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Founded on the premise that popular culture and conventional wisdom are limited paradigms; and that you have to dig a little deeper and work a little harder to uncover stories that will surprise, challenge and move you. What you finally end up with may "smell a little different" than what you're used to...
Jeffrey Pohorski
CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION
GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS-Guatemala Trailer
We are producing twelve videos for Cape Town 2010, a congress designed to bring people together from around the world on the issues like the Muslim/Christian conflict, pursuing justice, women in ministry, holistic ministry and others. The first video takes place in Guatemala City where we join a former gang member who works with gangs in local prisons. (Photos by Matt Kirk)
HOG WILD
Each summer they gather from around the state (and one team from the hated Chicago). Teams of three who enter a ring of mud to conquer the pig. The goal is to wrestle the pig into a barrel before a thirty second time limit.
JACK LONDON: The Golden City
"The greatest story Jack London never wrote, was the story of his life."
Novelist Jack London became the first American pop star. In the early part of the 20th Century Jack’s popularity was worldwide. But it was during the Gold Rush of the 1890’s when Jack experienced his only real adventure. What transpired during the year 1897 became the source for all his subsequent writing and fame. At 21, Jack’s dreams of becoming a successful writer and marrying his childhood sweetheart hung by a thread. Unemployed and penniless, Jack travels to the Yukon with three prospectors in hopes of striking it rich. What he found instead was the power of nature and the depravity of humanity. Script. Trailer.
WRESTLING FOR JESUS
Wrestling and religion are strange bed fellows. For a group of men in rural South Carolina, the combination of these conflicting threads has created a quirky yet winsome community. Once a month, these men gather to exhibit their wrestling skills in front of small audiences throughout the Southeast. Each event ends with a short presentation where audience members are asked to become born again. However, where wrestling and Jesus meet is not just inside the ring, but in the wrestling family that develops in the WFJ. Trailer
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS: Riding the Wind 
Two brothers, bonded together by family, overcome
sickness and ridicule to challenge the top thinkers of
their day and accomplish what no one else could. Build a plane and fly it.
Wilbur and Orville Wright struggle to find their niche in life and open a bicycle repair shop. Before she dies, their mother teaches them engineering skills while their pastor father champions their unique career choice. The boys’ loving sister gives up her career and marriage to serve her brothers as they fulfill their dream.After failing to build a plane that flies, Wilbur and Orville create their own theories for flight and confront the world’s foremost aeronautic engineers at the Chicago Exposition. But their new formulas are quickly dismissed.
Script. Pursuing financing.
RECENTLY COMPLETED PRODUCTIONS
WHEN HEAVEN MEETS EARTH: 
Faith and the Environment in the Chesapeake Bay
For decades environmentalists of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) battled with farmers over regulations for land and chemical-use to ease pollution of the Chesapeake Bay. This video chronicles Susan Drake Emmerich’s faith-based stewardship approach that began with the conflict between Tangier watermen and environmentalists over blue crab fishery regulations. Susan and the watermen’s success spread to farm land and chemical-use practices in southern Pennsylvania. The farmers, like the watermen, found hope and healing for their conflict with environmentalists by embracing and applying their faith to stewardship of the land and to loving their neighbors. 50-minute documentary
The Wonder of Creation: Soil
You’ve stepped in it, swept it off your floors, and enjoyed eating delicious, life-sustaining food that grew from it. So what is it? Some call it dirt, but to a farmer it’s soil. It’s the stuff that sustains all life on earth, yet it’s so common that we can easily forget how precious it is. It’s so rare in the universe that we often overlook its significance to our planet. Take a closer look and you’ll be surprised to discover how very complex soil is. 3-Part Series
The Gift of Pain: Drs. Paul & Margaret Brand
Do you ever wonder about the purpose of pain? Gain fresh insight as you follow the lives of doctors Paul and Margaret Brand and their pioneering work with lepers in India. Their research has led to a whole new understanding of the important role pain plays in our lives, seeing it as a gift, a sensory warning to the body and soul. Armed with their newfound knowledge, the Brands developed innovative medical techniques that allowed those afflicted with leprosy to function in society. 3-Part Series
Africa and The Bible: White Man's Religion?
Are all races created equal in the eyes of God? Down through the ages, certain people have viewed those with darker skin as somehow less human—using skin color as an excuse to enslave and marginalize people. Does God judge us by the color of our skin? Do people of color have any part in the heritage of Christianity, or should they be looking somewhere else for their faith? Join host Wintley Phipps as he follows the “rivers of faith” and uncovers the truth about Africa and the Bible.
COMMON SAINTS
A one-hour dramatic television series based on an urban church that sends out compassionate but sometimes hurting members to handle the tough cases. In the pilot episode, Struggles, teams of two help with homelessness, rage, sexuality issues and their own demons.
Scripts & Trailer.
A GLOBAL VILLAGE: Habitat Around the World,
is a 20-minute video that describes Habitat for Humanity International's Global Village program. You'll
visit a build in Gliwice, Poland and discover how this overseas ministry brings together international teams and local families to help eradicate poverty housing worldwide. For more information or to purchase a copy contact SKUNKFILMS.
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