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The Enemy God Prayer
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The Enemy God (Yai Wanonabälewä) Film Project
News Update
June 7, 2007
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In this issue
-- Editing Underway
-- Special Effects
-- Prayer Requests

Greetings!

Grace and trust have become the buzzwords of my life recently. A sort of "perfect storm" surrounding the film and our team has really challenged us. Some of the events are things about which I have written in the past: the political turmoil and hurdles in Venezuela, the general challenges of making an indigenous film in a developing country with inexperienced actors and crew, etc.

However, there are other issues about which I have not written, or only hinted at, that have deeply affected us. Primarily, these surround the making of the film and the simultaneous collapse of a larger organization to which we were connected. All during production, beginning in January, we had almost daily crises that threatened to shut us down. None of these were things we expected, like hurricanes or irate local citizens in Belize.

I won't go into more details now and I haven't been able to communicate much before this for many reasons, but I'm telling you just a bit now so that you can keep us in your thoughts and prayers. I hadn't realized how traumatic some of these things were until our core 10X team returned home to the US and discovered that they really were not OK and able to just jump back into life and the post-production of the film.

I'm happy to say that it appears to me that everyone is "back in the saddle" and eager to finish the film - but only just now. Hence my lack of communication with you even though lots has been going on with the film.

Matt, our Producer of the film, has written this update for you on some of the pieces and the progress we've made since the end of March.

Thank you for joining with us,

Tom Khazoyan -- Executive Producer, The Enemy God (Yai Wanonabälewä) film


Editing Underway
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 Tom editing TEG Matt Castagna writes:

Executive Producer Tom Khazoyan has taken on the Herculean task of editing the film. Good progress has been made and we expect a rough cut of the film to be completed by early July. The rough cut will then be sent to the director, Christopher Bessette. He will take some time to add his "touch" to the film. Finally, Tom, Christopher and I will get together and hammer out the final editing details.

Meanwhile, our composer, Tim Alberts is beginning to create a score for the film which will add drama and excitement to the story.


Special Effects
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 actors on blue screen Keyframe, a special effects company, is working on some of the shots that need their expertise in helping to bring the story to life. For instance, in the scene pictured to the right, the actors are depicting a war party crossing a log below a waterfall. Because the scene was too dangerous to do in real life, we shot this scene with the log sitting on top of a trailer parked in front of a huge piece of blue cloth. A real waterfall was shot several weeks prior to this. The blue background will be removed and replaced by the waterfall shot and the viewing audience will never know the difference.


warriors and burning shabano In the scene to the left, a victorious war party is leaving the village they've attacked and set fire to. We had to get this scene right the first time as we only had one film set we could burn! (No Hollywood effects here, just real fire on a real shabano!) Praise God, it worked out great!


Prayer Requests
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 · Please pray for our transition from filming into our post-production process of editing, creating special effects, music scoring, etc. The complexity of dealing with cast and crew and locations is past, but this phase of the film is just as important. It is the time where all of the pieces we have filmed come together into a whole story on film.

· Pray for our cast and crew as they resume their "normal" lives - some of them on their next film project and some back in school or work. We hope that the impact of the film-making process will ultimately be blessing to them all.



Contact Information
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phone: 303-459-5393
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