Delivering Evan, a Fish Named Peter and Jesus

You really need to pay attention.  apparently when starting a film about God, things start to happen pretty quickly.  I'm a bit overwhelmed by the response both from a growing audience of people that are more interested than I thought as well as from whatever mysterious happenings occur when you set out to make a film about God.  Its like I pressed a button and said "i want to know what God is" and God pressed a button that said "are you sure you are ready?"

You know those people that say all you have to do is pray?  Well I'm already seeing direct results.



Producer Evan Bellam


I should probably go back a bit.  this is Evan Bellam.  The night before I met Evan, I had this dream about a fish who kept jumping out of water and spoke to me and said his name was Peter.  Seemed ridiculous until someone on Facebook told me that Peter was the disciple of Jesus that gave Jesus a fish. I never knew that.  Jews don't learn about Jesus.  Then I thought about the dream further - fish - wait a sec isnt that the symbol for Jesus?  and fish out of water... thats me right?  Ok maybe I'm just making huge leaps (no pun intended) but you gotta admit its pretty amazing.

 Anyway, could just be a dream about a talking fish but that very day Evan comes in to the office (I met his mom) and tells me he wants to produce a film and I show him this project.  Within hours, Evan is on the phone to some of the top faith dealers in North America to see if we can get some time with them: for what - we do not know yet, but as things are speedily advancing, we are letting "God" lead the way.  Its kinda like making a doc without any real focus but letting "Faith" tell us what is next.
All I know is Evan and I were supposed to meet.



Billie and Evan


The whole idea of this film started when my neighbors moved next door.  They are from the Korean Christian community and are very open about their beliefs in Jesus.  I was fascinated by their faith and began to question my own.  I will get into this more but what came out of our differences the most was that I learned that though I thought I had faith, in contrast to them, mine was undefined. That was what kick started this whole experience: My neighbours moving in.  Was that providence?  To make a long story short, through this connection I ended up making these films for her company:



While interviewing Sunni I really began to question my own beliefs.  Was I just floating by in life with no real connection like he spoke of?  Was his connection real?  I began to really question all of this and thats what i am doing here.

This week I have quite the adventure ahead of me.  I am excited to share.