Content University

Podcast Guesting: Set Yourself Up as a Desirable Guest

Jaclyn Whitt

Jaclyn Whitt teaches how to become a stronger podcast guest by clarifying your personal brand, identifying the message or expertise you want to be known for, and pitching yourself to shows that align with your story. She also covers authentic conversation, sharing personal stories, listening well, respecting speaking time, and presenting yourself as a valuable and engaging guest rather than simply promoting a product or career.

2025

Make Movies That Make Money

David Heavener

Veteran filmmaker and distributor David Heavener shares lessons from producing, financing, marketing, and distributing dozens of independent films. He emphasizes starting with a strong concept and genre, understanding how to pitch and package a project, working creatively within limited resources, and relying on God’s direction rather than waiting for ideal circumstances or a large budget.

2025

How to Optimize Your Green Screen: Lighting, Workflow, and Post

Wes and Amanda Llewellyn

Wes and Amanda Llewellyn demonstrate practical green-screen techniques drawn from years of production experience, showing how lighting, camera choices, tracking, background plates, and on-set planning affect the final composite. They also walk through real examples of keying and post-production, including difficult composites, camera movement, rotoscoping, and tools in After Effects and DaVinci Resolve.

2025

Fund, Film, and Fill the Seats: Content Marketing Strategies for Christian Filmmakers

Shane Reitzammer

Shane Reitzammer teaches Christian filmmakers how to begin building an audience before a project is finished—or even funded. He covers audience personas, branding, social media, marketing funnels, crowdfunding and funding strategies, and ways to turn early followers into an engaged fan base that can support a film through production and release.

2025

Starting Your Filmmaking Career

John Clay Burnett

John Clay Burnett shares practical lessons from two decades of working in production, emphasizing that filmmaking careers are built through hands-on experience, strong relationships, reliability, and a willingness to start small. He covers the filmmaking process, serving clients and audiences well, building a good reputation, creating work that demonstrates your skills, networking, and trusting God to open doors that may not come in the way you expect.

2025

The Business of Film

Micah Lyons

Micah Lyons gives filmmakers a practical look at the business side of producing independent movies, including choosing marketable concepts, working within realistic budgets, raising investor money, packaging projects, attaching recognizable talent, and preparing professional offers. He also explains international licensing, territorial distribution, pre-sales, intellectual-property rights, and why producers should think about a film’s ability to earn money before production begins.

2025

Pitching Your Project

Karen Schaefer

Karen Schaefer teaches writers and filmmakers how to build a stronger project pitch by starting with personal passion and purpose, then shaping that into a clear logline, pitch structure, and visual pitch deck. She also covers researching producers, matching a project to the right company and budget level, making meaningful industry connections, and preparing additional ideas when a producer asks, “What else are you working on?”

2025

Virtual Production: An Introduction to In-Camera VFX

Dane Noble

Dane Noble introduces filmmakers to virtual production using LED walls, live camera tracking, and real-time rendering through Unreal Engine. Drawing from his work as Virtual Production Supervisor at Capernaum Studios, he explains pre-visualization, parallax, physical and digital set integration, lighting, tracking systems, equipment, and practical considerations for creating convincing in-camera visual effects.

2024

Crafting a Marketable Film

Desmond Denton

Desmond Denton teaches filmmakers how to think about distribution, audience, marketing, and impact while a project is still being developed. He explores theatrical, streaming, ad-supported, community, and alternative distribution opportunities, while emphasizing niche audiences, strategic partnerships, audience-building, and packaging a film in ways that reduce risk for investors and distributors.

2024

Pitching Your Script

LeAnn Barna and Ariel Fernald

LeAnn Barna and Ariel Fernald teach screenwriters and filmmakers how to present a project clearly and efficiently to producers, executives, and potential partners. They cover elevator pitches, titles, format and genre, comparable projects, existing intellectual property, pitch decks, audience and market considerations, and how to communicate enough of the story to generate interest without trying to explain the entire screenplay.

2024

Who Am I? Building Character from the Inside Out

John Goad

Actor and coach John Goad explores deep character development by teaching actors to understand how thoughts, emotions, beliefs, relationships, backstory, and behavior shape a role. He also emphasizes the importance of knowing your own identity in Christ so you can enter difficult characters truthfully without losing your personal and spiritual foundation.

