossroads traces the journey of a pastor, who comes to terms with the realization of the need for a radical transformation of the congregations ministry. Cultural changes have revealed shortcomings in the way the church approaches ministry.

Consequential Lies (17m, U S A)
Director: Alex Fjellberg Swerdlowe
An isolated suburban woman with a dark past receives a phone call that reveals an eighteen year old secret.

Dinner With Fred (25m, U S A)
Director: Ben Proudfoot
At the cusp of the Invasion of Normandy, devoted artillery lieutenant Fred Conrad's train comes to a screeching halt when he is ripped from the sides of his brothers and sent home to lead the Canadian push to cope with a massive wartime food shortage. Fred, with the help of his loving wife Hilda, turns a change-of-plans into a career in humane poultry science.

GU YEO-RUM-EUI BA-DA (22m, South Korea, U S A)
Director: Jaehee Lee
A father and son, roles now reversed as one becomes the caretaker of the other, execute a delicate dance at the edge of the sea.

Humble Pie (24m, U S A)
Director: Joseph Rohrs
A young monk struggles with the temptation to sate his growling stomach, not realizing that another of his brethren had succumbed to the same temptation many years earlier. The novices gnawing guilt over the theft of a pie and then his liberating confession brings conviction to the older monk whose sin remained long hidden, until he must taste his own slice of forgiveness.

Living and Active (6m, U S A)
Director: Karla Braithwaite
It's just another day in the city - an out of work businessman is on his way to get a cup of coffee. As usual, he passes a homeless guy on the street. But today, something is different, something in the man's outstretched hand touches his heart.

Professional

A Voice for Life (58m, U S A)
Director: Gunther Meisse II
Melissa Ohden survived a saline induced abortion procedure and miraculously suffered no physical or mental damage. She returned to the same hospital in 2008 and gave birth to her daughter, Olivia. Melissa now shares her story around the world and is having a positive impact on many lives touched by abortion.

Awakened (96m, U S A)
Executive Producer: Scott Perkins
Newspaper reporter Jacob Harker loses his job, forcing he and his wife Haley to move into a small rental house. In the process of moving in, Jacob discovers a discarded audio recording of 60's blues singer Carol James. Captivated by the voice on the recording, Jacob conducts an investigation into Carol James' life and death.

Children are Our Flowers (40m, Ireland)
Director: Jim Fahy
Children are Our Flowers is the story of the courageous and joyous journey of two little girls, who were abandoned at birth and placed in a bleak orphanage, officially known as a children's mental asylum, in a remote forest village in Belarus.

Creed of Gold (117m, U S A)
Director: Daniel Knudsen
This saga begins in Moscow, Russia and ends in New York City. It is an intellectually-based, family adventure drama about the story of Adam Smith, a college student who against all odds must clear his father's name and protect the financial interests of the world from those who would exploit it.

Dilli (25m, India)
Director: Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas
Dilli is a moving collection of heartfelt interviews with Delhi slum dwellers. Its lens focuses on a group of dwellers, bringing to life the untold story of mass exodus of thousands who were bulldozed from their homes and transferred to a makeshift facade - Bawana without water, shelter or drainage, while the city was being beautified for the Commonwealth Games 2010.

Dog Jack (115m, U S A)
Director: Edward McDougal
An escaped slave boy joins the Pennsylvania 102nd Volunteers with his dog named Jack and brings with him a tremendous fear of confronting his former captors yet an all-encompassing desire to take vengeance on them and free his mother and sister back at his former plantation.

Finding Hope Now (113m, U S A)
Director: Jennifer Tadlock
True story about Reverend Roger Minassian who at the age of 53 leaves the security of his pastorate to step outside his comfort zone to do the truly amazing. Knowing nothing about gang youth, he takes to the streets of Fresno and transforms the city, ravaged by gang violence, by dedicating himself to taking over 1,700 gang kids off our streets.

