![]() And in that process, we started our own studio. We don't know of another company that's ever survived a lawsuit with Disney. ![]() NH: But thank you for having me on, Warren. NEAL HARMON, GUEST: Well everyone calls it an overnight success, but it usually is preceded by 10 years of pain. And I gotta tell you, you guys have like, come out of nowhere - like zero to 60 and 0.0 seconds say in the last couple of years. I had this conversation with Neal Harmon at the annual meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters, held in Nashville earlier this year. The company now has a production arm, Angel Studios, and they have pioneered the use of crowdsourcing the funding of such projects as The Chosen, and-one of the projects we’ll discuss later in the program-Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Saga. The company he founded, VidAngel, started out by providing edited versions of mainstream movies, edited to take out the sex, violence, and profanity. From that moment on, storytelling has been a big part of his life. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. His relationship with books took off, though, when his mother gave him a copy of C.S. He grew up on a farm, learning the value of hard work, though-initially at least-he didn’t see much use for school. Neal Harmon was raised in a Mormon family in a town in Idaho that he says is straight out of the movie Napoleon Dynamite. That was Chris Wall, who we will hear from later in the program, but we begin today with Neal Harmon. And then to the secular marketplace, the same thing. Because we see a lot of, in the Christian marketplace, a certain way that that can get done, that we're not a part of, and we don't, frankly want to be. So as we found our way forward, over the last six years, it's been very difficult and frankly lonely. Later in the program we hear from Chris Wall, who is the showrunner for one of Angel Studio’s most anticipated projects, the animated adaptation of Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Saga.ĬHRIS WALL, GUEST: We are a fantasy series told by Christians, and I think it's really been important. First up is Neal Harmon, the co-founder of VidAngel and Angel Studios. I’m Warren Smith, and today you’ll be listening in on two conversations I had recently with men who are shaking up the Christian entertainment market.
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