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When you look around your church and community, there are stories everywhere. Capture Summit wants to share the ones you’ve brought to life.
The Church Filmcraft Festival provides the open forum. Submit your film for a chance to win some great prizes.
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2022 Categories
Best Animation
Animation is the art of giving movement and motion to inanimate objects in film. Thanks to today’s free tools, like Blender and others, anybody can try their hand at—and practice—creating animated content.
Best Audio
From mixing to sound effects (SFX) to musical score or soundtrack, voiceover, and dialogue, audio enhances the atmosphere and mood of a film by fleshing out its aural world. Sound design in post-production provides indispensable contextual information.
Best Cinematography
A project’s director of photography (DP) blends cinematic art and science to create the most visually arresting films and videos. Lighting, framing, composition, angles, color, and depth-of-field are just a few of cinematography’s key elements.
Best Direction
A director brings all the creative elements of a film or video to life. From choosing scripts, revising them, working with actors in each given scene, and collaborating with editors in post-production, a director’s work puts a unique visual stamp on each film project.
Best Editing
A visual editor’s keen understanding of emotion will move a story forward, and their editing choices will make or break a scene. An excellent eye is important, as well as a natural talent for crafting a story’s timing and generating its pace.
Best Lighting
Lighting separates the men from the boys in any film project. But, with know-how and understanding of styles like flat, butterfly, loop, Rembrandt, and so many more, it’s possible to achieve excellent lighting for film and video on even a shoestring budget.
Best Script
Some of the best scenes ever written for film convey complex thoughts and emotions purely visually—with next-to-no dialogue. The right script will bring the most powerful film or video visions and stories to life.
Best Visual Effects (VFX)
VFX is used to create imagery for a film that can’t be captured in a live-action shoot. Once created through CGI or software, VFX integrates with actual footage to bring other worldly environments, or scenes too dangerous or impossible to shoot, to life.
Best Overall Video
A panel of specially appointed Capture judges will subjectively choose the Best Overall submissions (over 500 attendance and under 500 attendance) using the full range of categories. While the deciding factor may be a very subjective one, these films and videos will shine on all fronts and communicate emotion like no others.
Viewer’s Choice Award
Capture attendees will vote for their one favorite film or video among all the Church Filmcraft Festival submissions. This award is the church filmmaker’s chance to be recognized by others who are working to create enduring content that brings people to Christ.
Church Filmcraft Festival Submission Guidelines
So you want to enter the Church Filmcraft Festival? Here are some helpful guidelines for making sure the process goes off without a hitch.
Eligibility and Rules
- A link to the submission form will be emailed upon registration to Capture Summit.
- The Church Filmcraft Festival entries must be produced by an in-house church video production team.
- Submission videos must be publicly viewable.
- Each church is limited to a total of three submissions.
- Each submission is eligible for up to three categories. Categories must be selected at the time of submission. All submissions are automatically considered for the Best Overall categories.
- Submissions are only eligible for an award if a team member attends, in-person, the Capture Summit 2022 at The John C. Maxwell Leadership Center at 12Stone Church in Metro Atlanta.
