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Love, faith and ambition in the digital age

The romantic drama ‘How We Met’ explores love, faith and ambition in the digital age – where life looks great online, but reality is a different story.

How We Met follows the journey of how Francesca and Joseph came to meet. Francesca is an ambitious dreamer who is questioning her dating choices. Joseph is a hopeless romantic who is finding it hard to let go of the only woman he’s ever loved. The series takes us on their journey to finding each other and how it impacts the moment they met.

“I wanted to create a show that didn’t shy away from talking about faith, in a natural and not preachy way. Just showing the lifestyles of young Christians in modern society, the positive sides more so than the negatives.” Loriamah (Writer)

It’s a story that many can relate to, especially in a time where we showcase our best moments on social media but don’t show the challenges and low moments that we all go through from time to time.

The series is due to be released on August 15 2022 on the Yellow Heart Entertainment YouTube channel – https://www.youtube.com/c/YellowHeartEntertainment at 7pm BST time.

How We Met is a Yellow Heart Entertainment production. Yellow Heart Entertainment aims to empower and promote diverse talent from different cultural backgrounds to tell inspiring stories, especially from a faith-based perspective.

Series is produced by Loriamah Skerrit and directed by Pharez Aouad.

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Spotlight with Rob DePalo Writer/Producer Tapestry (2019) – Christian Film

In 2011 I was called into meet with my boss at a major commercial bank in New York City. After 25 years of top-performance,  I was told that my position was eliminated and there was no longer a place for me in middle-management.  I was angry, devastated, bitter and worried. My oldest son was about to enter an expensive college, we had just booked an expensive 7-day cruise for our family of five and suddenly like the flip of a light switch, things had turned dark… a 50 year old family man with no job! 

To compound matters,  my marriage was in a bad place, my kids were at the point where they no longer needed me,  and my mother was in the hospital dealing with a life-threatening illness. I managed to stay on with the bank but in order to do so I had to take a lower level position which began to create episodes of panic attacks and long-term depression.  All along I was still dealing with the problems within my family life and my ailing mother.  My world was crumbling. Just when all seemed lost, events started to unfold which led me to a different perspective on life and God’s involvement in our lives. 

I wrote a story and called it “TAPESTRY” and that story became a film.  Not only had God aided me in my life, but I truly feel that HIS hand was weaving a Tapestry that would take me down a road of discovery and ultimately peace in my life. This film in many ways was written by God as HE gave me the gift and inspired me to tell a story that I truly feel God wanted me to tell. I am a first time film maker who had a very small budget to make this film with but thanks to God’s will, and many very talented Christians who came together in a labor of love, we were able to get veteran actors such as Stephen Baldwin, Tina Louise and Burt Young to play the main characters in the movie. My name is Rob DePalo. 

I hope that people will watch this film,  and take from it the messages of Hope, and Love, and Christianity. The film is streaming on Amazon Prime, iTunes,  Christiancinema.com,  Comcast Xfinity, and VUDU  and is also available in DVD format as well.  

Tapestry was an official selection at the following film festivals:  International Christian Film Festival,  The IndieFest FilmAwards, The Green Mountain Film Festival,  The Winter Film Awards and the International Online Web Fest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIfIhxjUvXk

Director:

Ken Kushner

Writers:

Rob DePalo, Ken Kushner 

Stars:

Tina Louise, Stephen Baldwin, Burt Young 

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I’m an Atheist and I Feel Like I’m Smarter Than Religious People

Letter to a Backslider

It used to be that teens and young adults would say, “Yeah I’m an atheist, I’m all about facts and science, my parents hate it, but they’ll just have to get over it. This is who I am.”

Now tell me, how in the world are people not finding any facts within a book that’s sixty-six chapters long? Not to mention study Bibles, have you seen those things? They are humongous and full of extra historical context and Biblical meaning. Young people (myself included) once claimed atheism because we were trying to seem dark or edgy, we really didn’t actually think we were atheists, we just stopped paying attention to God!

Our God is not social media, our God is not whatever is trending on Netflix, our God is, well, God.

Now that we have grown out of that phase, not caring what people think of us, we see more and more people millennial age or younger that are labeled as the new “kings of cool” because they profess Jesus as their savior. Our God is not social media, our God is not whatever is trending on Netflix, our God is, well, God. People on social media platforms have started arguments in which they claim “God is not real,” only to have Christians boldly proclaim the opposite. Despite either getting shunned or ganged up on by trolls, those sticking to their guns are seen as the rebels to those lurking and watching the back and forth action.

Hollywood knows where this is going too; with big films like I Can Only Imagine and Paul Apostle Of Christ making waves in the movie business, it’s only a matter of time before the mainstream media hypes up its popularity. Or, they might just try and ignore how much people like these movies and do their best to cover it up with something worldly, you really never know with them.

It’s trendy right now to be politically incorrect and against the current culture because people are sick of doing what they always have done; it’s not working for them anymore. The vast majority who are sticking to the norm, are seen as “sleeping sheep that just need to be red pilled.” The same goes with following God; people want more out of their lives than just the day to day, they want a life with purpose and meaning. They know God can give them that.

So if you see a bunch of people saying they’re “atheists” just to be cool,  tell them that they need to check out social media more often, the rebels are the Christians.

 

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Denzel Washington’s Latest Movie and Hollywood’s Quest to Score the Faith Audience

Denzel Washington’s Latest Movie and Hollywood’s Quest to Score the Faith Audience

Roman J. Israel, Esq. is set in the underbelly of the overburdened Los Angeles criminal court system.

Denzel Washington stars as a driven, idealistic defense attorney whose life is upended when his mentor, a civil rights icon, dies. When he is recruited to join a firm led by one of the legendary man’s former students – the ambitious lawyer George Pierce (Colin Farrell) – and begins a friendship with a young champion of equal rights (Carmen Ejogo), a turbulent series of events ensue that will put the activism that has defined Roman’s career to the test.

An Oscar winner accepted among the mainstream elite, for Christians, Denzel Washington comes across as the ideal film star, he is also open and even evangelical about his Christian beliefs.

Face to face, the 62-year-old speaks like a Pentecostal preacher about his belief in Jesus Christ and his new movie, Roman J. Israel, Esq. Denzel Washington says the legal drama, like many other projects in his repertoire, is influenced by his faith.

“I’m doing what God told me to do from the beginning.  It was prophesied that I would travel the world and preach to millions of people. It was prophesied when I was 20. I thought it would be through my work, and it has been.”

 

Its no wonder why Hollywood has used Washington’s to attract faith audiences around the world like 2010’s Book of Eli.

Washington’s character in Roman J. Israel, Esq., puts his values ahead of anything else in his life. To stay true to his ideals, he sacrifices relationships, money, and reputation – a true believer in justice.

“He’s working toward a better humanity,” said Dan Gilroy, the movie’s writer and director, describing Israel as intentionally drawn as a Christ figure. “He’s a role model in the sense that he’s overlooked … yet he’s an absolute hero.”

The desire to stick to one’s values, even in the face of hardship is a theme Christians can get behind and relate to. However, Roman J. Israel, Esq. is more about the inspirational power of humanity than the power of God.

Washington said that the good intentions of the movie and the characters were a big part of the reason he joined the project.

 

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