Summary

SummaryI grew up treating faith like a holiday ritual, happy to skip church after Christmas Eve. 🎄✝️ Film school in Southern California was my seminary—cinema was my god. But meeting a South Korean pastor who adopted twenty disabled orphans shattered my decorative faith. 🌏👶 His life showed me God’s real power to transform. One night, overwhelmed by a simple sermon on the cross, I wept and surrendered my pornography addiction to Jesus. 🙏📖 Then my wife alerted me on our honeymoon to the Charleston shooting—nine fellow believers dying in a Bible study. Their families, in the courtroom, forgave the shooter and even invited him to Christ. That act of grace compelled me to step into the project. 🎥❤️ Today I use film—my art—to tell God’s story of redemption, from my own brokenness to the miracle of forgiveness in Emanuel.

Brian Ivie, Director of Emanuel – A documentary about the shootings and forgiveness that took place at a church in Charleston, South Carolina 4 years ago this weekend.

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Time Chapters
 
01:15 Emmanuel film & guest intro
03:00 Early decorative faith
05:30 Encounter in Korean orphanage
08:45 Crying over the cross
11:20 Founding Arbella Studios
14:00 Learning Emanuel’s story
16:20 Families’ courtroom forgiveness
18:30 Vision for church mission