 |
Complete List
with Descriptions |
900107-901230
THE FUNDAMENTALS
| ID: |
900107 |
| Description: |
In an attempt to appear successful,
a sports talk show host is awakened to reality by a new coach who has taken a team with a
five year losing streak into the playoffs his first year. The coach quietly points out
that in the effort to impress others, the basic of fundamentals are often over-looked even
though they are the keys to success. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
2 * + 1 VO |
| Time: |
12 min. |
THE SWAN SONG
| ID: |
900114 |
| Description: |
A street mime is taken aback when a
stranger, shows genuine concern for her decision to quite her performances. Although she
feels her work stems from her own inner desires and she has made no impact on mankind, she
learns through a letter from the man, that a small observer from a nearby building has
been uplifted by the performances while fighting an illness. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
ESTABLISHING A REPUTATION
| ID: |
900121 |
| Description: |
Two senators are at odds with one
another when one does an about face and decides to ‘lay low’ on the
anti-abortion issue. Her counterpart who has remained committed to the cause, pressures
her into revealing the true motive behind her decision in that it may prove political
detrimental to her uprising career. |
| Category: |
Drama, Melodrama |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
HE GIVES SLEEP TO THOSE HE
LOVES
| ID: |
900128 |
| Description: |
After suffering from an angina
attack, a hospitalized businessman fails to heed the warnings of the nurse who insists he
rest. After removing his phone (and the one he stole from a nearby patient), the nurse is
resolved to injecting him with a sedative after returning to find the patient performing
jumping jacks before his business associate in a futile attempt to prove he is well. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
3 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
BEING THERE
| ID: |
900204 |
| Description: |
Instead of token gestures, a friend
goes out of his way to emotionally support his friend who has recently lost his job. We
can’t always understand the pain of other lives, but we can always be there for them
as a quiet friend. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
3 * |
| Time: |
5 min. |
LET’S BE A ROLE MODEL
| ID: |
900211 |
| Description: |
The results of a game show reveal
the devastating results of decisions made without calculating the risks involved after the
players achieve a high rank of social superiority within the game. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
6 * + 1 VO |
| Time: |
10 min. |
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
| ID: |
900225 |
| Description: |
In the early morning hours, a woman
confronts her boyfriend as he attempts to face bridges he had burned in the past with his
father and former relationships. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
10 min. |
WHY WOULD I HAVE GIVEN YOU MY
NAME
| ID: |
900304 |
| Description: |
Using pest control as an example, a
father explains to his rebellious teenage son, the reasons why he must adhere to family
rules, the main reason being: his love for his son. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
5 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
SENTENCE FRAGMENTS
| ID: |
900311 |
| Description: |
Having just moved his family to
their new home, a man becomes frustrated as he tries to gain some semblance of order. In
the course of unpacking he becomes frustrated as he becomes more and more aware of the
many uncompleted tasks left unfinished in his life. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
5 * |
| Time: |
10 min. |
THE NEW FRIEND
| ID: |
900318 |
| Description: |
After preparing and serving her
dinner date a meal in her kitchen, an extremely insecure woman is unsure of how to
converse in a one-on-one. Her date identifies and makes her aware of the difference
between her desire to fulfill her own needs over and above focusing on who she really is
inside. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
SLUBGLUB
| ID: |
900401 |
| Description: |
Captain Abysmal, one of two
abominable characters, hounds his subordinate, Slubglub with the grand design to divide
and conquer any effort where people pull together for the good of a common cause. He
learns of Slubglub’s attempt to foul up a relationship which backfired causing the
individuals to strengthen the bond between them and send Slubglub back out to ‘divide
and conquer.’ |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
JACK’S BIG VACUUM
| ID: |
900408 |
| Description: |
Blood, brain, and pancreas cells
become disillusioned when Jack, the owner of the body, feeds them fast food
‘garbage’ as opposed to healthy foods to help them function properly. This
attempt to fill the hunger vacuum meets with resentment and threatens a revolt resulting
in a shut down of systems and, parallels the real vacuum in Jack’s life. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
5 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
A CALL FOR HELP
| ID: |
900422 |
| Description: |
A workaholic mother and father fail
to heed a message to become involved with their two small children. They have the same
vision of the children first; as teens, then in trouble with the law when an officer
appears to inform them of the son’s arrest on drug charges and the daughter who is
living with a cult leader and with her child under the care of social services worker.
