The young Peruvian Catholic Cristian García, director of BienAventurados Films, a Peruvian audiovisual production company that won the so-called “Catholic Oscar” from the Vatican, asked for help to continue bringing more souls to God through cinema.
Cristian, of Augustinian spirituality, founded BienAventurados Films in 2018. To date he has created more than 15 short films, of which “Conversation”, winner of the Mirabile Dictu International Catholic Film Festival in Rome.
This Festival, known as the “Oscar” awards for Catholic cinema, is a contest sponsored by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture that recognizes the best films with “universal moral values and positive models” in the world.
Cristian told EWTN News that when he was 15 years old, shortly after his Confirmation and after taking some acting courses, he felt the call to make films “for people to return to God”, in return for “all the good that he does for me,” he said.
In this sense, “Conversation”, his first short film, tells the story of a young man far from faith who meets Jesus, present in the Eucharist.
In dialogue with ACI Prensa, García said that his production company seeks to “return the public’s gaze to our capacity for God, through stories with high-quality and accessible transcendent messages, based on pre-evangelization and culture of values.”
He pointed out that today’s young people are exposed on social networks to “messages that leave human dignity aside” and that they want to be “a response to this society that demands transcendental content, but above all, to turn its gaze to God”. .
He explained that pre-evangelization is similar to confirmation catechesis, since it means “preparing the hearts” of people “so that they can then receive God’s message.”
For this reason, most of the productions address topics taught at the beginning of catechesis such as “freedom, human dignity, the difference between good and evil”, and not directly in subsequent formation, such as “liturgy, faith , the Holy Spirit, God the Father,” he said.
The goal is “to reach people who are not necessarily looking for faith content” and to be “a bridge so that non-believers or those who have fought with the Catholic Church can get closer. Like an outstretched hand that brings you closer to home ”, she added.
García told ACI Prensa that the production company seeks to become a non-profit association, which is why they launched the “100 Aventurados” campaign, which seeks 100 donors to help them raise 20,000 soles (a little more than 5,000 dollars).
The amount will be used to finance their procedures and cover the distribution costs of “Agoraphobia”, a new series of short films about resilience and frustration in the pandemic in Peru. Donors will get free early access to the series, he said.
“Each small collaboration is highly valued and encourages us to continue with this purpose that God has placed in our path,” he concluded.
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Young winner of the “Catholic Oscar” from the Vatican asks for help to make more films for God