There are a lot of church conferences to choose from today, but there’s one that’s designed and produced exclusively for church filmmakers about church filmmaking.
If filmmaking is your gig, Church Production’s Capture Summit is your thing.
On location in Atlanta
The sixth annual Capture Summit is in the ideal location at the right time this year. Georgia is now the No. 1 U.S. state for professional film production, and its capital, Atlanta, home to some of the most film production-intensive churches in the country, like the broadcast campus for 12Stone Church, where Capture takes place this year on July 25-27. The event will be held at the church's John C. Maxwell Leadership Center. Filmmakers who attend will spend three days learning from the country’s top church filmmakers, professional Christian filmmakers producing work around the globe, and top Atlanta-based Christian film production company leaders, as well as speakers and experts from all around the country.
Each speaker, educational session, tour, presentation, keynote, sponsor, and product demonstration—every element of the three-day event—is about the art of church filmmaking and the purpose behind it. Each topic, too, has been carefully curated by Church Production staff in tandem with the input of a church filmmaker advisory board to give attendees the knowledge they need to move forward, excel, and create even more powerful films for their churches than they did the year before.
Capture 2022 at 12Stone includes behind-the-scenes tours of the Sugarloaf campus facility led by top creative directors and filmmakers on staff at the church. During these on-site tours highlighting the control room as well as FOH audio, attendees will have the opportunity to move about in the church’s actual production spaces and ask questions of the 12Stone film team members and production staff that work in these areas. The information attendees gather will serve as idea-generators for how to use their own tools, resources, and production spaces to fuller advantage when they return to their home churches.
A snapshot sampling — 25+ speakers and 40+ sessions
Examples of technical skills improvement sessions at Capture 2022 include a two-hour workshop on cinematography led by filmmaker Josh Etheridge, film team lead at Blue Ridge Community Church in Forest, Virginia, and owner of Josh Etheridge Films, a full-service commercial production company.
Another skills session on the schedule is “Mixing Music for Live Streaming and Broadcast” with instructor Dave Stagl, mixing engineer for WorshipRecording.com and former audio director for Atlanta’s North Point Community Church. Stagl brings to Capture his mixing experience for professional Christian bands like Jesus Culture and artists Lecrae, Chris Tomlin, and Kristian Stanfill.
Nuts-and-bolts technical breakout sessions cover topics such as green screen basics and the essential elements of color correction, while a hybrid breakout session/control room tour, “A Whole New Era of Technology and Production Workflow,” led by 12Stone’s lead production director, Taylor Davis, and Jeremy Bagwell, 12Stone video director, will take a deep-dive view into how post-pandemic ministry is opening doors for live production moving forward.
Other sessions touch on the generation of ideas that must start off any film project, such as international Christian filmmaker Phil Cooke’s “Ideas on a Deadline: How to Be Creative When the Clock is Ticking,” based on the Burbank, California-based film director’s latest book. The book will also be available at Capture Summit.
12Stone’s creative and programming staff will lead a class on “Rethinking the Church Experience,” which will delve into service programming in today's reality, as well as flex spaces for flexible ministry.
Workshops at Capture 2022 will include Atlanta-based Christian filmmaker Bryce McNabb’s “Creating a Moment of Encounter,” on how to film a story with authenticity, as well as “Building a Storytelling Ministry Team,” touching on how to find team members and fill critical roles and processes needed to facilitate creative film production.
More information on the lineup of sessions, speakers, workshops, and hands-on demos can be found at https://capturesummit.com/speakers-2/.
Church Filmcraft Festival competition – screening + awards
Capture Summit was the catalyst for the Church Filmcraft Festival, a film festival that features church content, solely, and celebrates the work of church film teams and their volunteers.
Film festival categories reflect professional film-standard categories—Best Animation, Best Audio, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Lighting, Best Script, Best VFX, and Best Overall, to name a few.
Some of the country’s top church filmmakers and content creators will serve as this year’s judges, including Lancaster Bible College Chair of the Communication & Media Arts Department, Ryan Geesaman; 12Stone Church Creative Director, Timmy Allen, also an animator at Atlanta’s Film Riot production services; Andre Jones, owner and filmmaker at AJ Production in Atlanta; Sarah Fishbein, video director at Hope Community Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, and producer at Raleigh-based Crazy Duck Productions; Bryan Bailey, director of media at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas; and Don Smith, executive director of creative ministries at Raleigh’s Hope Community Church.
Capture attendees will sit in on a Church Filmcraft Festival viewing session on Monday, July 25, from 7-9 p.m. in the auditorium at 12Stone Church. The viewing will include a special panel discussion with festival judges and submitting filmmakers. Then on Tuesday, July 26, at 4:30 p.m., winners of the Church Filmcraft Festival Awards will be announced and recognized.
Find clips of this year’s Church Filmcraft Festival submissions, last year’s winners, and an orange "Submit Your Video" button at https://capturesummit.com/filmcraft-2/.
Worship time + professional keynote presentations
The theme is filmmaking, but the message is ministry. So on days two and three, around the intensive learning, hands-on sessions, team-building training, and professional product demos, Capture Summit 2022 offers special keynote sessions and worship gatherings, featuring 12Stone’s praise and worship band.
The keynote speaker for Tuesday, July 26, is Dave Clark, media pastor and director at Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas. His topic: “A Commitment to Your Calling.”
On Wednesday, July 27, the keynote presentation is “How Media Production Can Help Accomplish the Bigger Ministry & Missions Picture,” from I Am Second’s John Humphrey, vice president and executive producer. I Am Second is a nonprofit film organization that produces video content telling “real stories of real people who are living for something greater than themselves,” with Jesus being first, people second. Their content has been viewed over 150 million times by people in 230 countries or territories.
Serious backing
Capture Summit 2022 is brought to life with the help of premier sponsors—Canon, Music Matters, and Sony. Gold sponsors are Firefly LED, JVC, Grass Valley, and WorshipHouse Media. Silver sponsors include 76 Media Systems, BirdDog, B&H Photo Video, Cinamaker, Chrosziel, Clark, DigitalGlue, EditShare, Hitachi, Lectrosonics, Netgear, Ross, SNS, Soundproof Windows, Tascam, and US Broadcast Distribution.
Registration sponsorship is from Music Matters, the Church Filmcraft Festival is sponsored by Canon and WorshipHouse Media, the Demo sponsor is DigitalGlue, the Tours sponsor is Clark, and Supporting Sponsors include ATL Church Creatives and Blackmagic Design.
Learn more about Capture Summit 2022’s sponsors at https://capturesummit.com/sponsors-2/.
Check in daily for Capture Summit 2022 updates at https://capturesummit.com/.
And find church filmmaking-specific content every day here on https://www.churchproduction.com/.
