WINDRIDER FORUM PARTNERS
ANGELUS STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL
The Angelus Student Film Festival honors future filmmakers as they explore and create works that respect the dignity of the human person. Angelus winning films reflect values such as REDEMPTION, SPIRTUALITY, DIGNITY, TOLERANCE, EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, HOPE and TRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.
Named “best bet for student movie makers” by MovieMaker magazine, the Angelus student film festival receives several hundred submissions annually from over 20 countries in animation, documentary and live action.
Angelus alumni include Sundance winners Patricia Cardoso
(“Real Women
Have Curves”) and Tony Bui (“Three Seasons” and “Green
Dragon”). Other Angelus winners include directors Greg Marcks (“11:14” starring
Hilary Swank), Jessica Sharzer (“Speak” on Showtime), and Sabrina
Dhawan (screenwriter “Monsoon Wedding”).
Created in 1996 by Family Theater Productions, the Angelus Student Film Festival continues to showcase and award emerging filmmakers and encourage them to continue creating visionary projects that honor the fundamental dignity of the human person.
Partnering with Windrider Forum and Peter Glenville Foundation, Angelus filmmakers have screened their films in Park City during Sundance, Rome and Toronto and Prague in 2009.
Father Wilfred J. Raymond, CSC
National Director, Family Theater Productions
Father Wilfred (Willy) Raymond, a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross,
has served as National Director of Family Theater Productions since September
2000. The mission of Family Theater Productions, which was founded in Hollywood
in 1947 by Father Patrick Peyton, CSC, now a sainthood candidate, is to
evangelize culture by using mass media to entertain, inspire and educate
families. Family Theater Productions created the Angelus Student Film Festival
in 1996 to showcase and award emerging filmmakers and encourage them to
continue creating visionary projects that honor the fundamental dignity
of the human person.
Father Raymond leads Family Theater in producing and distributing film
programs, including dramas, documentaries and public service announcements,
Family Theater Classic Radio programs, Voz Latina Spanish-language radio
programs, a nationwide public-service billboard prayer campaign; and Hollywood
Prays {Praise}/Prayer-and-Pasta nights for young people in the media industry,
which he created.
A native of Maine, Wilfred Raymond entered the Holy Cross Novitiate in
Bennington, VT, in 1965, making his First Profession on July 16, 1966.
He earned a B.A. in Philosophy in 1967 from Stonehill College, professed
final vows April 1, 1970 at Moreau Seminary, Notre Dame, IN, earned a Master
of Theology degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1971 and was ordained
to the priesthood on April 3, 1971. In addition to English, he speaks French
and Spanish. He served in the administration of Stonehill College for 15
years and in the provincial administration of the Holy Cross order for
six years before going to Family Theater Productions in Hollywood, CA.
Monika Moreno
Director, Angelus Student Film Festival
Angelus Student Film Festival Director, Monika Moreno, has helmed the festival since 1998. A screenwriter from the UCLA Writer’s Program, with a background in film history and marketing, Monika has won or placed in dozens of screenwriting competitions and has had two radio plays produced so far. She interned with the Sundance Institute and was a story analyst for the Nicholl Foundation, Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences for several years. Currently, her third screenplay, "Left at Albuquerque," has been optioned by former CAA agent and now indie producer Amy Salko Robertson.
