February 21, 2014

The following excerpts are from the press release “New Groundbreaking Ex-Gay Documentary to Premiere …” on the Voice of the Voiceless website: “TULSA, OK – Sing Over Me is a new, one-¬and-¬a-¬half-¬hour documentary about award-¬winning singer and songwriter Dennis Jernigan and his painful journey and battle with same-¬sex attraction while living as a professing Christian. ‘It was a life,’ he says, ‘that was filled with shame.’ Yet, this is not a story against homosexuality. Rather, it is a story of hope, destiny and restoration.”

“To release Fall 2014, by Free Verse Films (Los Angeles, CA), the film will premiere at a special live event on Friday, Feb. 28, 7:00 p.m., at Eastwood Baptist Church; 949 S. 91 E. Ave.; Tulsa,”… (more…)

January 29, 2013

Excerpt of Christopher Doyle’s article in the Christian Post: “When I was eight years old, I was sexually abused every week for an entire year. This created a lot of sexual confusion for me. When I became a teenager, I struggled with unwanted same-sex attraction (SSA) as a result of that abuse. …”

“Today, I am a professional counselor that helps young men struggling with their own sexuality. Every week, I get calls from mothers and fathers who are concerned about their teenagers’ homosexual feelings. I have worked with many of these teens in therapy (as young as 13) to help them understand and resolve their unwanted SSA. My hope is for these young people to work through their issues now so they don’t have to deal with the pain and heartache when they are older, like I had to do.”

The documentary Real Hope, Real Truth, Real Answers received a Storyteller Award at the 2009 Redemptive Film Festival in Virginia Beach and was the 2009 winner in the Documentary Open category at the International Youth and Christian Film Festival in the United Kingdom.

The documentaries intimate window into Exodus International and the Christian ex-gay movement continues to surprise viewers. Most are not even aware that a Christian ex-gay movement exists and are stunned to learn it has been ongoing for over thirty years.

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In October “Real Hope, Real Truth, Real Answers” received the Best Documentary award at the International Christian Film Festival of 2008 held in Irvine, California.

Real Hope, Real Truth, Real Answers – the 2006 Exodus Freedom Conference was recognized as a BCIFF 2008 Honorable Mention Documentary. It was a fruitful trip to Houston and Truth Search Productions hopes that the staff at the Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival have a prosperous and God inspired future.

I am looking forward to “Real Hope’s” premiere at the Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival in Houston. A preliminary version of the documentary was screened last October at a Christian film festival in San Francisco. It was a rewarding experience for me to hear the audience reactions throughout the docudrama and then later hear how it moved them.

After the screening a woman working as a greeter told me that as the documentary was playing several of the youth workers at the festival came out of the auditorium to encourage their fellow youth workers to go in and watch the documentary. Their message to their friends was “You’ve gotta see this!” That is pretty much my perspective on the Christian ex-gay movement. Words cannot adequately describe and explain these individuals and their mission. You gotta see it to best understand it.

Tom Coy – producer

The documentary Real Hope, Real Truth, Real Answers – The 2006 Exodus Freedom Conference will make its public premiere Thursday, August 7th of 2008 at the Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival in Houston, Texas. The screening will be at 3 p.m. in the Greer and Lowdermilk Convention Center A on 4225 Interwood N. Parkway, which is just south of  Bush Intercontinental Airport.