My Last Day Without You

The Jonahre award is a floating trophy created by Ardmore Ceramic Studios artist Petros Gumbi, that will be accompanied by a plague featuring the names of the winning film each year.

The piece will be on display to view in South Africa at various art museums that will be announced.

This piece was created for Jonahre's Arise Art Auction in 2010 to celebrate the storytelling art of Africa that "brings truth to reality through ART."

My Last Day Without You is an artistic expression of Truth being lived out realistically in the life of the believer and is thus highly commended for its high standard in both artistic production quality and authentic truth storytelling.

We hope to see another Jonahre film emerge from the 2012 Transforming Stories International Christian Film Festival submissions.

The Jonahre winning film, My Last Day Without You, will be shown in theatres throughout South Africa in 2012 and showtimes and locations will be posted shortly.

Acceptance Speech

Dear Jury Members, Fellow Filmmakers & Film Enthusiasts attending the 2011 Transforming Stories Film Festival:

We are very honored that MY LAST DAY WITHOUT YOU was included in the festival this year along with some many other inspiring films.

We are of course also grateful and humbled for being selected to receive the Jonahre Award.

From its inception, our film has been an exploration of faith, doubt, questions of destiny, and the daily struggle to walk the walk. Given this, we are deeply moved that our film was recognized for, as the Jonahre mission statement reads – "bringing truth to reality."

Many thanks for the award – which will surely help us in getting the film and its message out to audiences all over the world.

We wish we were there with you this evening – enjoy and congratulations to all involved!

Sincerely,
Stefan Schaefer | Writer, Director

The Blind Side

The Blind Side is a film about God, family, relationships and ultimate love. It depicts the remarkable true story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by a well-to-do white family who help him fulfil his potential. At the same time, Michael's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own.

It communicates Biblical truth to transform culture, introducing the audience to the alternative lifestyle of the believer on several levels. Not only does it challenge the status quo of the gap between America's "have and have nots" but it speaks of what can be, how the have's can contribute to embetterment of American society by one family changing one person's life for the better. Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) is authentic in her behaviour of a Christlike lifestyle. Her friends- compliment her on the good deed of adopting Michael, but in the same breath caution her on the fact that she has a teenage daughter and it might not be a great idea to bring a hulking figure of a young black man from the streets into her house hold. Her response is one of indignation as she explains that to her this is not just a good deed for the sake of appearances but it is done out of love.

The Lamb

In a world torn apart by religious and political conflict, in a time of promise and expectation, an astounding story of reconciliation unfolds.

The Lamb is a heartwarming story of a Jewish father, Mattias, and his young son, Joel. Mattias is an intensely religious man whose life is shattered by the death of his eldest son, Aaron. Driven by grief and anger, Mattias renounces God and turns his back on the family he once treasured. Neglecting Joel, he struggles to come to terms with his pain and loss. In a desperate attempt to win back his father's love, Joel makes a devastating sacrifice that not only breaks the hardness of his father's heart, but could change their entire world forever.

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