SUMMARIES & PHOTOS - PREVIOUS FESTIVALS

Recap of the 2006 Imago Film Festival (.pdf format)

Recap of the 2007 Imago Film Festival (.pdf format)

Recap of the 2008 Imago Film Festival (.pdf format)

PowerPoint - Photos of the 2007 festival (file size: 16MB)

PowerPoint - Photos of the 2008 festival (file size: 2.2MB)

PREVIOUS FESTIVAL SPEAKERS

David Dark (Keynote Speaker):
David Dark is author of Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, The Simpsons, and Other Pop Culture Icons and The Gospel According To America: A Meditation On A God-Blessed, Christ-Haunted Idea, which was included in Publishers' Weekly 's top religious books of 2005.  He has presented at the Cinema Studies Conference, Arkansas Literary Festival, and Festival of Faith and Music.

Darren Wilson:
Darren Wilson is an independent filmmaker and Assistant Professor at Judson University, in Elgin, Illinois.  Darren earned his MFA in Script and Screenwriting from Regent University, in Virginia Beach, Virginia.  Darren recently released his first feature film, Finger of God, which details his personal journey around the world in search of the miraculous.  He is currently working on his next feature, Furious Love. 

Stephen Vidano:
Stephen Vidano earned a BA in Communication from Seattle Pacific University and started his film career in post-production at Seattle Post & Post Production.  Disappointed with the material he was editing, Vidano dreamed of taking the next step.  Since then, Stephen has directed and shot world-class productions across the globe. He most recent finished directing the documentary Star of Bethlehem and the made-for-TV movie Tilly, written by best-selling author Frank Peretti.

Robert K. Johnston (Keynote Speaker):
Robert K. Johnston is Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and Co-Director of the Reel Spirituality Institute there. His books include Reel Spirituality, Theology and Film in Dialogue, 2nd edition (2000, 2006), Useless Beauty: Eccclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film (2004), and with Catherine Barsotti, Finding God In the Movies: 33 Films of Reel Faith (2004). He is a former President of the American Theological society.

Phil Vischer (Keynote Speaker):
Phil Vischer is a writer, actor, animator, and the founder of Big Idea productions. He created Veggies Tales with Mike Nawrocki with nothing more than three interns and a computer in his spare bedroom. Although still working with Veggies Tales, he now devotes most of his time to the development of independent projects with his new creative shop, Jellyfish Studios. His account of his rollercoaster ride with Big Idea productions has just been published as Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables (2007).

Jeff Cain:
Jeff Cain is a conceptually based artist and designer whose work with new media, sculpture, and performance has been presented at the Getty Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The Armand Hammer Museum. He is the founder and inventor of RHZ Radio, which was nominated for the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005. Currently, he is the director/curator of the Shed Research Institute and is on staff at the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts.

J. Roberts Parks:
J. Roberts Parks is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College in Chicago, where he teaches courses on media theory, film, and advertising. He is also a film critic for Time Out Chicago, Paste Magazine, and the Hyde Park Herald. When he's not watching 250 movies a year, he works with his church's youth group and ponders how evangelicals can better impact our culture.

Mike Hertenstein:
Mike has written about film for the web and print, created and overseen film festivals and film-related conferences, and made his own films. His books include The Double Vision of Star Trek and Selling Satan: The Tragic History of Mike Warnke. He currently directs program planning for the Flickerings film festival and the Imaginarium at the annual Cornerstone Festival.

James M. Wall (keynote speaker):
James M. Wall is a senior contributing editor to Christian Century Magazine, Chicago IL. He is an adjunct professor in Religion and Culture at Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, CA and a frequent ecumenical judge at film festivals at Montreal, Berlin, and Denver.