2025

The Actor’s Toolkit: Professionalism and Longevity

Roni Hummel

Roni Hummel teaches actors how to present themselves professionally and build a career designed to last. She covers essential materials such as headshots, resumes, and demo reels, along with audition setup, self-tapes, agents, casting platforms, IMDb, ongoing training, and the importance of perseverance, professionalism, and faith throughout an acting career.

2025

Life Bringers: An Introduction to the World of Voice Acting

Ray Hurd

Ray Hurd introduces the broad world of voice acting, from commercials, animation, anime, games, audiobooks, trailers, e-learning, and narration to the growing opportunities for working from home. He explains the difference between simply announcing and truly acting with your voice, while also covering training, demos, agents, home recording, online work, auditions, and the perseverance required to build a career.

2025

Body Language 101: The Ultimate Show, Don’t Tell

Tara Johnson

Tara Johnson teaches actors, directors, writers, and voice performers how body language communicates emotion before a character ever speaks. She breaks down facial expressions, posture, movement, vocal effects, and physical signals of emotions such as grief, happiness, and anger, showing how stronger nonverbal choices can make performances and storytelling more believable.

2025

Self-Tape Secrets for Every Actor

Benjamin Dane and Kimberly Williams

Benjamin Dane and Kimberly Williams teach actors how to approach self-taped auditions professionally, from training and marketing materials to camera setup, framing, sound, readers, slates, and submission. They also discuss agents, reels, personal branding, audition preparation, callbacks, deadlines, and the importance of treating acting as both a craft and a business.

2025

Your Acting Coach: Coaching for the Mind, Body, and Spirit

Christian Lewis

Christian Lewis shares practical and faith-centered guidance for actors pursuing a career in film, drawing from his own experience in Hollywood and faith-based productions. He focuses on mindset, developing your craft, creating your own opportunities, professionalism, character, knowing your worth, and being led by the Holy Spirit on and off set.

2025

Authenticity and Quality in Dialects: Practical Tools for Actors

Annaliese Bauer

Annaliese Bauer teaches actors a practical framework for learning and maintaining believable dialects. Using Australian speech as a case study, she covers sound patterns, mouth placement, listening techniques, live coaching, and ways to avoid exaggerated or distracting performances.

2025

Missionary to Hollywood: Finding Your Mission Field in the Entertainment Industry

Rachel Daigh

Rachel Daigh shares her journey as an actress and writer and how God reshaped her understanding of what it means to serve Him in Hollywood. After believing she needed to leave secular projects for exclusively faith-based work, she came to recognize the entertainment industry itself as a mission field, learning to follow God’s open and closed doors, remain grounded in her faith, and bring the light of Christ into the relationships and opportunities already in front of her.

2024

Not of This Hollywood: Choosing Christ Over Career

Christian Lewis

Christian Lewis shares his journey from church and performing arts training into professional acting, including opportunities in television and film that brought him into contact with major Hollywood figures. He explains how growing conviction led him to reevaluate the roles he accepted, surrender his acting career to God, confront the ways career success had become an idol, and ultimately prioritize obedience, identity in Christ, and kingdom purpose over industry advancement.

2024

Demo Reels: Avoid These 12 Mistakes

Venus Monique

Venus Monique explains how actors can create stronger demo reels by avoiding common mistakes that distract casting directors from the performance itself. Drawing from her experience reviewing actors’ reels while casting a film, she covers reel length, scene selection, audio consistency, intros and transitions, montages, voiceover material, direct submission links, and practical ways actors can obtain better footage for future reels.

2024

Following Nehemiah's Business Plan For Your Acting Business | Part 2

Anita Cordell

Anita Cordell continues using Nehemiah’s example to help actors build their careers with perseverance, excellence, wise planning, and strong relationships. She discusses overcoming obstacles, managing contacts and finances, developing multiple income streams, finding auditions and opportunities, understanding union and non-union work, handling competition and rejection, and actively pursuing work rather than simply waiting for opportunities to appear.