God Willing (72m, U S A)
Director: Evangeline Griego
God Willing is a powerful exploration of a 35-year-old American religious sect known as “The Church.' It also outlines the struggles of families whose children turn away from them to become “Brothers” and “Sisters” in the group, renouncing their past lives and the world – often, without ever turning back.

New Project "Billy" (85m, Canada)
Director: Winston Washington Moxam
A young journalist arrives at a retirement home in 1968 to interview Billy, a 94 year old Black man. Billy tells him the story of his eventful life, dating back to when he left the United States for Northern Canada. He recalls his struggle with racism, his love for a woman, and his gift of photography. Billy is the story of one man's search for acceptance.

Paper Flower (21m, Japan, U S A)
Director: Brent Green
Asuka and Michi are childhood friends growing up in Tokyo. When they each experience heartbreaking losses, they are forced to decide how much of themselves they are willing to give in order to find true love.

Strong Bodies Fight (65m, Bangladesh, U S A)
Director: William Donaruma
'Strong bodies fight that weak bodies may be nourished.' This is the mantra of the Notre Dame Boxing Team, which hosts an annual charity tournament called the 'Bengal Bouts' to support development in Bangladesh. This film takes us on an inspirational journey with the Notre Dame boxers, the Holy Cross Missionaries, and the people of Bangladesh, together engaged in a unified fight against poverty.

The Dome of Heaven (89m, U S A)
Director: Diane Glancy
The Dome of Heaven is a contemporary film about the struggle for stability in a dysfunctional family. The father is Cherokee, the mother is German. They have two grown children, Franklin and Flutie. Flutie gets pushed to the side. She desires to go to college, though she cannot speak in class. Franklin, and their father work as auto mechanics. Their volatile relationship leads to fights, jail, and eventual tragedy.

Professional Low Budget

(below US$30,000)

Against the Tide (25m, USA)
Director: Alan Julich

Against the Tide follows Holland and Rasor from the day of release, through the challenges and choices they meet in their transition back into society. The film also shows the vital role of support teams in the re-entry of these two men. There are more than 40,000 men and women locked up in North Carolina prisons. Of these inmates, 98 percent will eventually re-enter society.

Beware of Christians (93m, U S A)
Director: Will Bakke
Alex, Matt, Michael, and Will have grown up as Bible-believing Christians who did all the right things. As they’ve grown older, they’ve realized that the Jesus in the Bible doesn’t exactly look like the healthy, wealthy, American Jesus they’ve been trained to know and love. They soon realize that their biases and allegiances to worldly things have determined their views on Christianity.

Carry Me Home (25m, U S A)
Director: Shannon Newby
Sonny loves going to work every day. What is his job? He is an angel who carries souls to heaven. Everything is going great until he comes across a soul whose destination is not yet determined. Now Sonny must protect this 'hanger' soul, from demons trying to lay claims to him, until he gets word on what to do next.

Dear Sister (South Africa)
Director: Nkanyiso Ncube
A film about a brother and sister who grow up as orphans in a South African township. They learn to fend for each other and only the young girl, Tshego, gets to finish school. When an opportunity arises for her to get a job in Cape Thando comes face-to-face with the illegal sex trade in the city.

Mother Stories (24m, U S A)

Producer: Paul Perreault
In 1980, after 37 years at the Sacred Heart Parish in Lowell, MA, Fr. Edward Randall was relocated to St. George Catholic Church in Jenkins, Kentucky. Mother Teresa, while scouting a location for her first rural mission in the United States, stopped in the small town of Jenkins and met Father Randall. This is where she chose set up her new mission.

My Name is Paul (18m, U S A)
Director: Trey Ore
In a Post-Apocalyptic World, Paul Cambio is both feared and respected for the work he does for the powerful Government. His zealous nature, taught from childhood, carries him on a quest to destroy the Way-People, an underground group of believers of the Way hidden from the seething eyes of the Babel Government.

Rainbow Town (76m, U S A, Liberia)
Director: Lauren Selmon Roberts
With war raging around her, she had to make a choice: to protect the orphaned children forced into her life or abandon them and go in search of her own family. With no money and no food, both choices seemed impossible. Rainbow Town is the staggering true story of Feeta Naimen and the children who call her Mother.

