Faith Meets Innovation: How One Church Revolutionised Film & Outreach.
For years, Church Media Teams have been associated with in-church video announcements, event promos and Christian film has been seen as cheesy. More recently, this has changed with faith-based blockbuster movies and top-quality streaming shows.
What most don’t realise is that before there was Hollywood, in 1891, the Salvation Army in Melbourne was running one of the world’s first film studios, creating spiritually uplifting films, cutting-edge entertainment, and historic documentaries.
LIMELIGHT is a feature documentary by director Eddie Beyrouthy that tells this remarkable story. Captain Joseph Perry, then just 28, alongside Commandant Herbert Booth, led a team producing over 400 films.
The catalogue includes over 400 ground-breaking films and documentaries, including The Federation of Australia and the Boer War troop departures, as well as one of the earliest narrative dramas, Soldiers of the Cross. This innovative multimedia approach from a small Bourke Street attic studio combined hand-coloured lantern slides, live music, and storytelling, pioneering cinema with a mission of hope and social change.
LIMELIGHT brings unseen footage to life in stunning 4K with new soundtracks, reconnecting faith communities to a lost heritage on digital platforms including Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon Prime and Wonder from November 19.
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Read Russ Matthew's Movie Review Here
Review and Editorial Opportunities:
If you'd like to access a screener of the documentary for review, or arrange an exclusive interview with any of the following
Featured Spokespeople:
- Lindsay Cox, OAM, Manager of Salvation Army Heritage Centre
- Major Warren Elliott, Salvation Army Public Relations Secretary
- Director Eddie Beyrouthy
- Dr Ray Edmondson, OAM, NFSA Curator
Please contact Christer King Edeborg - christer@heritagefilms.com.au