2022 Submissions
Filmed live on April 17th. We’ve used 4 SONY HD cameras, AVMATRIX video switcher. All camera and audio techs are volunteers in the church and…
Blackmagic CC 6k pro with Sigma’s 18-35. The topic of faith formation is so broad and our talent had so much to say that the…
I just started at this parish as the videographer a couple of months ago. I shot my footage with a BMPC6kpro with a mix of…
This video was created for our worship opening for Easter 2020. We were in lockdown and no one was coming to worship. It was shot…
This video was created for our worship opening for Easter 2020. We were in lockdown and no one was coming to worship. It was shot…
I wanted to create an intimate feeling like a mother reading the Christmas story to her daughter, but I wanted it to feel like she…
This video was for our online-only service on Dec 26th. The music portions were all tracked at different times in a makeshift studio space we…
St. Mark Ministries Bloopers
One human project. I decided the night before shooting this that we should have a banner for our Ash Wednesday Service and that it be…
This was our video for Easter 2022 service. We made this to support the sermon for our senior pastor’s vision for Easter Sunday. With a…
This project was shot over the course of a few days in Lake Charles, Louisiana with the mission of getting people to go on a…
ALL Submissions
Filmed live on April 17th. We’ve used 4 SONY HD cameras, AVMATRIX video switcher. All camera and audio techs are volunteers in the church and…
Blackmagic CC 6k pro with Sigma’s 18-35. The topic of faith formation is so broad and our talent had so much to say that the…
I just started at this parish as the videographer a couple of months ago. I shot my footage with a BMPC6kpro with a mix of…
This video was created for our worship opening for Easter 2020. We were in lockdown and no one was coming to worship. It was shot…
This video was created for our worship opening for Easter 2020. We were in lockdown and no one was coming to worship. It was shot…
I wanted to create an intimate feeling like a mother reading the Christmas story to her daughter, but I wanted it to feel like she…
This video was for our online-only service on Dec 26th. The music portions were all tracked at different times in a makeshift studio space we…
St. Mark Ministries Bloopers
One human project. I decided the night before shooting this that we should have a banner for our Ash Wednesday Service and that it be…
This was our video for Easter 2022 service. We made this to support the sermon for our senior pastor’s vision for Easter Sunday. With a…
This project was shot over the course of a few days in Lake Charles, Louisiana with the mission of getting people to go on a…
We knew this testimony would minister to those believing God for healing! David Jones reached out to us about his miraculous recovery. We used two…
We received a testimony submission from one of our members, Sade’ Boullier and knew her story would impact many others! It’s not often that someone…
A special event to promote our Christmas Eve services.
This video project was a recap to promote one of the first of many prayer walk series that our church will be doing called Unite…
A music video for our Christmas Eve services. Filmed on location in a small horse barn utilizing nanlite forzas and color panels and tubes. Cameras…
For this short, we used a Canon C200, Aputure lighting, and a Dana Dolly. The dolly was a great asset for this project as it…
This announcement video was shot on a Canon C200. The spring season means a lot of events for our church, and we found ourselves with…
For this project, we purchased a roll of aluminum foil and wrapped three pieces of 4’ x 8’ sign board to create the backdrop. Then…
To create the backdrop for this, we used an 8’ x 8’ Matthews diffusion cloth and covered it with wrinkled painter’s plastic. Then we placed…
This testimony video tells the story of how Luke Whitmire, former steadicam operator for some of the top studios in New York and Los Angeles,…
John shares his perspective on how our church staff overcame the trials of 2020 and used those experiences to grow the church’s ministry.
Maxine shares her story of overcoming abuse and finding salvation. This project was filmed in front of four 4’ x 8’ MDF panels that our…
I used a black magic pocket edition 4k and for the shot in the water I used a special casing that would protect my camera…
I don’t even know if this video belongs in this category, but this was a simple concept year-in-review video montage of our online video journey…
This video project was the first of a series of 3 videos where our church partnered up with three gospel-centered organizations in NYC that focused…
Our church in Every Nation NYC is compromised of numerous different sites in Brooklyn, Bronx, Hamptons, New Jersey, and Manhattan which is the main one,…
Starkville First UMC Bloopers
This behind-the-scenes video is all about our church’s 2021 message series “Anger City Limits.” For this particular series, our creative team produced five videos—a series…
Video 5/5: This video series is the biggest project we’ve ever produced. It includes a trailer to promote our series “Anger City Limits” as well…
Video 4/5: This video series is the biggest project we’ve ever produced. It includes a trailer to promote our series “Anger City Limits” as well…
Video 3/5: This video series is the biggest project we’ve ever produced. It includes a trailer to promote our series “Anger City Limits” as well…
Video 2/5: This video series is the biggest project we’ve ever produced. It includes a trailer to promote our series “Anger City Limits” as well…
Video 1/5: This video series is the biggest project we’ve ever produced. It includes a trailer to promote our series “Anger City Limits” as well…
Pat and Janelle Emerson recount the events that led to them nearly getting divorced and how God brought them to NewSpring at just the right…
Connie Heidebrecht is the director of a non-profit in Wichita that helps women leave abusive relationships and get started on a new path both professionally…
Nick Shald is a guitarist on our worship staff. This testimonial story was incredibly emotional to capture and assemble. We spent several hours interviewing Nick,…
This music video was part of a nationally televised broadcast we produced for Christmas 2020. We set up some black plastic in our studio and…
This music video was part of a nationally televised broadcast we produced for Christmas 2020. The location we filmed in had a lot of the…
This music video was part of a nationally televised broadcast we produced in 2020. The Kansas African American Museum graciously allowed us to film on…
We wanted this Father’s Day video to be an homage to the action movies of the ’80s. A lot of inspiration came from Rambo and…
This video promoting our series “Worlds Of Warfare III: The Weapons” was all shot in our studio. We wanted to really focus on the weapons…
This was a video we shot for s service opener for a huge event we do annually called “Man Day” held every fathers Day. It…
Our Online Christmas Experience during the 2020 lockdown.
