The Hills are alive with the sound of The Jesus Guy

ORF of Austria will be broadcasting The Jesus Guy Tuesday, June 2nd at
10:30pm. Anyone that receives the ORF 2 channel will be able view the
showing in the USA, 4:30pm (EMT).

5 Chances to Catch The Jesus Guy

The Spirit in the House Festival is showing not one, not two but five screenings of The Jesus Guy. All screenings will be shown at the Hennepin Ave United Methodist Church, which is located at 511 Groveland Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403. The film will be screened during the following days and times:

February 27th at 7 pm

February 28th at 4 pm

March 1st at 2:30 pm

March 4th at 8:30 pm

March 6th at 7 pm

For more information about The Spirit in the House Festival visit their website.

Tulsa United Film Festival

We're very excited that The Jesus Guy has been selected to play at the Tulsa United Film Festival. At this festival art and creativity come together to create a united film community. The film is screening Sunday, December 7th, 2008 at 6:00 PM, at the Circle Cinema. The theater is located at: 10 South Lewis Avenue Tulsa, OK.Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the Tulsa United Film Festival website. Click here to see the great line up!

TJG: Coming to South Carolina

The Jesus Guy documentary will be showing at Anderson University.  Anderson University is a Baptist school located in Anderson, South Carolina.  The film will be screened on Wednesday, February 11th at 8 PM in the Sullivan building.   The event is free and hosted by Alpha Psi Omega (theatre fraternity).

Coming To a Theater Near You!

We've had a lot of requests to screen The Jesus Guy movie, especially from cities and towns that the barefoot evangelist, "What's Your Name?" has been. If you think there might be a strong interest in your area, and know of a good independent movie house, church, college or other location that might host the film, please email us your ideas and contact names and places. We're starting to line up a tour for the movie, including a Q&A with the director, Sean Tracey.

Spirit in the House Film Festival

The Jesus Guy will be screening in Minneapolis, at the Spirit in the House Film Festival in March 2009. Check back for the film lineup on the website. Thank you Jason Carney of the Phoenix film festival for recommending The Jesus Guy to the festival. Stay tuned for more information, regarding the screening!

The Free Films Program 2008

The Jesus Guy will be shown this December as part of The Free Films Program 2008 in Australia.  The Free Films Program has bi-weekly film screenings at the Velvet Lounge.  The Jesus Guy will be shown Monday, December 22 at 8 p.m.  The Velvet Lounge is located at 639 Beaufort St., Mt Lawley, Australia.  Check out Free Films facebook group or send an email to splif_@hotmail.com for more information.

News from the LA United Film Festival

The Jesus Guy premiered in Beverly Hills at the LA United Film Festival on April 20th.  The film was in good company, with a roster of award-winning films and documentaries...some that played with The Jesus Guy at other festivals.  I finally got to see Darius Goes West, which I highly recommend, now available on DVD at dariusgoeswest.com.  Jason Connell's fun film, Strictly Background, strictlybackground.com  also played, and is one of my favorites from the festival circuit that I've seen. 

The LA festival kicked off with a great party at the Gibson Guitar Museum and showroom, with a live performance from one of the festival film's subjects, Larry Pierce, from Dirty Country, dirtycountrymovie.com.  Let's just say it wasn't politically correct, but it was hilarious.  

Perhaps the best part of the festival in LA is that a lot of my friends, who have moved there to pursue careers in commercials and movies showed up to support the movie. actor/writer, 

Brian Connors, producer/writer, 

Kim Reeves, singer/songwriter, Kelly Slattery, art director Rob Engel, actress, Lea Renay-Contarino, 

actor/comedians, 

Jim & Tamra Meskimen, 

found at: appliedsillyness.com...thanks to all for coming!

Additional Screening in Connecticut

Just in, another screening on the tour of the Connecticut Film Festival has been added.

Sunday, April 13 at 1:15pm 

Marquis 16 Theaters

100 Quarry Road

Trumbull, CT 06611

Don't forget the big event for the Connecticut Film Festival in May 20-25. Sean will be attending that screening and participating in a Q&A immediately following.

Private Screening at Seacoast Academy

At 8am Monday morning, in lieu of their normal chapel service, Seacoast Academy (private middle school in the NH Seacoast area) screened The Jesus Guy with a Q&A following. Scott Votey, Head of School, invited Sean to screen the film because Scott believed that the documentary and having Sean there to answer questions about the subject and about filmmaking would be a value to the students. Sean is also a Trustee of the Academy and has been a part of it since the very first "visioning" meeting in 2002. It was a pleasure to have a private screening of The Jesus Guy at the school. The students asked pointed questions about the life and philosophy of the barefoot evangelist and they were very curious and smart about the filmmaking process.

"Best of" Screening Last Night

Last night, The Jesus Guy screened in Manchester, NH at St. Anselm's College as part of "The Best of the New Hampshire Film Festival." Director, Sean Tracey attended the screening and once again had a great Q&A session. A special thanks to Michael Wynne for putting it together. And thanks to all those that attended. We'd love to hear your thoughts and encourage you to continue your discussion here (just click on "comment" below). Sean is happy to answer more questions!
In press matters, Sean is being interviewed today by the Midland Daily News in Midland, Michigan for a feature story about The Jesus Guy that will run this Sunday (Easter). "What's Your Name?" was in that area for a while and stayed with a family there. Stay tuned for that article. In the meantime, you can see the original story on him that ran in 2003 here.

Harvard University Divinity School Screening

What can you say when a 66-minute movie is followed by a 2-hour Question & Answer session?