When reality returns, both continue with putting off involvement as before. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
7 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
THE MIRROR
| ID: |
900429 |
| Description: |
Low on self-esteem, a young girl is
approached by a stranger. The girl holds a mirror that is her self-esteem. Unfortunately,
her parents literally cover the mirror that mars her view of herself. The stranger wipes
away the mars with kindness and gains her confidence where shortly thereafter his true
motive is exposed as he offers her drugs. When a child has a damaged self-image, they are
susceptible to whomever takes the time to clean the mirror. |
| Category: |
Drama, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
5 * |
| Time: |
6 min. |
THE PACKAGE DEAL
| ID: |
900506 |
| Description: |
The dilemma of trying to work out a
conflict with his step-son has a step-father concerned that he may alienate his own
daughter in the process. His wife suggests that perhaps he is expecting too much too soon,
as life doesn’t always ‘work out in neat little packages’ though wanting
the relationships to work out is half the battle. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
7 min. |
YOU’RE A WONDERFUL MOM
| ID: |
900513 |
| Description: |
When everything seems to be going
wrong, a mom, wishing she had never been born, has her wish granted by an angle. After
seeing the negative result this would have on her family, she desperately asks to be
restored to her former life. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
4 * + 3 extras |
| Time: |
8 min. |
ONE FISHING TRIP, TWO STORIES
| ID: |
900520 |
| Description: |
A grown son searches through his
father’s memorabilia looking for something to assist him with his father’s
eulogy. As he fondly remembers his childhood, it is revealed that his father was extremely
absent on the home front. When he comes across a diary,here calls one of the greatest
moments spent with his father on a fishing trip. However, when he reads his father’s
curt remembrance of the day, he is compelled to leave, dejected. The things we pass on can
have a lasting impact on our children’s lives. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
1 * |
| Time: |
5 min. |
PATIO ENCOUNTERS IN YOUR OWN
MIND
| ID: |
900603 |
| Description: |
After the service, the conscience
(Pastor’s VO) of a longtime church goer challenges him to meet and welcome a couple,
new to the church. He first runs the scenario in his mind several times ending with
negative results. When he finally puts forth the effort, he discovers it wasn’t as
difficult as he initially believed it would be. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
10 min. |
THE OSTRICHES AND THE EAGLET
| ID: |
900610 |
| Description: |
An eaglet confesses to a group of
ostriches, that she has been plagued by dreams depicting a lifestyle much different than
that of what she has been living with the ostriches. At first the ostriches are astonished
by different aspects of the dream, but come to realize and support her in her need to be.
We can’t expect everyone to be just like us. God has plans for each of us to follow,
we need to respect that. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
5 * |
| Time: |
10 min. |
THE ROLE MODEL
| ID: |
900617 |
| Description: |
A scene is played and replayed by a
‘husband’ and ‘wife’ in an attempt to reveal a good fatherly role
model to three children. He clings to his work facade as she strives to redirect his focus
to the home front. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
2 * + 3 extras |
| Time: |
8 min. |
TIMELESS LETTERS
| ID: |
900624 |
| Description: |
A couple leaving on their honeymoon
via time travel are inadvertently separated with the husband traveling 300 years into the
past and, the wife, 300 years into the future. Letters on parchment are miraculously
forwarded from the husband to his wife who mercilessly attempts to explain their
significance to a droid and new found futuristic friend. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
5 * + 1 VO |
| Time: |
10 min. |
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA?
