Celebrating 10 Years of Content Conference, with Tim Shields

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Welcome to the Faith and Family Filmmakers Podcast.

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I'm Geoff and I'm excited to be with you today, talking with Tim Shields from Content Christian Media Conference Content Christian Media Conference is a five day filmmakers, actors, screenwriters, podcasters, and authors media experience, equipping content creators.

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With a five star rating.

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Tim, welcome.

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Thank you very much.

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I'm so glad to be here.

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Thank you, Geoff.

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God bless you.

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Thank

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great to have you.

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just to let our listeners know, we've got full length interview, a couple of episodes coming up with Tim.

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It's already recorded.

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Um, and it's in the queue to be edited and released sometime in the next couple of months.

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But today we're focusing specifically on the conference.

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so Tim, tell us what's special about Content Christian Media Conference.

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Thank you, so much, Geoff.

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And all those listening, may blessings fall upon you and all you're doing for the kingdom and your media projects.

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Let me quickly pray for you as you're listening.

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God, I you to give them the keys, give them the revelation, Give them the wisdom, give them the direction they need in the name of Jesus.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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So, what's so special right there that just, displays the first thing that's special about content is, is that we focus on Jesus.

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We so, we focus on the Father, the So when you come, you will come on the grounds of Capernaum Studios, which is an active film set, where The Chosen filmed a lot of Season 1, some of 2 and 3, uh, for their series, and over 150 media projects have been filmed.

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But when you come to Capernaum Studios, again, it's an active Christian film studio, you will start sensing while you're there.

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The Spirit of God is going to start moving in your life while you're at content.

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The grounds are holy before the Lord.

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Uh, we have 40 acres.

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We, our, our staff is committed to the Kingdom and His, and His principles.

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And so that alone, and that we're welcoming you, that alone will actually change everything for you.

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your media projects.

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Now, that's number one.

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Number two, again, we focus on Jesus.

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So, how do we focus on Jesus?

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You know, we have worship time, we have devo time in the morning, we have prayer time, we start out the conference on Monday night, uh, with worship and prayer for all those in media, and on Wednesday night at the conference, we do another worship time in the village.

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The village is the, uh, First Century Village that over a hundred projects have been filmed, even the chosen film there's in the village.

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So we set up chairs, and we worship there, and we ordain those who are in the ministry there, and we have a time of prayer.

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It's just an amazing time.

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That's number one.

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It's going to be a spiritual time for you.

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It's going to make a massive impact on your life.

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So this is not just about, Finding the greatest opportunity, the greatest plan for you, even though you will connect with people.

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So number one, it's a spiritual thing.

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Number two, it is a networking connection and building family time.

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We have structured this conference that it's not like an ordinary conference.

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You eat on site, you eat your lunch and dinner on site, so you will continually build community and Build family, Geoff.

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This is so important.

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I believe Revelations 5, 9, and 10 that says Jesus was crucified, and because of his crucifixion with his blood, he purchased a house.

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people from every tribe, language, tongue, and nation, right?

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Correct?

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To serve the Father.

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So we're, our heart is the Father's heart, Jesus heart, the Spirit's heart.

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We're looking for every tribe, tongue, nation, and language to come to the conference and be immersed in teaching, workshops, boot camps, watch screeners, get awards, connect with one another, build family, pray with one another, worship together.

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Uh, eat with one another and also we have an exhibit and an award ceremony.

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It's a five day experience that you probably can't find, anywhere else that I know of.

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And so we're rated five star in building community and Geoff, you've been there and I believe Jaclyn's been there and we've got a lot of new stuff coming out.

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So those are some of the reasons.

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It's our tenth year anniversary also, Geoff.

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So we're excited about those who are listening and, um, if they want to know more.

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Of course they can go to our website christianmediaconference.

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com

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Yeah.

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Awesome.

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Now you mentioned, well, first of all, I'm going to say with regards to networking.

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I know that this is especially true for content.

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I was on a film set recently where, almost all of the crew met the director producer at content and at least some of the cast.

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Yeah, and that, see, that's the thing.

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It does happen because we have that mantle on our life.

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We have that anointing on our life to not only network people, but to build and put them together for the opportunities God has given them and help them to go to the next step in their God given destiny in media.

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Yeah.

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thing, of course, at each conference, there are workshops, seminars, uh, speakers, keynotes, You mentioned some new things this year.

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Tell us what's happening this year at content.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Well, this time, we've expanded our boot camps.

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The boot camps are on Monday.

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They're free.

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intensive boot camps.

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We generally have 3 or 4, this time we have 6.

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So you want to go to our program on ChristianMediaConference.

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com.

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We have 2 screenwriters boot camps this year which is awesome.

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And we also have a producer's director.

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An author.

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We added the author bootcamp this time.

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Author writer bootcamp from Tracy Mitchell.

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And of course we have an acting one.

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And then we have a screen adaptation from book to film script.

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So, that's what's new this year, for the bootcamps.

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And then also, we are expanding the screeners on Tuesday.

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So there's more screeners possible.

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And then Wednesday we have some more.

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I call them, uh, workshop pluses.

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Okay, they're a little bit longer than a, a workshop.

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Workshops are an hour for us, but they are two hours long.

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Some are three hours long, and we're going to even talk about editing.

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They'll be editing on and social media, how to produce videos that are effective.

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And of course, acting again and just screenwriting with your wife, Jaclyn Whitt.

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So it'll be on Wednesday, right, on one called writing.

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an emotional roller coaster, the power of the midpoint.

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We even have one on distribution revenue, and so, that will be, wonderful.

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Now our exhibit hall will be in the same spot that we had last time in the big hall, and that actual building is under construction on the side.

