In the midst of a Tsunami of families facing hardship, precious single moms and their children are escaping the mean streets of Skid Row and finding refuge at Union Rescue Mission’s Hope Gardens Family Center. It’s a place where single moms can exchange fear for hope and the opportunity for a new life in a safe, caring environment.

Beatriz | Stories from Skid Row from Union Rescue Mission on Vimeo.

To help tell the story of this process, we produced a short documentary that follows Beatriz, a young single mother, as she transitions both physically and emotionally into her new home. This is a short in the ongoing “Stories from Skid Row” series that we do for LA’s Union Rescue MIssion.

Music was graciously provided by Eluvium – www.eluvium.net
Tracks: “The Unfinished”, “The End”, and “Taken”

If you haven’t heard the news, Godtube.com is now Tangle.com, the network where Christians can connect to one another along with churches and other faith-based groups.

Godtube has turned a new leaf changing everything from the intuitive new user-friendly design, to the sleek, eye-catching aesthetic; even the name is different- Tangle, remniscent of the John 15 and the reference to the “tangled vines.”

A conversation with Lauren Brock, Media Coordinator for Tangle.com, revealed a similar passion for quality that Deidox aspires to and Tangle is moving toward:

“We don’t want to be just a second-rate ‘Christian version’ of something that already exists … We don’t want to drive people away from YouTube or Facebook or anything like that, those things are great!”

But ultimately Tangle, like other social networks, seeks to provide a place where content can be shared by people with similar interests.

Today, the weekly Tangle Newsletter went out! And featured in it was “Deidox | Lindsay.” Click on the screenshot belowto read the whole newsletter:

The Deidox team members are going to be screening a Deidox film in a main session and teaching a seminar called “How to Tell Your Story through New Media – and Save Money” at Idea Camp, February 27th & 28th.

Here is an excerpt taken from the site:

The team from Chronicle Project will talk about video production and distribution strategies and techniques. We will also discuss successful on-line media tools available to help deliver your story to your audience. This would be helpful for non-profits/for profit organizations, filmmakers, or anyone trying to figure out how to share their new idea to a broader audience.

If you are going to Idea Camp, join us Friday @ 8:30.

We have been receiving many compliments and and positive reviews since Deidox launched last month. Check out some of the things that are being said:

In our world, stories aren’t just orally transmitted like in the days of old. They aren’t just Jesus telling his disciples about a metaphorical farmer. It’s not a bad idea, and sometimes this is a great option. But in our world, stories can take you so close to a different life that you can feel it.

However you tell it, it’s important that you prioritize these stories so people can understand and believe that as humans, we’re capable of so much. Perhaps you need to use a story from Deidox or the ever-popular Nooma. Or it could be that you need the pastor to interview a member of your congregation about their time at the soup kitchen.

- Josh Cody, Church Marketing Sucks
Click here to see the entire review!

Think of Deidox… as short narrative-driven films featuring glimpses of the Kingdom at work in our midst. In other words, these are documentaries of the Missio Dei in action. Not only are they stories told through a great medium, but they display the power of the imagination when lead by God.

The point of these films is to inspire the viewers to “to realize anew how big and active God is, how He is reaching and changing lives in all countries…” as well as support those individuals whose stories are being told through the films.”

- C. Wess Daniels, Gathering In the Light
Click here to see the entire review!

One thing we know about the 20-something generation is that they are moved by story and especially stories of God being active.  The days of ministry simple doing using apologetics and propositional truths to share their message are largely over.  If your church wants to reach out effectively to this generation this might be a great resource to check out and see how it might foster interaction and discussion.”

- Lars Rood, Relevant Pew
Click here to see the entire review!

To visit the reviews on the Deidox website, visit www.Deidox.com/press/reviews.

Dont’ forget to attend one of our live webcasts:

Thursday, February 12th at 9AM, 10AM, Noon, 1PM (PST)

Happy Valentine’s Week!

February has had a busy begining for the Chronicle Project Team. Tesfaye was accepted to another film festival last week, making Canada the fourth country the film will be screened in this year! If you haven’t seen the film yet, visit Eden Reforestation Projects and view the “video” section or click here to watch it in the “client” section of the CP site.

The Union Rescue Mission’s winter shelter also provided us with the story of John, a beneficiary and volunteer of the winter shelter in Burbank:

For those of you who have been following us at Chronicle Project, you know that we’ve been working behind the scenes on many new media and web campaigns for a while now. Well, we’ve decided it’s time to go public. We’re off to the Blogworld & New Media Expo (the biggie blogger convention) and Godblogcon. We have some current projects we’re excited to talk (Documentaries for the Eden Reforestation Projects) and a docs/new website launching Oct 1 for Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles).

And, we have a project called Deidox that goes into production in 2 weeks. We’ve been developing it for around 10 months now. But we’ll write about that later.

More importantly, we’re heading to vegas to learn more about this thing called the “Internet” and to meet some of the bloggers who run it. So if you’re headed to blogworld and reading this look us (Brent or Dan). We’d love to chat.

Here’s a picture from the road of the mac fcp editing setup. Evidently I’m always editing something, even when in vegas.