2024

Following Nehemiah's Business Plan For Your Acting Business | Part 1

Anita Cordell

Anita Cordell uses the biblical story of Nehemiah as a practical framework for helping actors approach their careers as both a God-given calling and a real business. She covers discovering your deeper “why,” establishing personal boundaries, seeking accountability, budgeting for an acting career, setting achievable goals, preparing professionally for set, and developing the character and discipline needed for long-term growth.

2024

Directing and Producing Independent Films: Practical Lessons from the Field

Panel

A panel of experienced directors and producers offers practical guidance for developing, funding, producing, and distributing independent films. The discussion also examines leadership, collaboration, perseverance, audience awareness, and maintaining a Christ-centered approach to filmmaking.

2025

Body Language 101: The Ultimate Show, Don’t Tell

Tara Johnson

Tara Johnson teaches actors, directors, writers, and voice performers how body language communicates emotion before a character ever speaks. She breaks down facial expressions, posture, movement, vocal effects, and physical signals of emotions such as grief, happiness, and anger, showing how stronger nonverbal choices can make performances and storytelling more believable.

2025

Directing and Producing Independent Films: Practical Lessons from the Field

Panel

A panel of experienced directors and producers offers practical guidance for developing, funding, producing, and distributing independent films. The discussion also examines leadership, collaboration, perseverance, audience awareness, and maintaining a Christ-centered approach to filmmaking.

2025

Make Movies That Make Money

David Heavener

Veteran filmmaker and distributor David Heavener shares lessons from producing, financing, marketing, and distributing dozens of independent films. He emphasizes starting with a strong concept and genre, understanding how to pitch and package a project, working creatively within limited resources, and relying on God’s direction rather than waiting for ideal circumstances or a large budget.

2025

Fund, Film, and Fill the Seats: Content Marketing Strategies for Christian Filmmakers

Shane Reitzammer

Shane Reitzammer teaches Christian filmmakers how to begin building an audience before a project is finished—or even funded. He covers audience personas, branding, social media, marketing funnels, crowdfunding and funding strategies, and ways to turn early followers into an engaged fan base that can support a film through production and release.

2025

Starting Your Filmmaking Career

John Clay Burnett

John Clay Burnett shares practical lessons from two decades of working in production, emphasizing that filmmaking careers are built through hands-on experience, strong relationships, reliability, and a willingness to start small. He covers the filmmaking process, serving clients and audiences well, building a good reputation, creating work that demonstrates your skills, networking, and trusting God to open doors that may not come in the way you expect.

2025

The Business of Film

Micah Lyons

Micah Lyons gives filmmakers a practical look at the business side of producing independent movies, including choosing marketable concepts, working within realistic budgets, raising investor money, packaging projects, attaching recognizable talent, and preparing professional offers. He also explains international licensing, territorial distribution, pre-sales, intellectual-property rights, and why producers should think about a film’s ability to earn money before production begins.

2025

The Need for Hard Faith Films: Honest Stories for a Broken World

Spencer Folmar

Spencer Folmar explains the vision behind Hard Faith—Christian films that honestly portray sin, suffering, addiction, abuse, doubt, and other difficult realities while still pointing toward redemption and hope. Drawing from films such as Generational Sins and Shooting Heroin, he discusses reaching audiences beyond the traditional faith-based market, maintaining authenticity, collaborating with other filmmakers, financing projects, and navigating distribution for mature Christian stories.

2024

Crafting a Marketable Film

Desmond Denton

Desmond Denton teaches filmmakers how to think about distribution, audience, marketing, and impact while a project is still being developed. He explores theatrical, streaming, ad-supported, community, and alternative distribution opportunities, while emphasizing niche audiences, strategic partnerships, audience-building, and packaging a film in ways that reduce risk for investors and distributors.

2024

Writing for the Screen: Craft, Calling, and a Sustainable Career

Panel

Experienced screenwriters discuss the creative, professional, and spiritual realities of writing for film and media. The panel covers rejection, collaboration, representation, commissioned writing, productivity, feedback, and faithfully developing a long-term writing career.

2025

Connecting the Plot Dots: Story Development for Feature Screenplays

Jaclyn Whitt

Jaclyn Whitt teaches screenwriters how to structure a feature screenplay around a clear character journey, strong turning points, and purposeful pacing. She breaks down the roles of Act 1, Act 2, the midpoint, and Act 3 while showing how goals, obstacles, character flaws, stakes, and story world work together to keep an audience engaged.

