Here's our new video, shown this weekend:

We're excited to be wrapping up a ten minute video this week that will be played at the Qwest Center in Omaha on Saturday September 11th, as part of the event at which Fr. John Corapi will be the key speaker.

The event is to raise money for renovating St. Peter Catholic Church in Omaha and the video is a celebration of the parish, called "Restoring the Sacred in Omaha."

When complete we'll be sure to post the video on our youtube channel and in the screening room on this web site.

Don just told me a cool story about how our St. John Cantius video touched one of our viewers.

There was this nice lady in NJ who was having trouble sleeping last week and got up to watch some EWTN. It turns out that they rebroadcasted our episode at 3 am or so, and she told Don that it really lifted her spirits. Their pastor was trying to restore the sacred in their parish and feeling frustrated so she called us and asked for 2 copies of the DVD, one for them and one for the priest.

Don sent her four copies, and asked her to say a prayer to her guardian angel and then give the third and fourth away to whoever she felt inspired to give them to. 

Pretty cool.

UPDATE:As it turns out EWTN re-aired the program the next day at the more reasonable time of 6:30 pm ET. We received many calls and e-mails all requesting a copy of the program and offering donations, and we have been responding to those requests and sending out DVDs for several days now, more than 25 mailed already, with more to go. Thanks everyone for responding so favorably to our documentary on Saint John Cantius yet again.

Last week we had a busy week of filming. We spent three full days filming a coprporate video for Performance Trust, and then on Thursday we filmed Fr. Peter Cook for our latest video "Restoring the Sacred in Omaha" (just a working title), which will be shown publicly in September. Thanks, Great Plains Motion Picture guys for all your help with the filming last week!

The shoot with Father went great too. Lots of good stuff. Too much, as usual, for this time-strapped video editor. But we look forward to showing off our work soon! Thanks for all the time, Fr. Cook!

The Corpus Christi procession went great! It was everything we hoped it would be. We've got some wonderful footage. Pictures coming soon!

Why Are We Shooting This? 

We're excited to announce this shoot begins production on an extremely high end, fast paced, investigative documentary look at the Real Presence. This new episode of ON ASSIGNMENT for EWTN will report on recent and past purported Eucharistic miracles while profiling what the Real Presence means to everyone from the Pope to the person in the pew. The Corpus Christi procession will tie all parts of our new documentary together.

More New Productions!

We are also developing an ON ASSIGNMENT that will document the restoration of the sacred at Saint Peter Church in Omaha. Another, shorter program on this same topic will be produced and shown on a huge screen to the many thousands of people who will turn out to see and hear Father John Corapi speak live and in person in Omaha on September 11th, 2010. Segments from the Corpus Christi procession will play key roles in both of these productions. And finally, EWTN would like us to produce an ON ASSIGNMENT segment that focuses solely on the Corpus Christi procession itself.

So You Can See Why I Say This is a crucial shoot for StoryTel. This is why we're pulling out all the stops. This one full day of shooting is essential to the success of two, and very important to the success of at least two more StoryTel productions. Plus images from this event will continue to find their way into our productions for many years to come.

Please Pray For Good Weather On Sunday, June 6th!

In our last post we told you about the video shoot we had that day with Archbishop Raymond Burke. That filming went extremely well, so well that tonight the Miles Christi priests will be showing some excerpts at a fund raising dinner.

Here's what will be shown:

Well, maybe. 

This week Don and our film crew interviewed Archbishop Raymond Burke for a full hour for our in-progress episode of On Assignment about Miles Christi. The Archbishop, soon to be Cardinal, was recently appointed to the office of Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, a Vatican position equivalent to that of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. So, just interviewing him at all was a big deal. 

The shoot went well, and he even gave us more time to interview him for our longer term project about the Real Presence, since he also happens to be a board member and spiritual director for the Real Presence Eucharistic Education and Adoration Association.

Don told me that his mother made him promise to give the Archbishop a copy of our Saint John Cantius documentary, but Don decided to do one better. He gave him two DVDs. He asked him, if he thought it was good enough, to please give the second copy of the video to the Pope. Archbishop Burke said he would.

Cool, huh?

We're pleased to announce that our On Assignment episode, Saint John Cantius, Restoring the Sacred, aired in the Detroit area recently on the Catholic Television Network, which reaches over one million potential viewers.

Catholic Television Network of Detroit announced it will air “Restoring the Sacred: St. John Cantius,” a StoryTel ON ASSIGNMENT documentary about the inspiring and stunning revival of a Chicago parish that took place not long ago. The program will air three times in January to the Detroit Catholic station’s more than one million viewers. The show will broadcast on the following dates: January 19th, at 2pm EST; January 23rd, 7:30pm EST; and January 28th, 2pm EST. 

Here's the full story. 

Watch the full program online.

We're pleased to announce that our latest On Assignment Episode, Salem Christian School, All Things Are Possible, is available now online in its entirety. Watch it below.

 Feel free to copy the embed code from the Menu and put the video on your own Web site. A link back to our site would be appreciated. 

It's permanent home is here on our screening room page.