Richard Lackey: An Introduction

Many thanks to the HOSFU team for giving me the opportunity to be a guest blogger. It really is an honor and a priviledge. It’s an honor to have an outlet for my own writing, and to actively encourage and invest some of my own knowledge and experience in certain fields to other Kingdom film makers and story tellers.

In this first post from me, I’d like to introduce myself.

My name is Richard Lackey, and I am currently a feature film (or long-form as we call it) post production producer at South Africa’s (probably Africa’s) leading studio, lab and post production facility, Waterfront Studios. We currently operate the largest sound proofed stages on the continent, one of only two Kodak Imagecare approved film labs in South Africa, and a state of the art post and VFX facility.

I’m one of a team of two that service our long form clients, which are made up of of some local producers, but a fair number of British, German and American producers who come to South Africa to save money. We’ve serviced large scale film based television series such as NBC/Universal’s The Philanthropist shot here last year, more recently Clint Eastwood’s … Continue Reading

Framework Productions Launching Its First Production

On January 7, 2010, the new start up ministry, Framework Productions, will launch its first production.

From Framework Productions’ official press release, “We at Framework believe that the Miracle on the Hudson incident was … Continue Reading

Sherwood Baptist Church Spreads the Gospel Through Christian Movies

Sherwood Pictures Founder and Producer Stephen Kendrick
on the Feature Film Panel at the San Antonio Independent
Christian Film Academy 2009

Sherwood Baptist Church was founded in 1956 in Albany, Georgia. Sherwood Pictures, the church’s film production company, was conceived in 2002 after Alex and Stephen Kendrick, brothers and pastors on staff at Sherwood Baptist Church, read a national poll which said that film and television … Continue Reading

Interview With Barbara Sundstrom of Cross Wind Productions

Barbara Sundstrom is the Executive Director of Cross Wind Productions, a non-profit organization dedicated to mentoring teenage filmmakers, while producing dramatic movies that address tough teen issues. Barbara is also the writer, director and producer of four of Cross Wind Productions’ movies.

Barbara studied screenwriting in UCLA’s online professional writing program and was the Director of Promotion, a playwright and an actress with professional Christian theatre company, A.D. Players, in Houston, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Baylor University (Waco, Texas) and her M.A. in Communication from the University of Houston (Houston, Texas).

Barbara Sundstrom: The primary purpose of Cross Wind Productions is to meet the needs of the teen generation through the films we produce and the teenagers we mentor. The teen interns are not only the actors, but also vital members of the production crew, working under the guidance of industry … Continue Reading