This is a project we did to share the impact of our after school Homework club program for local youth. I used multiple sony FS5…
I used a cannon c100 mk2, mostly just run and gun trying to capture moments. The biggest challenges were staying ahead of the march, getting…
“Change is something we all experience. Sometimes is inevitable. Sometimes is chosen. But it is always necessary for beauty to grow.” This video was obviously…
“As we enter into this new year may we do it with a heart that desires to go deeper. Deeper for the sake of Jesus,…
The YES Conference is for any high school student who is willing to step into the adventure of discovering who God has created them to…
We concluded a message series about Heaven with a worship night where this video served as the opener. Amanda Lewallen, seen in this video, brought…
The setup for this one was a Panasonic G85 on a DJI RS2 gimbal and a single overhead light source in the middle of our…
After a few failed attempts at rehearsal over Zoom, our choir began meeting in small groups during the pandemic. To keep them integrated as a…
Brittany filmed this using Canon Rebel T5 and edited using Final Cut Pro. All actors were students from the LYFE Youth Group at Life Church.
This year, our Easter services held a doubly joyful meaning for us at Citylight. Along with us celebrating Jesus’s resurrection, we were also celebrating the…
Our cover of O Come O Come Emmanuel was one of the 10 music video songs we included in our online Christmas Eve service during…
To make a long story short, our church meets in Philadelphia. During the pandemic, we went exclusively to online services. In the fall of 2020,…
Used a Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4k with Rokinon cinema lenses. We used an actual Zoom session to record some of it and that proved very…
“With our eyes we see, we dream, we accept, we hurt. It is easy to get caught up in seeing through the lens of comparison,…
“Worth” is a micro-short film, which shares a beautiful story-testimonial of CC Smith who felt devalued but desired to overcome low self-esteemed. After reflecting the…
Greetings from Trinidad! In December 2020 Our church decided to produce it’s first film / musical production! No budget, all who participated volunteered their time…
This is a sound bite we pulled from one of pastors sermons and created as a stand alone spot. Most of the footage is form…
Shot on a red camera, a 60 sec promo video for our annual women’s conference.
This is a testimony video we shot on a canon. We pulled the b roll from Gettys and music from first com.
This was a music video we shot for a spoken word project we released within the ministry.
We shot this on a red camera, it was extremely hot with no air condition at a boxing gym in the middle of no where.…
This was mostly created by stock footage on Getty’s, music by first com, we created the storyline and original voice over. The challengers were trying…
Coming Home is a story about a couple who found their way “home” to Christ. Filming this story in winter helped set the tone for…
We shot this video for use in our weekend experiences with the goal of making it extremely easy and compelling for an attendee to download…
For this video promoting our series “My Secret Life,” we were aiming for a suspense/thriller vibe. We storyboarded the sequence and then scouted for locations.…
A once drug lord, murderer, and extortionist becomes a Christian and leads a ministry inside one of the most dangerous prisons in Peru. This is…
As an educator who fought hard during the recent pandemic, there was a need to bring a fresh lens of hope to the our community,…
The film was a labor of love. As the Director of Dance & Film for an inner city who was on the brink of shutting…
This video was a testimony that we played during our Easter service in 2021. This was shot on a Blackmagic Pocket cinema 4K camera in…
This video was a testimony that we played during our Easter service in 2021. This was shot on a Blackmagic Pocket cinema 4K camera in…
We shot this with black magic cameras (4.6k and pocket 4K). We had the 4K on a gimble and the mini on sticks. It was…
This video was used for a new year service and about the gift of time, and is based on the alleged Martin Luther quote “If…
We did an Arby’s theme father’s day video.