2025

Short Script Writing and Television Plot Development

LeAnn Barna

LeAnn Barna teaches practical story-development principles for both short films and television, drawing from her experience in studio development, producing, and script analysis. She covers writing concise, memorable shorts, using festivals strategically, developing television concepts and pilots, understanding serialized and procedural formats, building strong characters, and creating story worlds with long-term audience appeal.

2025

Pitching Your Project

Karen Schaefer

Karen Schaefer teaches writers and filmmakers how to build a stronger project pitch by starting with personal passion and purpose, then shaping that into a clear logline, pitch structure, and visual pitch deck. She also covers researching producers, matching a project to the right company and budget level, making meaningful industry connections, and preparing additional ideas when a producer asks, “What else are you working on?”

2025

Polish Your Script

Jaclyn Whitt

Jaclyn Whitt teaches screenwriters how to strengthen a script for competitions, pitching, and production by improving formatting, readability, dialogue, pacing, character connection, and overall professionalism. She also discusses knowing your audience, understanding script options and purchases, eliminating unnecessary dialogue and action, and making every page clear, engaging, and easy for a reader to visualize.

2025

Pitching Your Script

LeAnn Barna and Ariel Fernald

LeAnn Barna and Ariel Fernald teach screenwriters and filmmakers how to present a project clearly and efficiently to producers, executives, and potential partners. They cover elevator pitches, titles, format and genre, comparable projects, existing intellectual property, pitch decks, audience and market considerations, and how to communicate enough of the story to generate interest without trying to explain the entire screenplay.

2024

Picking Your Best Pathway to Publication

Kathy Green

Kathy Green compares self-publishing, hybrid publishing, and traditional publishing to help authors determine which path best fits their goals. Drawing from her experience as an author and literary agent, she explains query letters, book proposals, finding an agent, publishing timelines, marketing expectations, contracts, royalties, editing, and the importance of building an engaged platform.

The Law of Possession: Keep Knocking

Fred Mosley

Fred Mosley teaches what he calls the “law of possession,” describing spiritual possession as receiving and walking in what God has already promised. Using Scripture, personal stories, and a courtroom analogy, he encourages believers to recognize what God has spoken, continue praying, speak in agreement with God’s Word, give thanks, and persist until those promises are realized.

2025

Strategies the Enemy Uses Against Us—and the Word That Sets Us Free

Kim Crabill

Kim Crabill teaches believers how to recognize spiritual and mental battles and respond by grounding themselves in Scripture rather than fear, deception, or cultural messages. Using a three-step framework—recognize the lie, reject it, and replace it with God’s truth—she encourages Christian creatives to strengthen their minds, know the Word deeply, and use their own struggles and healing to become voices of hope for others.

2024

The Law of Direction: Trusting God’s Guidance and Provision

Fred Mosley

Fred Mosley teaches what he calls the “law of direction,” emphasizing that God gives specific guidance and that provision is often connected to obediently following that direction. Using Proverbs 3 and the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 17, along with personal testimony from his own media journey, he encourages believers to trust God’s instructions even when they do not seem logical.

2024

Trust and Obey: Letting God Fight the Battle

Venus Monique

Venus Monique uses the story of King Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 20 to encourage believers to pray, wait for God’s direction, and obey even when His instructions seem unusual or require doing nothing. She connects the passage to creative callings, emphasizing the peace that comes from hearing God clearly rather than trying to force opportunities in your own strength.

2024

Podcasting Launchpad

Scott Belin

Scott Belin gives an introductory overview of launching and producing a podcast, covering audio and video equipment, microphones, cameras, lighting, recording, editing, remote interviews, and distribution. He emphasizes strong audio, consistent episode production, thoughtful presentation, and choosing tools that fit your budget and goals rather than assuming a professional podcast requires an expensive studio.

2025

Podcast Guesting: Set Yourself Up as a Desirable Guest

Jaclyn Whitt

Jaclyn Whitt teaches how to become a stronger podcast guest by clarifying your personal brand, identifying the message or expertise you want to be known for, and pitching yourself to shows that align with your story. She also covers authentic conversation, sharing personal stories, listening well, respecting speaking time, and presenting yourself as a valuable and engaging guest rather than simply promoting a product or career.

