Christian Movie Connect (CMC) is an interview podcast venue that showcases the major voices in the Christian film industry. Hosted by media personality Cheryl Ariaz Wicker, CMC interviews filmmakers, actors, screenwriters and other Christian film industry newsmakers in the country and worldwide. Podcast interviews are filmed at leading Christian industry events such as National Religious Broadcasters Convention, Biola Media Conference, Gideon Media Arts Conference and Film Festival, International Christian Visual Media (ICVM) Catalyst Conference and other Christian media events. Upcoming CMC episodes will feature Bobby Downes (“Like Dandelion Dust,” “Six: The Mark Unleashed”), Jerry Jameson (“Raise the Titanic,” “Airport ’77,” “Murder, She Wrote”), Ken Wales (“Amazing Grace,” “Christy”), Bob Waliszewski (PluggedIn Online), Dave Christiano, Cooke Pictures’ Phil Cooke, Columbia Pictures’ Devon Franklin (“Jumping the Broom”), Walden Media’s Michael Flaherty, 20th Century Fox’s Simon Swart, and Jenn Gotzen (“Frost,” “Nixon,” “Doonby”).
CMC brings interviews from the most prominent film industry and media events in the country, including National Religious Broadcasters Convention, Biola Media Conference, International Christian Visual Media Association Catalyst Conference, and the Gideon Media Arts Conference and Film Festival. CMC is also available for film set visits and red carpet premieres. Contact Cheryl@ChristianMovieConnect.com for more information.
ABOUT THE HOST:
Cheryl Ariaz Wicker is an award-winning film producer and celebrity interviewer who has more than a decade of experience interviewing celebrities, including recording artists, authors, speakers, political leaders, filmmakers and actors. Among Cheryl’s interviewees in the recent past are Dove Award-winning recording artists Steven Curtis Chapman, Third Day and Mercy Me; Judge “Joe” Brown of the popular syndicated CBS court show of the same name; actor John Schneider; Sherwood Pictures’ Stephen Kendrick; and best-selling author/nutrition expert Jordan Rubin, and Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Billy Graham; and many others. As an entertainment publicist, Cheryl is also the owner of Premier1Studios, an entertainment media and public relations agency based in Monroe, Louisiana. She specializes in promoting and producing redeeming movies, having most recently produced the faith-based film “Flag of My Father,” featuring John Schneider GiGi Erneta, Andrew Sensenig and William Devane, which garnered the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2011 GI Film Festival and has aired on TBN.
