https://vimeo.com/335882929 https://vimeo.com/334456841 https://vimeo.com/334452470 Christ brings hope to those who are suffering, and to capture that truth, we were asked by Second Church of Christ in Danville IL to create this series of [...]
https://youtu.be/hPjSja6oEkE JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. As a JDRF Children's Congress delegate, Jackie is lobbying for continued federal funding to improve the lives of many with this [...]
Multiple System Atrophy is a devastating and quickly-developing disease with no known cause or cure. By chance Phil Gioja connected with Austin, and after learning his story Center Street Productions partnered with The MSA Coalition [...]
Our hometown of Watseka, located in Iroquois County, IL has been devastated by five major flood events in the last ten years. Residents continue to look to the Iroquois County Long Term Recovery Committee to [...]
This is the story of two completely different businesses built on solid work ethics and small-town values. Phil Gioja first met Erik Barnlund and Jamie Warmbir at the Accelerate Business Conference in Kankakee. After hearing [...]
Almost a year ago, we were feverishly editing to complete our first feature length documentary film, The Phoenix: Hope is Rising. This film highlights a homeless outreach in Champaign IL, C-U at Home. Champaign is [...]
In early 2015, Phil Gioja worked with the Iroquois County Historical Society to create a documentary on the Old Courthouse Museum, located in Watseka IL in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the building. In [...]
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 [...]
I met Karen at a Taco Bell a few months ago. I had never heard of lymphedema and didn't know Karen. But from the moment Karen came in the door, beaming from ear to ear, [...]
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 [...]
Personal post by Phil Gioja. My grandpa passed away yesterday after a long battle with cancer. This thoughtful response to a question I asked him once about getting older has always stayed with me, and [...]
Over the past several months we've been working on a nearly hour-long documentary with the Iroquois County Historical Society. When the county moved their government offices to the new courthouse in 1967, the old building [...]
Jim Knake, Manager We just completed a video for Goodwine Grain Co-op's 125th year anniversary. The Goodwine Grain Co-op has a rich history, being the oldest grain co-op in Illinois still in operation. We [...]
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!
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 [...]
Approximately 100 people came out to walk around Hessel Park during C-U at Home's One Summer Day fundraising event, raising nearly $10,000 to help provide professional case management for homeless residents. We were there to [...]
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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 [...]
