PANEL: THE POWER OF FAITH-BASED FILM
Saturday, August 23
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Films with morally and spiritually uplifting stories and with positive content enjoy the greatest success at the box office. Learn firsthand from filmmakers who have successfully created and released faith-based films what it takes to get your faith-based film distributed.

Moderator: Dr. Angela Corprew-Boyd, Women Empowered in the Millennium, Inc.

With a passion to see and assist God’s people to walk in their purpose, she has an anointed fervor to teach and preach the
unadulterated truth of God’s Word through two ministries God led her to start; Women Empowered in the Millennium, Inc. and Angela Corprew-Boyd Ministries, Inc. Praying that they will embrace what will escort them to their destiny, Angela’s desire is that men and women separate their pain from their pursuit of purpose while “forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before” (Phil. 3:13).  She impresses upon her listeners the need to unmask themselves and confront both who they really are and the real-life issues trying to keep them from fulfilling their dreams. Since the inception of her ministries, Angela has traveled nationally as well as to London, Africa,and Jamaica to teach and preach the gospel and to serve as a conference consultant. Her Empowered Leadership Training Sessions have allowed her to minister to deacons, pastors, and missionaries; men, women and youth; and at the annual        Virginia Union University Samuel DeWitt School of Theology Leadership Training Conference. She is also the author and publisher of Preparation for the Ultimate Purpose: If I Perish, let Me Perish, But I’m Next and Church Hurt: The Wounded Trying to Heal.

                
Shuaib Mitchell, Nubia Filmworks Nubia Filmworks, Inc. is a motion picture and television production company founded in 1994 by Washington D.C. independent filmmaker, Shaib Mitchell.  Shuaib  is a graduate of Howard University Film School (Dept. of Radio, TV and Film).  His independent film career was launched in 1992, with the one hour documentary film, Straight Up Go Go, was distributed internationally by ATA Trading Corp. and has aired numerous times on PBS Television after premiering at the Kennedy Center AFI (American Film Institute) Theater in March of 1992.  In 1999, Brother Shuaib completed a feature length screenplay entitled A Rose By Any Other Name for which he has won several awards, including the Larry Neal Writer’s Award (1999), the DC Screenwriters Competition (2000), and the Maryland State Individual Artist Award (2001). His latest faith-based film, Too Saved was awarded the prestigious Dove “Family Approved” Seal by the Dove Foundation.  The Dove Foundation awards movies and entertainment products that portray and encourage positive values that are suitable for family entertainment with their Approved Seal.