Roger Winebarger
Producer
For several years Roger has been involved in screenwriting, motion picture production, and financing. He has optioned screenplays and novels for film production. He has established good, professional relationships in the motion picture industry. In 2002 he was Associate Producer of Cine Excel Entertainments’ “Power Elite”, (video release). He has worked with industry professionals such as Ralph Winter, “X-Men,” “Fantastic 4,” “Planet of the Apes,” Etc. International script Doctor, Bart Gavigan, Creative producer of “Luther,” writer of “End of the Spear.” For the past few years Roger worked with Producer, William Paul McKay, American Trademark Pictures, known for the motion picture “Billy, the early years” and the documentary, “Against All Odds.” In 2010 Roger joined (ICVM) International Christian Visual Media Association, a world wide association of Christians who want to use visual media to spread the message of God’s great love for humanity.
In addition to his production activities, Roger has over 45 years of business management, Commercial Real Estate Brokerage, and Residential Real Estate Management. Roger formed Five Stones Productions to produce Jezebel the Movie plus 4 other feature films.
Rick Garside
Producer
An independent filmmaker, who primarily works as a writer, director or producer. His most recent project was shot in Vietnam and he wrote and co-directed that. It is currently being considered for a limited theatrical release. He has written and co-directed films for PureFlix including ‘Once Upon a Time in Mongolia’, ‘An Unlikely Angel’, he was production supervisor on a series for Netflix, wrote and directed ‘Faith Happens’, a movie similar to ‘Crash’ that deals with spiritual issues. (as well as the series based on the movie for Pure Flix) Through his company, Side By Side Films, he has created and directed a number of award-winning dramas including “Hoomania”, “Thin Ice”, “On The Edge” and the “Jump Start” series. He co-produced “Pat Boone: Hollywood Pilgrim” for the BBC, was UPM for: the Academy-Award nominated IMAX film “Amazon”, the “Newtons Workshop” series for Moody Press, “Present Time” and “Doing Life Together” series for Zondervan, and “Jacob’s Gift” for PAX TV.
He line produced three feature films for World Wide Pictures – “A Vow To Cherish” (Barbara Babcock, Ken Howard & Ossie Davis), “Something To Sing About” (Irma P. Hall, Darius McCrary, Tamara Mowry, John Amos) and “Road To Redemption.” (Pat Hingle, Julie Condra, Jay Underwood, Wes Studi, Leo Rossi) Rick directed the second unit stunt and helicopter sequences in their film “The Climb” (Dabney Colman, Ned Vaughn & Jason George).
Brian Godawa
Producer
Brian Godawa is an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter and best-selling author of supernatural epic Bible novels. Screenwriter. Brian Godawa is an award-winning screenwriter of Hollywood movies for the past 20 years. He is known for writing the script for the recent controversial feature film My Son Hunter (2022), a political satire about Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” that was universally hated in Left Wing Media, but lauded by famous conservatives like Tucker Carlson and has an audience score of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. Mr. Godawa wrote the award-winning feature film, To End All Wars (2001), starring Kiefer Sutherland. It was awarded the Commander in Chief Medal of Service, Honor and Pride by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, won the first Heartland Film Festival and showcased the 2003 Cannes Film Festival Cinema for Peace. Mr. Godawa wrote the screenplay for the award-winning feature film, Alleged (2011), about the Scopes Monkey Trial, starring Brian Dennehy as Clarence Darrow and Fred Thompson as William Jennings Bryan. It won best narrative feature and actor awards in six major film festivals. He also adapted to film The Visitation (2006), a best-selling Christian horror novel by author Frank Peretti for famous producer Ralph Winter (X-Men, Wolverine). He currently has two Bible movies in development at Sony Pictures Affirm Films. One on the book of Ruth and the other on the life of Jesus.
Author. Brian’s series of Bible novels have sold over 500,000 units and $6 million in retail sales since 2012. The first novel of the series, Noah Primeval, has been in the #1 Best-Seller spot or the Top 5 of Biblical Fiction for the past ten years—and still to this day. His series of 15 novels have regularly dominated the Top 10 and 20 of Biblical Fiction and Christian Fantasy categories. Jezebel: Harlot Queen of Israel is part of those series. His popular non-fiction book, Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment (InterVarsity Press) is in its 13th printing, is translated into four other languages (Polish, Portugese, Chinese, Indonesian), and is used as a textbook in schools around the U.S.