2025

How to Optimize Your Green Screen: Lighting, Workflow, and Post

Wes and Amanda Llewellyn

Wes and Amanda Llewellyn demonstrate practical green-screen techniques drawn from years of production experience, showing how lighting, camera choices, tracking, background plates, and on-set planning affect the final composite. They also walk through real examples of keying and post-production, including difficult composites, camera movement, rotoscoping, and tools in After Effects and DaVinci Resolve.

2025

Podcast Guesting: Set Yourself Up as a Desirable Guest

Jaclyn Whitt

Jaclyn Whitt teaches how to become a stronger podcast guest by clarifying your personal brand, identifying the message or expertise you want to be known for, and pitching yourself to shows that align with your story. She also covers authentic conversation, sharing personal stories, listening well, respecting speaking time, and presenting yourself as a valuable and engaging guest rather than simply promoting a product or career.

2025

Fund, Film, and Fill the Seats: Content Marketing Strategies for Christian Filmmakers

Shane Reitzammer

Shane Reitzammer teaches Christian filmmakers how to begin building an audience before a project is finished—or even funded. He covers audience personas, branding, social media, marketing funnels, crowdfunding and funding strategies, and ways to turn early followers into an engaged fan base that can support a film through production and release.

2025

Crafting a Marketable Film

Desmond Denton

Desmond Denton teaches filmmakers how to think about distribution, audience, marketing, and impact while a project is still being developed. He explores theatrical, streaming, ad-supported, community, and alternative distribution opportunities, while emphasizing niche audiences, strategic partnerships, audience-building, and packaging a film in ways that reduce risk for investors and distributors.

2024

The Law of Possession: Keep Knocking

Fred Mosley

Fred Mosley teaches what he calls the “law of possession,” describing spiritual possession as receiving and walking in what God has already promised. Using Scripture, personal stories, and a courtroom analogy, he encourages believers to recognize what God has spoken, continue praying, speak in agreement with God’s Word, give thanks, and persist until those promises are realized.

2025

The Five Ps: Walking in Your God-Given Calling

Kim Crabil

In this Content 2025 keynote, Kim Crabil encourages Christian filmmakers and media professionals to confidently follow the calling God has placed on their lives. Using Scripture, personal stories, and lessons from her own ministry, she presents a practical framework built around five “Ps”: understanding that you are created on purpose, trusting God’s plan, remaining attentive to the path directly before you, allowing challenges to develop your potential, and depending on God’s power. Crabill addresses comparison, distraction, fear of failure, personal healing, and the temptation to give up when creative or ministry work becomes difficult. She reminds believers that obedience matters more than achieving a perfect result and challenges Christian creatives to remain present, embrace God’s grace, and faithfully serve the people He places around them.

2025

Contending for Revival: A Call to Christian Creatives

Tracey Mitchell

In this Content 2025 keynote, Tracy Mitchell challenges Christian filmmakers and media professionals to pursue genuine spiritual revival rather than settling for comfortable or superficial expressions of faith. Drawing from Jesus calming the storm and delivering the demonized man in the region of the Gadarenes, she examines the faith required to follow God into unfamiliar territory and accept the disruption that can accompany His work. Mitchell also discusses the responsibility of Christian creatives to represent the supernatural dimensions of Scripture honestly instead of limiting their work to culturally comfortable themes. Through personal testimony and examples from historic revival movements, she emphasizes prayer, spiritual hunger, perseverance, and intentional intercession. The session concludes with a charge for media professionals to contend for revival in their lives, creative callings, cities, and nations.

2025

Hearing God’s Voice: Guidance for Christian Creatives

Carl Wesley Anderson

In this Content 2025 keynote, filmmaker and teacher Carl Wesley Anderson explores practical, biblical ways believers can recognize the voice of God. Sharing his testimony of facing life-threatening cancer, Anderson explains how seeking God’s guidance influenced his medical decisions and led to a new calling as a “media missionary.” He describes how the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit communicate through Scripture, inner impressions, providential circumstances, media, spiritual gifts, and other means. Anderson also discusses the development of his Love Speaks documentary series, which examines examples of God speaking throughout Christian history. The session combines teaching, film clips, personal stories, and a group exercise designed to help attendees practice listening prayer while testing what they receive against Scripture and the character of God.

