St. Paul's Lutheran School hosted the second local screening of our documentary The Phoenix: Hope Is Rising. Melany Jackson, founder of C-U at Home, and one of the people whom the film is about, came [...]
Phil Gioja partnered with Isaac Musgrave to produce a feature length documentary titled The Phoenix: Hope is Rising, a film about a scrappy start-up ministry reaching out to the homeless in the Champaign-Urbana area. This [...]
Isaac Musgrave interviews Melany Jackson of C-U at Home on the steps of what could have been a new women's shelter. Phil and Isaac conduct an interview for their C-U at Home [...]
We just finished a new promo video for Hooves of Hope in Potomac IL. I enjoyed working with Mary and Stan Remole because their story illustrates what God can do with a little creativity and [...]
Many of you will remember that last year I participated in an event in Champaign to help raise funds for an organization that reaches out to the homeless in that area. It was a [...]
A couple of years ago, I produced a video for a missions group about the need for common language Bibles in remote regions of the Philippines. The video was successful in communicating this need, and [...]
We were very excited to discover today that we won an honorable mention for Best Documentary for our film From Chains to Freedom at the International Christian Film Festival in Orlando this past week!
I survived one night in a Samsung refrigerator box on the corner of Chester and Neil in Champaign. I had a great time hanging out with the guys on my corner and friends [...]
Changing troubled lives doesn't have to be complicated. Sometimes all it takes is a couple of worn-out horses, a man and woman willing to get their hands dirty together, and Jesus. That's all it took [...]
One more new video preview today! This one is personal to Phil because he's known Mark for several years through church and school connections. Not too long ago Mark went through a major bump in [...]
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From Chains to Freedom - New Video Series from Washington State! 'From Chains to Freedom' features ex-convicts who’ve come through the Washington State prison system. Many of them were at McNeil Island Prison, [...]
As people, we face trials and challenges in life that can be very difficult, frightening, and debilitating. That's why we've created a collection of short documentary films, titled "Fragile: Finding Jesus in Broken People", that [...]
I recently did a video project for Restoration Urban Ministries, to help illustrate their story in a great format so they can share it online, on TV, and on DVD. Restoration is a homeless shelter, [...]
