{"id":21659,"date":"2020-11-27T13:17:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T21:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000016999"},"modified":"2020-11-27T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T21:17:34","slug":"live-chat-filmmaker-lbcc-professor-eli-daughdrill-talks-about-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/live-chat-filmmaker-lbcc-professor-eli-daughdrill-talks-about-faith","title":{"rendered":"LIVE CHAT: Filmmaker, LBCC professor Eli Daughdrill talks about &#8216;Faith&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVE CHAT: LBCC Professor Eli Daughdrill discusses his new film &quot;Faith&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6DBCvt8rhyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the past nine years, Eli Daughdrill has been Chair of the Visual &amp; Media Arts Department at Long Beach City College. For the entirety of that time, he has also been working on a film influenced by a childhood spent in Central California as an evangelical Christian.<\/p>\n<p>The result is &#8220;Faith,&#8221; which premiere&#8217;s Friday, Nov. 27 across a number of streaming platforms including Amazon Prime. Though its name may suggest otherwise, &#8220;Faith&#8221; is not a faith-based film offering comfort and answers rather, in just about the quietest way imaginable, it asks a lot of uncomfortable questions of the viewer. Questions that not only explore the nature of belief but of human being&#8217;s need for meaning and how that search is sometimes helped, sometimes hindered by the communities and people we choose, or who place themselves in our lives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faith Official Trailer #2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4QeM4avj-UE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What makes &#8220;Faith&#8221; a remarkable achievement is that it manages to do all this while avoiding practically every trope or trick of Hollywood and Independent filmmaking: no villains, no big speeches, no &#8220;it was then that I knew &#8230;&#8221; Observed and patient, &#8220;Faith&#8221; is as much meditation as movie.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke to Daughdrill about how he created it, how he protected the actors he sometimes asked to go to uncomfortable depths and how he somehow stretched $200,000 to make it all work.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8220;Faith&#8221; 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