2025

Dream Big: Turning God-Given Vision Into Action

Adnan Maqsood

Adnan Maqsood encourages Christian creatives to pursue the dreams, gifts, and ideas God has placed within them with confidence, consistency, hard work, and faith. Drawing from his own journey in ministry and television, he emphasizes overcoming self-doubt, taking action, networking intentionally, trusting the Lord, and refusing to let rejection or comparison keep a calling from moving forward.

2024

Know Your Why: Identity, Calling, and Faithfulness

Michelle Shields

Michelle Shields challenges Christian creatives to understand why God has placed them where they are and to seek His purpose above their own expectations. Drawing from her career in technology, personal testimony, and Scripture, she emphasizes identity in Christ, trusting God’s preparation, being salt and light in your current mission field, persevering through uncertainty, and faithfully stewarding every opportunity God provides.

2024

Faith, Discipline, and Perseverance: An Interview with Tim Shields

Tim Shields

Tim Shields shares his journey from coming to Christ as a teenager to decades of ministry and media leadership, explaining how daily meditation on Scripture has shaped his character, calling, and endurance. Drawing especially from Joshua and James, he discusses overcoming fear, developing spiritual discipline, persevering through long seasons, avoiding complaint, and remaining faithful to what God has called you to do.

2024

Grow Through It: Finding Purpose in Difficult Seasons

Kim Crabill

Kim Crabill encourages believers not simply to “get through” difficult seasons, but to allow God to use them for growth, healing, and preparation. Drawing from the Book of Joel and her own testimony, she emphasizes self-examination, Christian community, God’s mercy, repentance, forgiveness, and allowing personal brokenness to become a source of hope for others.

2024

For Such a Time as This: Israel, Obedience, and Media Mission

Joshua and Caleb Colson

Joshua and Caleb Colson, hosts of Our Jewish Roots and leaders with Zola Levitt Ministries, share how God used years of preparation and obedience to position them for ministry in Israel during the October 7 attacks. They discuss Israel’s biblical significance, trusting God’s timing, communicating a message of repentance, and using media to bring truth, hope, and the gospel of Yeshua to people during a moment of crisis.

2024

Missionary to Hollywood: Finding Your Mission Field in the Entertainment Industry

Rachel Daigh

Rachel Daigh shares her journey as an actress and writer and how God reshaped her understanding of what it means to serve Him in Hollywood. After believing she needed to leave secular projects for exclusively faith-based work, she came to recognize the entertainment industry itself as a mission field, learning to follow God’s open and closed doors, remain grounded in her faith, and bring the light of Christ into the relationships and opportunities already in front of her.

2024

Not of This Hollywood: Choosing Christ Over Career

Christian Lewis

Christian Lewis shares his journey from church and performing arts training into professional acting, including opportunities in television and film that brought him into contact with major Hollywood figures. He explains how growing conviction led him to reevaluate the roles he accepted, surrender his acting career to God, confront the ways career success had become an idol, and ultimately prioritize obedience, identity in Christ, and kingdom purpose over industry advancement.

2024

Discover the Power of Your Story: Inner Healing and Growth

Kim Crabill

Kim Crabill helps participants examine the hurts, burdens, and experiences that have shaped their lives and consider how God can bring healing and purpose from them. Centered on Matthew 11:28, the workshop encourages honesty, trust in God, spiritual healing, and learning how personal brokenness can become part of a meaningful testimony and ministry.

2025

Developing the Leader Within You

Bill Goodwin

Bill Goodwin teaches that effective leadership begins with learning to lead yourself and defines leadership fundamentally as influence. Drawing from his experience in ministry, consulting, and Maxwell Leadership, he explores priorities, problem-solving, working with others, and intentional personal growth as practical ways to increase leadership effectiveness and impact.

2025

Know Your Why: Identity, Calling, and Faithfulness

Michelle Shields

Michelle Shields challenges Christian creatives to understand why God has placed them where they are and to seek His purpose above their own expectations. Drawing from her career in technology, personal testimony, and Scripture, she emphasizes identity in Christ, trusting God’s preparation, being salt and light in your current mission field, persevering through uncertainty, and faithfully stewarding every opportunity God provides.