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It's expanding, believe it or not.

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Soundstage B is expanding, and so it's going to have a foyer.

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where you can come in.

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This is my understanding.

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I saw it just yesterday when I went into Capernaum.

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Mm hmm.

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that's some of the things.

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Again, the award ceremony is going to be actually even better than it was last year, which is the Friday award ceremony.

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we're looking to expand that also, we have a focused amount of awards and we're going to have more testimonies and more people willing that are going to say something and comment on, Now, there was another thing that's new that people need to know about.

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This is really important.

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Okay, so at the conference, Geoff, we actually have a program called Boost.

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And what is Boost?

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Boost is pitching for a donation.

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That's right.

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if you have a full registration, you have the access to apply with anyone else that has a full registration.

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And all those applications go to this Kingdom Mining Panel.

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They choose 15 of those applications that pitch to them on Monday, so they pitch to them one on one in a private room to pitch for a donation.

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No strings attached.

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so we've given away this, I should say that panel has given away a little over a hundred thousand dollars in the last several years total, or maybe even more that we don't know about.

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and then we're adding Boost number two, where you pitch to win a free rental day at Copernum Studios with wardrobe and props included.

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So if you're looking to, like, film at Copernum Studios.

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Now you can apply, and you see, how are we going to figure that out?

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Which one we're going to pick?

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Well, we're going to it down to 15 applications, put them in a, probably a hat, and pick one out.

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So there is no, like, bias toward anyone, right?

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The only way we can be non biased is to put those 15 in a hat and say, Okay, this is the one that's going to win.

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Of course, we'll announce that at the award ceremony.

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So those are some of the things that are new this year.

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Um, I'm excited about it.

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we're praying more than ever, Geoff, for the people attending.

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So you mentioned earlier that this is your 10th anniversary.

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Congratulations, first of all Tell us What's the journey been over these 10 years?

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What has your attendance been like and What are you expecting this year?

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You know, Geoff, thank you so much.

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It is our 10th anniversary for the conference.

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Over 30 years for the ministry, but for the conference, 10th anniversary.

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When we started this, we had to pray because we knew it was going to be a big endeavor.

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So in 2014 was our first conference, and the journey has been Before then, we had several smaller meetings in the Dallas Fort Worth area.

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Believe this or not, this is going to be a shocker when I say this.

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We had close to 2, 000 people, individual people, attend our smaller meetings.

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In the Dallas Fort Worth area, I'm talking collectively on our email list over a period of four or five years.

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We were shocked.

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We didn't do anything.

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We just did what God wanted us to do.

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Right?

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And so because of that, we said, let's start a conference and let's pray about it for a while.

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So that journey has been right off the bat.

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We had over 200 people attend the 1st conference.

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I was like, wow, that's craziness.

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And since then.

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It's been an average of between about 200 and 250 until last year.

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Last year we had over 400 people attend in 2023.

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We just broke a barrier and this year we're on the numbers and all the stats and all the specs that we look at.

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it's on track for, again, over 400 people now.

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We give God all the glory.

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We don't take any credit for that.

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We're not necessarily looking at numbers.

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Okay?

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But I wanna just speak if anybody's listening, and they wanna attend, we wanna give you a $50 coupon code on a full registration.

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Now, $50 off.

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Uh, you just have to use the coupon code.

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Five oh FAFF.

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That's five oh FAFF.

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That's a full registration.

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For the conference and of course our website again is christian media conference.com.

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That's christian media conference.com.

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And by the way, I want you to know that, that since we have the conference at Capernaum Studios, Capernaum is out in the country, you'll feel like you are on a retreat hearing the word the Lord.

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You will feel that way 'cause we are surrounded on a ranch by horses and cattle.

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And it's beautiful.

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We're on 40 acres and there's lots of sets, lots of buildings, lots of parking lots.

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It's just a beautiful time with the Lord, with the people of God, in media, and we're learning together, we're networking together, we're having meals together, we're, celebrating our victories together, earlier in the You said one of the directors you work with got a lot of their people from it.

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Well, yeah, because we want all the people of Jesus to come in, people of God, people that are believers to come in and network and find opportunities, Geoff.

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So, thank you for allowing us to be on this podcast, brother.

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You're so welcome, and I know Jaclyn and I are looking forward to it.

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You mentioned it, feels like a retreat.

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Uh, it does.

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It feels like, summer camp, but for, uh, for filmmakers.

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And I'll also say, uh, yes, not only did the director find his crew at content, but Each of those crew members found work because of having been at Content.

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So, let me stress, this for all those immediate filmmakers.

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Directors, producers, actors, screenwriters, book authors, podcasters, marketers, distributors, and those who want to be on shows, and those who want to pitch their completed projects, want to apply to boost and get a pitch for a donation possibly, or also film at Capernaum Studios.

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Let's say you have scouts and this is a perfect opportunity to be at a conference and scout sets because we're going to do a tour of the sets on Wednesday.

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So, um, if you have any questions, go to our website, christianmediaconference.

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com, click on the contact, and I would love to answer your questions.

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And again, remember the discount code 50FAFF for $50 off.

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full registration at conference.

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And you can meet Geoff and Jaclyn there also.

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Awesome.

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Well, thank you so much for sharing with us, Tim.

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we're really looking forward to it.

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Also, I'll make sure I get the link to the, website and the discount code in our show notes.

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So if anyone needs to actually look it up, it'll be there.

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Thank you Geoff,

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God bless you,

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We'll look forward to seeing you in September.

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Okay, and we also look forward to seeing you and all those that are listening who are going to attend.

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God bless.