In August, 2020, we had a series of services around the theme of connecting with God through his creation as a way of re-creating ourselves.…
We knew the whole concept would be shot in only two locations, so the lens choice had to reflect that as well. We need a…
Intro for message series based on the Apostle’s Creed.
This was a true story about the Eufemia and Coucci family. With normal struggles that most people would go through in life they found that…
This project tells the story of the inception of our first regional campus. It was made in honor of that campus’ 10th anniversary. It was…
This is a short, modern rendition of the parable of the prodigal son that was used as a sermon bumper. This project was shot on…
Promo video for a special night of worship for our college/young adult ministry. This promo was shot on Black Magic Pocket Cinema 6k Pro. To…
The story of how one member who was experiencing relational loss was able to find community in the church. This story was shot on Sony…
This was a story piece highlighting racial unity in our church. It was shot on Sony A7sii and lit with Arri tungsten lights. The most…
What are the lessons you learn on the road? That was the inspiration for this series starter. We really just wanted to give the audience…
This video was sermon bumper for the series “We are the Church”. This video aired right in the middle of time of conflict and injustice…
What is your favorite Christmas Candy? What better way to answer this question than place the top Christmas candy’s in front of the young ones…
Our church did sermon series called Outflow. As soon as we heard the name of the series, we knew this was our opportunity to buy…
In 2020 East Nashville was hit by a tornado that destroyed entire neighborhoods. The Church at Lockeland Springs was right in the middle of the…
This was a music video feature for our Online Christmas concert this year. This song was a cover of Audrey Assad’s “Winter Snow”. However, this…
“Being incarcerated was one of the biggest blessings of my entire life.” These are the first words Darby said to me as we sat for…
Enjoy this fun blooper reel.
This was a promotional video about the theme for the year “Living On Purpose”. The pastor loves the Falcons and I thought of a concept…
One of the highlights for our church every year is getting to host our annual Christmas Collective, a large Christmas Concert and socially-conscientious Christmas Market.…
This short film project was created to premiere at our 2021 Easter services. By the end credits, I wanted the audience to be empowered to…
For many years I’ve felt that one of my favorite songs was written as though it could be my Savior Jesus Christ talking to me,…
To cast vision for our building campaign, we wanted to revisit the significance of Church architecture of the past. What purpose did it serve? What…
Acts 2:1-12 read by Floodsters here in San Diego, as a part of our 2020 Pentecost Celebration. We hoped to recreate a sense of the…
The project started as a way to show the congregation how the head minister writes her sermons. It morphed into the actual sermon for our…
Enjoy this fun blooper reel.
This is a testimony video from two of our congregants and how God completely restored a seemingly lost situation! This video was on a time…
This was a music video we shot over the summer. We were entering a new sermon series, “The Miracle of Mercy,” and we got the…
This is branded 5-minute countdown that I filmed over the span of a year. This countdown is shown at the beginning of the morning and…
This project was our Men’s Retreat promo for this past year. In order to get the looking upshot of the dodgeball at the end, I…
“Pride Shorts 2021” were created to light the beacon to those who feel that the church has abandoned them due to their identifying as LGBTQ+.…
Our creative team did an amazing live cover called “Wild,” by Local Sound. Church by the Glades is led by Pastor David Hughes. We are…
This project was dear to our film team’s heart as we were sent Lilyanah’s story two years prior, and we knew we wanted to tell…
Promo for our series called timeless. we used a mixture of stock and footage we shot to create an introspective and mysterious atmosphere. The majority…
I was sent to Bethlehem by my church to explore the unique perspective of Palestinian Christians. They offer a way forward, and are pro-israeli AND…
A video highlighting congregation members and staff welcoming everyone to worship. I used a Canon 77d DSLR, Neewer ring light, Rode Shotgun mic, along with…
A look at all of Snyder Memorial Baptist Church through the stories of members. I used a Canon 77d DSLR, Neewer ring light, Rode Shotgun…
This project was all about drawing the viewer into the lives of the many church mothers across the generations of our congregation. Our Children’s Minister,…
A COVID video designed to keep the church together during Easter week. This was our Maundy Thursday service to start the Holy weekend. Equipment: shot…
One of a series of videos of our worship leaders singing Christmas songs we used as promos for our Christmas services. This was shot Using…
At the time we only had an old Sony camera (Model: HDR-CX560). It took quite a few shots and editing to get the thriller style…
This video represents a difficult time one of our members had and a battle with depression along with the impact the ministry had on getting…
This project focused on one of our members who was battling cancer and how the ministry and members of the church had a positive impact…
A promo and series introduction made primarily in After effects and photoshop.