2024

Equipping People to Pursue Their Calling Without Compromising Their Soul

Tracy Edwards

Tracy Edwards teaches that fulfilling God’s calling begins with becoming the person He has designed you to be, not merely accomplishing a particular career or ministry goal. Using Habakkuk as a framework, she explores identity, repentance, grace, hearing God, writing the vision, developing biblical core values, strengthening character, and establishing boundaries before moments of pressure or compromise arise.

2024

The Five Ps: Walking in Your God-Given Calling

Kim Crabil

In this Content 2025 keynote, Kim Crabil encourages Christian filmmakers and media professionals to confidently follow the calling God has placed on their lives. Using Scripture, personal stories, and lessons from her own ministry, she presents a practical framework built around five “Ps”: understanding that you are created on purpose, trusting God’s plan, remaining attentive to the path directly before you, allowing challenges to develop your potential, and depending on God’s power. Crabill addresses comparison, distraction, fear of failure, personal healing, and the temptation to give up when creative or ministry work becomes difficult. She reminds believers that obedience matters more than achieving a perfect result and challenges Christian creatives to remain present, embrace God’s grace, and faithfully serve the people He places around them.

2025

Contending for Revival: A Call to Christian Creatives

Tracey Mitchell

In this Content 2025 keynote, Tracy Mitchell challenges Christian filmmakers and media professionals to pursue genuine spiritual revival rather than settling for comfortable or superficial expressions of faith. Drawing from Jesus calming the storm and delivering the demonized man in the region of the Gadarenes, she examines the faith required to follow God into unfamiliar territory and accept the disruption that can accompany His work. Mitchell also discusses the responsibility of Christian creatives to represent the supernatural dimensions of Scripture honestly instead of limiting their work to culturally comfortable themes. Through personal testimony and examples from historic revival movements, she emphasizes prayer, spiritual hunger, perseverance, and intentional intercession. The session concludes with a charge for media professionals to contend for revival in their lives, creative callings, cities, and nations.

2025

Hearing God’s Voice: Guidance for Christian Creatives

Carl Wesley Anderson

In this Content 2025 keynote, filmmaker and teacher Carl Wesley Anderson explores practical, biblical ways believers can recognize the voice of God. Sharing his testimony of facing life-threatening cancer, Anderson explains how seeking God’s guidance influenced his medical decisions and led to a new calling as a “media missionary.” He describes how the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit communicate through Scripture, inner impressions, providential circumstances, media, spiritual gifts, and other means. Anderson also discusses the development of his Love Speaks documentary series, which examines examples of God speaking throughout Christian history. The session combines teaching, film clips, personal stories, and a group exercise designed to help attendees practice listening prayer while testing what they receive against Scripture and the character of God.

2025

The Need for Hard Faith Films: Honest Stories for a Broken World

Spencer Folmar

Spencer Folmar explains the vision behind Hard Faith—Christian films that honestly portray sin, suffering, addiction, abuse, doubt, and other difficult realities while still pointing toward redemption and hope. Drawing from films such as Generational Sins and Shooting Heroin, he discusses reaching audiences beyond the traditional faith-based market, maintaining authenticity, collaborating with other filmmakers, financing projects, and navigating distribution for mature Christian stories.

2024

Know Your Why: Identity, Calling, and Faithfulness

Michelle Shields

Michelle Shields challenges Christian creatives to understand why God has placed them where they are and to seek His purpose above their own expectations. Drawing from her career in technology, personal testimony, and Scripture, she emphasizes identity in Christ, trusting God’s preparation, being salt and light in your current mission field, persevering through uncertainty, and faithfully stewarding every opportunity God provides.

2024

Faith, Discipline, and Perseverance: An Interview with Tim Shields

Tim Shields

Tim Shields shares his journey from coming to Christ as a teenager to decades of ministry and media leadership, explaining how daily meditation on Scripture has shaped his character, calling, and endurance. Drawing especially from Joshua and James, he discusses overcoming fear, developing spiritual discipline, persevering through long seasons, avoiding complaint, and remaining faithful to what God has called you to do.

2024