| ID: |
900701 |
| Description: |
A middle class couple go about their
lives oblivious as to the vast quantities of blessings bestowed upon them,even though
it’s pointed out that the payment of the debt is too vast to comprehend. A dramatic
look at the power and grace of the trinity in our lives. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
3 * |
| Time: |
7 min. |
A VERY STRANGE TRIAL
| ID: |
900708 |
| Description: |
The bride has been raped. The case
lies before the court wherein the answers to the line of questioning from the prosecutor
to the defendant highlights the love the defendant has for the bride. He, as well, is
incensed with both the perpetrator who beguiling her into entering her home, as well as
with the bystanders who failed to help her. The end reveals that although the prosecutor
was the actual perpetrator, the defendant is the one on trial. |
| Category: |
Drama, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
3 * |
| Time: |
10 min. |
THE WAR BRIDE
| ID: |
900715 |
| Description: |
A man tries to rekindle a romance
with a woman who awaits the return of her husband from the war and whose husband was the
man’s best friend. She is steadfast in her determination to remain faithful and
ultimately hands him his walking papers and shows him the door. As he leaves he quips of
his ultimate return to try again. |
| Category: |
Drama, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
10 min. |
A REAL HEARTFELT CONVERSATION
| ID: |
900722 |
| Description: |
A mime portrays a talk with Christ
within her heart regarding the events in her life and her concerns for her friend. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
1 * + 1 VO |
| Time: |
6 min. |
A VERY EXCLUSIVE CLUB
| ID: |
900805 |
| Description: |
Having done what he felt was fairly
well in life, a pompous and obnoxious man attempts to gain entry to an exclusive club.
When others of whom he feels are substandard to his existence, gain entry, he becomes
agitated that he is not on the guest list not realizing (until it is pointed out to him),
that he not only refused prior invitations, he never bothered to take the time to find out
who the owner actually was. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
CHANCES
| ID: |
900812 |
| Description: |
A son attempts to post bail and
offers his father an opportunity to have another ‘chance’ when his incarcerated
father is unrelenting in his pity-me attitude. The verbal attacks from the father of the
‘chances’ he never had to lift himself out of the squalor he wallows in, are
countered by a firm recount from the son who points out the positive decisions he (the
son) made as a child when the same opportunity to become one of the down trodden was just
as real. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
3 * |
| Time: |
7 min. |
THE BIG QUESTION
| ID: |
900819 |
| Description: |
A man proposing to his girlfriend,
feels hindered in that as she has just attained her doctorate, he suddenly feels
intellectually inadequate, an obstacle not easily overlooked. She quells his fears by
illustrating in that above and beyond the intellectual aspect of their relationship there
lies the deeper emotional consideration of being human as well. The love they have for one
another. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
WALLFLOWERS
| ID: |
900909 |
| Description: |
A young man runs a scenario through
his mind as to what could possibly happen if he were to make acquaintances with a young
lady while at a dance. The thoughts of the relationship first interfering with his college
studies and, later leading to marriage and children crescendos when he imagines his
fictitious son totaling his fictitious BMW. In addition, the young lady reveals that she
is equally neurotic. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
2 * + 2 VO |
| Time: |
7 min. |
STRANGE HEAD-FELLOWS
| ID: |
900916 |
| Description: |
Two aspects of a personality
(Protector and Gambler) argue over who has the best means of proceeding in the decision
making process. Unable to agree, they come to realize that neither one is equipped to
solely render a wise judgment. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
2 * + 1 VO |
| Time: |
8 min. |
THE PREPARATION PROCESS
| ID: |
900930 |
| Description: |
Two laboratory technicians run
behavior modification tests on a lab specimen (man). They prepare a sensitive and caring
man for the reality, as they see it, for the modern life. This causes him to convert from
being a trusting, outgoing person into an introverted and suspicious man as he builds
walls to protect himself from harm. The standards of this world compared to God’s
love and safety breaks down those walls. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
3 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
DEBBIE’S COURT (PART 1)
| ID: |
901021 |
| Description: |
When a working mother suddenly
realizes she has forgotten to give her son his lunch before he left for school, she
becomes psychologically paralyzed and envisions herself within a courtroom where her
family portrays the members of the legal system. With her mother as judge, husband as
prosecutor, and children and mother-in-law as witnesses, a trial begins which portrays
areas of her life where she believes she let her family down. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
7 * |
| Time: |
12 min. |
DEBBIE’S COURT (PART II)
| ID: |
901028 |
| Description: |
The trial continues however, the
husband is now the defense attorney and the story portrays a more supportive family who
loves the mother/wife regardless of her short comings. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
7 * |
| Time: |
12 min. |
THE HERITAGE
| ID: |
901230 |
| Description: |
The awesomness of God’s grace,
love, and mercy is poured out and revealed to a woman through the lives of four women:
Sarah, Ruth, Bathsheeba and Mary. They tell her of God’s promises and the fulfillment
of those promises. They are all part of the heritage of Jesus Christ which is offered to
each one of us for the asking. |
| Category: |
Drama, Melodrama |
| Actors: |
1 * |
| Time: |
45 min. |
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