SAICFF to award largest cash prize in the world!

Today, Vision Forum unveiled a big announcement about the 2009 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival...the top winner will receive a cash award in the amount of $101,000! View a promo video here.

Excerpts from the press release:

Thanks to the generous donation of a private foundation, the cash prize payout for their annual "Best of Festival" Jubilee Award is being upped to more than $101,000, giving it the top rank for cash prizes among film festivals worldwide. In addition, it is expected that other cash, product and service related prizes will bring the total value of awards for the next SAICFF in excess of $200,000...

Phillips noted, "We at the SAICFF are endeavoring to spearhead this reformation by giving the largest cash prize award in the world to our 'Best of Festival' Winner—to reward that filmmaker who best communicates a Christian worldview with artistic excellence through their work. Because a private foundation has chosen to invest, the future of Christian film making in America, the SAICFF is able to offer independant Christian film makers a signifigant incentive."

"Our mission is not to infiltrate Hollywood, nor merely to temper its distasteful agenda," Phillips said, "but to replace it altogether. We are about the business of building a replacement industry—one that is distinctively Christian in message and methodology. This world class grand prize sends a message that Christians are serious about investing in those independent Christian filmmakers who are willing to work outside of Hollywood, and to produce competitive films of technical excellence, with a presuppositionally biblical message."