Mediterranean Islands Film Team

This team will use their skills, training, interests, and experience in film to help tell the stories of three specific language groups in Europe (France and Italy), the speakers of the Corsican, Sardinian, and Sicilian languages. Through film, this team will try to make these language groups, who are often completely unknown or “invisible” to the worldwide Christian community, “visible” to those, who are less familiar with the indigenous minority language groups of Europe. This team will shoot video, which shows the natural areas of these language groups, with an emphasis on their history, language, culture, spirituality, and identity. This will be accomplished both through personal interviews with speakers of these languages, as well as images that will show more about their language and culture. The hope is that these videos will help make the spiritual needs of these people groups apparent for prayer while also serving as a means of calling Christians in other countries, who might be open to God’s leading, into missions service among one of these language groups. This team will spend about five days in each location, followed by a retreat for editing/producing videos about these language groups, which can be used immediately, before their debriefing weekend and return to their home countries.

Special requirements: Students that serve on this project should be creative and artistic, having a passion and skills in film. Knowledge of Italian/French would be helpful, but not required. Students on this team should be self-starters and willing to engage in conversations with anyone.