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Juli Miller, Post-Production Manager

Recognizing Our Post-Production Manager, Juli Miller

May 2, 2017

Though we are a few months late in doing so, it is a pleasure to formally welcome to our staff Juli Miller. She has an enviable record as a journalist and business development specialist and has been a dear friend for many years. Her volunteer work with our film has been too long unrecognized and…

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Kevin Ekvall, Director

Director Ekvall Sees Common Trait in Courageous Lead Characters of His Two Films

April 28, 2017

  April 8, 2017… Jet lag is keeping me up so I thought I’d jot down something on my mind today. Yesterday marked 23 years since the beginning of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and tomorrow marks 72 years from the day Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged. Both dates, April 7 and April 9, tragic days. Both days,…

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Gary Blount, Kevin Ekvall and film studies coordinator David George answer audience questions after Southern Adventist University screening.

Back to the Beginning at Southern Adventist University

April 27, 2017

Kevin Ekvall studied making films at Southern Adventist University in Chattanooga, Tennessee. So did the three other key members of the production crew for Come Before Winter: Tanya Musgrave, Theo Brown, and Melody George.   A day before the April 22 screening of the film on campus, Kevin and producer Gary Blount met with current…

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Naomi Sloan (Wood River Jewish Community), Pastor Stephen McCandless (Seventh-day Adventist Church), Reverend Gerald Reinke (Valley of Peace Lutheran Church), and Juli Miller (Seventh-day Adventist Church) gathered to plan Bonhoeffer event for Sun Valley area of Idaho.

Audience Ponders Lessons for Self at Interfaith Sponsored Screening

April 20, 2017

Slack season in a ski resort town when many locals have left for a beach or desert. Monday night after Easter weekend and the 8th day of Passover. Not a good time to schedule a new event, especially one that has to do with a World War II Christian martyr.   But three faith groups…

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Easter Preview for Idaho Premiere

April 17, 2017

The docudrama Come Before Winter  will have its Northwest premiere at 7:00 p.m. Monday, April 17, at the Wood River High School Performing Arts Theater at the Community Campus. It describes the final chapter in the life of Bonhoeffer, who was executed at age 39 for his resistance to the Nazi regime. For more information, check…

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