Fantastic! That's what happened recently when The Jesus Guy screened at Harvard Divinity School to an enthusiastic audience of religious scholars, students, and clergy. We had to shut down the questions, because they just wouldn't stop. The audience's questions were thoughtful, incisive, deeply probing—what I had hoped for from Harvard. For me, being invited to screen at the Divinity School (see HDS link above) legitimizes the film. We've had great success and reviews from film festival audiences, but I wouldn't expect them to be as critical as the Harvard group. This cross-denominational group, it seemed from the Q&A, was surprised at the depth of the film and its subject, and was very curious to learn more about "What's Your Name's?" beliefs and background. We had a similar experience with an early screening with the Bishop and clergy from the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. At this event, the questions went well into the night and some clergy commented that they "lost sleep" over issues that this film and WYN's life illuminated, including what commitments and sacrifices they had/had not made for their own mission and the relatively comfortable lifestyle they had as priests. Thanks, Harvard!

The Jesus Guy goes to Beverly Hills

Watch out West Coast, here comes The Jesus Guy! The film will have its West Coast Premiere at the Los Angeles United Film Festival on Sunday, April 20 at 1:30pm. The screening will be held at the Fine Arts Theatre, 8556 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA. Director, Sean Tracey will be attending the event. Purchase tickets here. We are currently scheduling press interviews for Sean. If you would like to meet with him, please contact us ASAP.
A big thanks goes to Jason Connell for making this West Coast Premiere possible!

Mark Your Calendar, Arkansas!

The Jesus Guy will be joining the fabulous line up of the Ozark Foothills Film Fest. Screening on Saturday, March 29 at 6:00pm at the Independence Hall Auditorium, University of Arkansas Community College in Batesville, AR. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling 870-251-1189. Director, Sean Tracey will be attending the screening.

Touring Connecticut

The Jesus Guy is currently touring various theaters in Connecticut as part of the Connecticut Film Festival, now until May. The film will screen in May at the main event of the Connecticut Film Festival in downtown Danbury. Director, Sean Tracey will be attending the event, May 20-25. To find out where and when the film will be screening in a Connecticut town near you, click here. Screening dates continue to be added. So far the film has been at the Stamford Majestic Theater in Stamford, the Hartford Cinema City in Hartford and the Regent 8 Theaters in S. Norwalk.
Thanks goes out to Tom Carruthers for all his help and continued enthusiasm for the film!

International Premiere in Cartagena, Colombia

The film goes international, screening at the 48th Annual Cartagena International Festival of Film & TV (the "Sundance" of South America) on March 7, 2008. We are thrilled to have been accepted to such a prestigious festival. Unfortunately, Sean was unable to attend. We are anxiously awaiting to hear how the film was received!

More Southern Exposure - Magnolia Independent Film Festival

The film screened at the 11th Annual Magnolia Independent Film Festival on Saturday, February 16 in Starkville, MS.  Heard the screening was well attended.  Unfortunately, director Sean Tracey was unable to attend.  

Oxford Film Festival Screening

The Jesus Guy screened at the 5th Annual Oxford Film Festival on Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 4:00pm at the Malco Oxford Studio Cinema at 1111 Jackson Ave. W in Oxford, MS. Director, Sean Tracey, attended! The film received "#1 Top Buzz" for the festival (before the screening) according to the B-Side (website administrator).

Comments from the director:
It’s been a couple weeks since I returned from the Oxford FF. We had another great screening. This time in a brand new multiplex with Dolby Sound, a huge screen, and stadium seating. We had a great audience, too. It’s fascinating to see people in different theaters, different cities, states, etc., all have the same reactions at the same moments in the film. Better yet, they’re the reactions I had hoped for. Laughs when I expected them, and suspicion-detecting “hummmms???” when they should occur.
I saw a couple of other great documentaries, including “The Devil Rides on Horseback” and “Nobody”. I met the directors of Nobody and hope to share info about distribution and theatrical release. Unfortunately, What’s Your Name could not make it to the festival.
Oxford is an enigma on it’s own. So beautiful, quite upscale, classic Southern looking town square. The disconnect is every Thursday-Saturday night when shuttle busses full of University of Mississippi kids funnel into the town to drink themselves silly.
By midnight, the streets are strewn with staggering frat boys and coed girls sitting (or laying prone) on the sidewalks because they’re so drunk they can’t walk in their high heels. Yes…they get decked out in expensive little cocktail dresses to drink beer! (There’s a documentary film waiting to be made here.)
The film is on to screenings at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, the Connecticut Film Festival, and St. Anselm’s College (”Best of the Best of the NH Film Festival” night), all in March. More later. Thanks for checking in.

Film Screens Opening Day at the NH Film Festival

We were privileged to screen The Jesus Guy opening day at the NH Film Festival. It's always been a dream to screen at The Music Hall here in Portsmouth. It was great to finally showcase the film for friends, family and colleagues. The attendance and Q&A were great. And the 2nd screening at the Muddy River Smokehouse was packed as well. Thanks to everyone that came out to support the film. Looking forward to your thoughts.

Nina (featured in the film) with Director, Sean Tracey and wife, Lina.

Nina (in the film), Ariane (Media Coordinator) and Rita (Associate Producer)

Screening at the New Hampshire Film Festival

More great news!
The Jesus Guy will be screening at the 7th Annual New Hampshire Film Festival.

Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 5:45pm
The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut Street, Portsmouth, NH

and again on

Friday, October 12, 2007 at 2:00pm
Muddy River Smokehouse, 21 Congress Street, Portsmouth, NH

Director Sean Tracey will be attending the screening!

For more info about the festival click here.
or to purchase tickets, click here.