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Without any formal fund raising, individuals began giving money and the needed resources to start another project. The brothers prayed for $100,000 and a specific high-definition camera to improve production quality. After months of prayer, they began writing the script for Facing the Giants – a high school football story about facing fear with faith.
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While Flywheel continued to expand, Alex and Stephen began asking God for another movie plot. The movie later aired on five television networks and garnered seven film festival awards including the Gold Crown Award for Best Screenplay from ICVM. Christian bookstores, Blockbuster Video, and movie catalogs requested Flywheel for their inventories.
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Sherwood offered Flywheel on DVD and sold all 1,000 units on the first day. The movie was extended for six weeks due to the overwhelming response. Flywheel unexpectedly sold out multiple show times as the week’s second-highest grossing movie of the cinema’s 16 screens. Sherwood Pictures’ first film was a hit, leaving moviegoers inspired and challenged by the story. Prayers continued to be answered when TV, radio and newspaper reporters reached out to promote the film, allowing advertising expenses to stay minimal. Flywheel premiered at Albany’s Carmike Cinemas on April 9, 2003. After weeks of prayer, several church members generously gave the needed funds to produce the movie and Alex began writing a script. In 2002, Alex approached Senior Pastor Michael Catt with an idea to make a low-budget, full-length movie as an outreach to the community. The brothers created videos together to support ministry needs at Sherwood, but also desired to fulfill a dream of making Christian movies. Sherwood Church’s venture into Christian filmmaking began in 2002, just a few years after hiring Alex Kendrick as Associate Pastor of Media and Stephen Kendrick as Associate Pastor of Preaching and Prayer.