Friday, March 23, 2012
Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California
8:00 p.m.
The Center for Religion and Spirituality at LMU Extension and the Archdiocesan Office for Religious Education invite you to the 2012 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress Film Showcase in Anaheim, California.
As a society, we have come to recognize the great catechetical power that modern Cinema and media has in forming the Catholic conscience. One local minister put it best: “up until 50 years ago, people learned values, ethics, morals, and spirituality through their sacred texts and clergy. Today, much of our culture learns about these things through the movies.” Thus, the Congress Film Showcase was established in 2007 to highlight cinematic work rooted thematically in the Catholic social teaching, narrative tradition and spirituality. The Showcase honors and exhibits excerpts from narrative feature lengths, shorts, documentaries, experimental and animation films with an international audience of educators, ministers, artists and fellow filmmakers from both the Hollywood and independent communities.