This was part of a series of interviews we did around aspects of the prodigal son story. We used 2 Sony FS5 MK IIs and…
This is one of a series of interviews we did based around different aspects of the prodigal son. We shot these with 2 Sony FS5…
Shot using a Canon 80D, Canon XA20, the Rode Wireless Go mic, and a couple of shop lights 🙂 We took our first attempt at…
In this video one of our congregation members, Adam, shares his testimony. We played this during our Easter service in 2019. As a one man…
Shot with a Sony A73 camera
Shot with the Sony a7sii and Rode Pro microphone, this week’s newsreel utilizes a fairly straightforward approach to our church announcements. We’ve opted for a…
Created in Adobe After Effects 2020, this message bumper introduces each weekly sermon in the series “A Living Hope: An Exposition of 1 Peter.” The…
Every member at First Bible Church knows about the 3Gs: Gather (in corporate worship), Grow (in community groups), and Go (in service of the gospel).…
This church newsreel was shot on the Sony a7sii and Rode Pro microphone, utilizing a basic white balance card and Sekonic light meter for optimal…
One of our key movements as church is defending the fatherless. Using adoption and foster care to see kinds find their forever families. Each year…
Use the Song Testify to close out a message series. We wanted our people to live out their faith and testify!
Use the Song Living Hope for our Easter Services. This year being all online we want to do something different and memorable. Shot it 5…
Story of a young birth mother who gave up her son for adoption. How God used that to shape her.
Story of Michael Baldwin, Tom, and Janise Brown. Michael lived with Grandmother and she passed away. Tom was asked to adopt Micheal but passed on…
We wanted to create a villain to promote an upcoming series called “Identity Crook”, which is really a series about idolatry and all the things…
Shot on Sony A7III
Shot using iPhones and Sony A7III. Edited using Premiere Pro.
Shot using a Sony A7III
Shot using Sony A7III, Black Magic 6K, Mavic 2 Zoom, Canon 5D MkIV, Sony a6300
– a Grace Bible Church film – Written by: Kurt Moucha Director & Director of Photography: Zach Blackburn Editor & Special FX: Zach Blackburn Camera…
Shot using Sony A7III
Shot with Sony a6300
We shot this video on the blackmagic pocket cinema 4k. It was a fun video we threw together quickly to thank our volunteers and help…
At the beginning of the pandemic, we were having people do a lot of remote video. And some of the results were less than stellar.…
This video was part 3 of a series of bumpers about our church history.
Men and Boys Fishing Trip promo with apologies to “Gilligan’s Island”.
This video was a Christmas promo at our church for previous Announcement Videos. It was used as a fundraiser for the youth.
This video was one of 6 in a series on our new church values. Our values are things that are currently true of our church…
In the wake of the George Floyd protest and rioting, the church communities from all denominations in Orlando came together for a day of prayer,…
This project was a video we shot to promote the construction of our new Children’s Ministry Center. Our Kid’s ministry has never had an auditorium…
This was a fun narrative project we did a few years back for our Christmas Eve Services. We spent months planning it out and it…
We were having a Volunteer Appreciation event and wanted to present this video for our many volunteers to let them know how a church would…
The video is a promotional tool that is part documentary and narrative describing the history of the church and the experience of being a member…
We had a sermon series called Alchemy. As a fun little play off of that, we made a fictional character, Dr. Al Chemy that would…
This year for Easter, our church had an entirely different concept and idea for a film that was made impossible by the Covid-19 outbreak. So…
Tina is amazing and so is her story. Tina continues to serve in Visalia First Media and is currently working on her BA attending Bible…
Anthony is leads our Security team here at Visalia First for more than a few years now. He is passionate about sharing Jesus with others…
This story was challenging because I was using a drone for the first time I believe to capture some b-roll footage for KJ’s story.
