The Inheritance Project

04/12/2017

Aaaaaand ... my application to the Film Festival has been submitted! Here's the project synopsis:

"A group of college students discover they are characters in a fairytale script written 12 years prior to having met each other. As they set out to unlock the secrets the fairytale holds, they soon realize that their true identity, as well as the true nature of their reality, are far more legendary, and far more dangerous, than they could have imagined. An allegory based on Ephesians 1:18."

30/11/2017

Royalism of the Day:

"Our royal identity isn't role-play, it's REALITY! Us NOT being royalty is the fantasy!!!" - Samii Carpintero

28/11/2017

One day, The Fighter mentioned to me off-hand that Simpson University's annual short film competition, "Exposure", was kicking off in November. Initially, I considered the idea with a detached sort of interest. "Hmmm," I thought to myself. "Should I ...?" Probably not. I already had enough on my plate.

It wasn't until I went into the school office last week to ask for a project application, that I realized I was right where I should be. I looked at the requirements and due dates for the film contest, and almost gasped out loud when I saw that the deadline for submitting an application for the film festival was this Saturday, December 2nd.

There it was again! Right on time. I laughed out loud and ran to tell the Fighter she was golden.

Ever since "The Inheritance" first premiered on the first weekend of December 2005, I've been waiting every year for 12 years, halfway holding my breath, wondering when the doors of destiny would unlock once again.

So ... here goes! I'm putting in my submission by the end of this week. Wish me luck! :D :D :D

23/11/2017

THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY

Once upon a time, there was a King who loved to tell stories to his children.

One of his daughters shared her father’s love of storytelling; the other children called her the Story Girl.

Many years after the royal palace was ambushed and left in ruins, the Story Girl took up her quill and began to write a fairytale about a King who had left a vast inheritance for his children. She was far from home and could remember very little of her true identity, but the one thing she knew for certain, was that she must write.

As she wrote the story, she began to remember who she was. Even more curious was that as the years passed, "The Inheritance" became the story of her life, until one day the fairytale characters escaped from the storybook and appeared in front of her--very much human, and very much alive. Most stunning of all, was that each of these characters had the same mission in mind: Raise up a war cry and take back the Kingdom that had been stolen from them so many years before.

TO BE CONTINUED ...

18/11/2017

What do you do when your story jumps off the page and comes to life?

Twelve years ago I wrote the script for a little allegorical film project called "The Inheritance: A True Fairytale." Though my greatest hope at the time was that it would be a meaningful experience for the children involved--a Kingdom Encounter for them to discover their true spiritual identity and inheritance--I never dreamed I would watch the 20-minute montage turn into something much more than an allegorical retelling of Ephesians 1:18.

For several years after its original premiere in December of 2005, I tried multiple times to get a sequel project off the ground. I kept going back to Germany, where the first episode was filmed, in an attempt to continue what I had originally hoped would be a trilogy. For one reason or another, it never got off the ground.

Imagine my surprise when, years later, the main characters from the Story began to show up in real life on my college campus.

None of them had ever heard of or seen "The Inheritance".

None of them had known me, or each other, before our paths converged at a Bible Study group in the Fall of 2016.

And yet, almost as though it was scripted, they began talking and moving and acting just like these characters I thought I had left behind me in the Black Forest 12 years earlier.

Even more uncanny, was that when I looked back at my production journal from 2005, I realized with astonishment that certain key events that had transpired within our group over this past year ... aligned IN PERFECT OVERLAP with key events going on during the same calendar dates 12 years ago during the production of the film.

The first thing this made me think of was the main character from Cornelia Funke's book "Inkheart", who is called a Silvertongue because he has the ability to make book characters literally jump off the page and come to life simply by reading their names aloud.

Is this what was happening???

TO BE CONTINUED ...

07/12/2015

"He has set eternity in their hearts ..." - Ecclesiastes 3:11

07/12/2015

Freeze frames from the 2005 Film

07/12/2015

Photos from the 2005 Film

07/12/2015

"The Inheritance: An Unexpected Journey" is now LIVE on Amazon Kindle!!!

Emily Rose, the lonely minister’s daughter with the dark eyes, dark hair and a dark heart, has a wild Imagination that has gotten the better of her. Perhaps it was the fact that she lived too close to the Black Forest, a place of legendary myth and magic. Perhaps it was because she had spe...

06/12/2015

The back cover for "The Inheritance: An Unexpected Journey", which is visible only on the print version of the book.

06/12/2015

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe."

Ephesians 1:18-19