Rescued (12m, U S A)
Director: Karen Eachus
At an abandoned rest stop in the middle of nowhere and without cell phone reception, Adam has exhausted all options to repair his car and has all but given up hope until in the distance, an old man rises over the hill wearing a sign proclaiming 'THE END IS NEAR'

The Birth of Saint Eliseo - Protector de las Esposas (13m, U S A)
Director: Stacy Dean Campbell
On the Texas-Mexico border in 1937 when a debt is owed it is paid...one way or another. But when the payment is too high for Eliseo, he is forced to find resolve in a long overdue confrontation with Jefe Navarette who has held the Village of Resurreccion under his oppression for years.

The Last Days of Extraordinary Lives (87m, U S A)
Director: Randy Bacon
If end-of-life looks you in the face, what thoughts, feelings, words and wisdom would you tell about living life...to the fullest? In this inspiring documentary, ordinary people (just like you and me) face their last days and tell extraordinary stories about life and living.

Distinctly Gospel

A Wretch Like Me (Script, No runtime, )

Writer: Duane Kellogg, Jr.
A film based on John Newton's autobiography. After John's religiously devout mother dies when John is only seven years old, he falls into a pit of anger, despair, and involvement in the slave trade. However, his love for a young woman and the miraculous grace of God intervene, and John rises again to become an Anglican priest, the writer of America's favorite hymn, and a champion of the cause against slavery.

Broken (4m, U S A)
Director: Michelle Shelfer
Decades ago an animated character began to flit about at the peripheries of my mind's eye. Over the years the character became an imaginary friend, always nearby yet never fully in focus. On my fiftieth birthday I had what can only be described as a supernatural encounter with my imaginary friend, at a critical time in my life when I had begun to wonder if I could ever find joy.

The Dancer (11m, U S A)
Director: Seth Stark
100-degree heat. 2-man crew. 4-day shoot. 1-man cast.
Shot on location in a remote village in India, The Dancer shows life through the eyes of an 11-year-old orphan boy, Satish Kumar, a non-actor portraying himself and giving us unrestricted access into his world.

The Grandfathers (54m, U S A)
Director: Jim Hanon
A young man searches for his identity deep in the Amazon jungle while living among the tribe that murdered his grandfather decades earlier. The Grandfathers is a motion-graphics documentary completing Jim Hanon’s inspiring trilogy.

Key (7m, Australia)
Director: Trevor Wright
It is dark, it is damp, it is cold. Pedro's hope for a brighter future lie waiting locked behind an imprisoning door. In a world of Marionettes we enter the life of Pedro, a work hardened, middle aged man who lives captive by the walls of his dwelling. The fistful of useless keys that Pedro owns only serve to frustrate.

Reconciliation (101m, U S A)
Director: Chad Ahrendt
Reconciliation is a groundbreaking, provocative story about an estranged father and son struggling to overcome the heartbreaking consequences of their past. Grant Taylor (Eric Nenninger) has been troubled by intense childhood memories ever since his wife, Sara (Chelsey Crisp), gave him the exciting news...'You are going to be a dad!'

The Karen: Forgotten but not Forsaken (23m, U S A)

Director: Michael Jones
The Karen are the oldest and largest indigenous tribe in Burma (Myanmar). They are being systematically exterminated, in a campaign of ethnic cleansing by a brutal dictatorship intent on seizing their tribal lands. The 'elections' in Burma have intensified government attacks, bringing new refugees into already overcrowded camps on the Thai border.

Samuel L Collins and the Search for Biblical Truths - Singapore (26m, U S A)
Producer: John Collins

Where is your treasure?
When Samuel L. Collins finds money in Singapore will he decide to follow his own way or follow God's Truth? Join Sam, and his sister Katie, as they follow top-secret clues, solve encrypted cipher codes, utilize high-tech gadgets, and locate a hidden geocaching treasure box.

When Everett was Still Dancing (Script)

Writer: Diane Glancy