Telling Hector’s story was such an amazing story to capture because it had not been told yet and for the first time Hector’s family was…
I remember the text message I got on May 24 detailing a feature we were planning for the weekend after next. The killing of Breonna…
Every year we produce a video with a re-telling of the Christmas Story. Over the years we’ve shot a few versions of kids telling the…
This was an idea we had for a couple of weeks prior to actually making it. Three of our vocalists had done an impromptu version…
Back in the fall we decided that we wanted to put together a video that honored our volunteers—the people that make up the church, and…
Our second attempt at a sermon series trailer. This series was for advent titled “Incarnate: Wholly God, Fully Man, Begotten not Made.” We wanted to…
After attending Capture Summit in 2019, we were introduced to the idea of sermon series trailers. This sermon series was called “Living in Babylon: Walking…
In 2019, we chose the sermon series title When Everything Changed for our Spring 2020 sermon series. Little did we know that COVID-19 would strike…
This is a documentary we made celebrating the history of God’s work in our church, both historically and relationally. We shot the entire thing on…
This is a story we played in our Easter service.
This video was used to celebrate Hope’s 25th Anniversary.
We took our founding pastor on a ride to learn more about what it means to follow Christ.
This is the bumper for our last sermon series “Origin Story – Welcome to the Promise Land.” This 100% animated
This video was used within the message during our Easter services. We needed a moment to teach out of, give a lesson and it ended…
Promo for new bible study presented by the Christian Education Department for the Young Adult age group.
Lorna’s story is a testimonial video about Lorna’s breakthrough as she dealt with and battled depression, the influence of the church/ministry, and her deliverance from…
The Gospel presented in a spoken-word poetry format.
Sermon Bumper for the sermon series “ROAR.”
Promo for a men’s conference called “More Than Conquerors” based on Romans 8:37.
This was a promotional video for a giving campaign to purchase and renovate a warehouse for our church home. Each shot was at a location…
Patrick demonstrates some poor judgement on how to share your faith in the workplace. He and Gary have a discussion about the RIGHT way to…
Originally submitted to the 168 Film Festival and won the Evangelista Award for the film in the KidVid category in 2016. Two young boys learn…
Promo
Performed as a short-film, you will experience a modern-day story unfold of a son who receives his inheritance from his father and spends it unwisely.…
Promo video.
Testimonial video.
Promotional video for AWANA clubs
Peter Mangi’s Story is about how God led a boy from the slums of Africa to newhope Church in Thika, Kenya, where he became the…
Heather Bennett’s Story is a journey of faith and miraculous healing. Unable to find a proper diagnosis after many consults with physicians, Heather and her…
The Jump Commercial is a short video to promo newhope Church via TV broadcast. Some things in life may be thrilling, but are not very…
The Art and the Artist depicts how our lives can take many twists and turns especially within the weight of the consequences of our decisions.…
The Rock Band Commercial is a TV commercial for newhope Church. Getting the band back together can be thrilling, but, depending on the gigs you’re…
Concept film based on Philippians 3:14 “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ…
Testimonial video.
Found is based on the true story of a man named Raymone Maye. Raymone likes to live life to the fullest with little regard for…
Jing and Maomei are living proof of how God works across nations. Today, they are part of a discipleship class that is living on mission.…
Freaky Friday family sized fiasco as both parents and children find they have to walk in each others’ shoes to learn to love better
The goal of this video is to inform area churches, businesses, and individuals about all the ways Bright Hope is making a positive difference in…
Promotional / Teaser video for our yearly youth conference. This year the focus was on guarding your heart.
When planning its annual Family Fun Day event, church staff filmed mockumentary style, similar to antics in The Office TV comedy.
Music video recap of 2017 Vacation Bible School at Bull Street Baptist Church in Savannah, GA. Music video technique is quite simple with little cost…
Relaxing and beautiful musical recap of activities at Baptist Camp Lebanon in NJ simply made by combining short video clips of camp activities and setting…