Video Description:

Winner-Young Adult Category! Eventually the burnout in America was too much for this cradle Catholic. Enough was enough, so Fr. John and his friends ‘medicated’ by going outdoors as one option in high school. God’s blessings upon the state of Colorado are often reaped by its locals in the high country as we natives call the sacred tundra and crisp treeline (where Deer turn to Elk for all you non-natives). It was here, in mountains similar to the Italian Alps, where Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati ventured, and where Fr. John began to find answers to this life’s wild journey on the front line. By the end of this story from Fr. John Nepil, the essence of adventure is clear, resolute, and addicting, as proven by the crowd on top of Quandary Peak; a Colorado 14er that rises 14,265 feet above sea level.
Why would a group of college students follow a man of faith to the top of a mountain–and a group of CU-Boulder students none the less! A collection of youth eager for life, fun, adventure…and purpose, yes! The images from the video above shed light to that purpose-driven college experience that most students miss out on, but which Fr. John is quickly sharing with the JPII Generation, and beyond. Watch, listen, and soak in the beauty of creation with Aquinas Alpine!

Contest: 2013 Goodness Reigns “Share the Story”

Created By: Seth DeMoor
Location: Englewood, Colorado, USA
Experience Level: Moderate
Filmmaker Age: 27
Video Length: 3 min 52 sec

Credits:
Filming Crew: Seth DeMoor & Joseph DeMoor. Special thanks to Fr. John Nepil

Filmmaker Bio: Seth DeMoor’s first encounter with the Catholic faith came from his mother and father high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
Sunday Mass was always part of the family’s weekly happenings. Even though he grew up at 8,000 feet above sea level, this did not translate to a heightened longing for the Catholic faith. The Catholic calisthenics at Mass never traveled from his bones to his heart. Catholicism at the end of high school left him wondering what is the Catholic faith? How does one live it out daily?
On January 3rd, 2010, Seth DeMoor ‘cast into the deep’ on a 2,400-mile bicycle ride across the United States from Florida to Colorado. Why? Because at the University of Colorado, Seth encountered stories from people of authenticity, who were young and all about sacrificing their lives for the Catholic faith. It was a beautiful encounter, so much so that he knew the world needed to hear their stories. And so was born www.OneBillionStories.com.

YOUCAT/Catechism Inspiration: YOUCAT 66: “Was it part of God’s plan for men to suffer and die?”
God does not want men to suffer and die. God’s original idea for man was paradise: life forever and peace between God and man, their environment, and between man and woman.

Video Description:

Winner-Missionary Spirit Category! The Mutunga Partnership is a micro finance organisation that is committed to helping the poorest help themselves. Seven years ago, Morris Stuart felt inspired to begin an organisation that saw dignity and respect given to the poorest of the poor. He feels that faith requires action. I was privileged enough to join him on his latest trip to Kenya to meet some clients and hear their stories. This film reflects but a fraction of my experience yet does speak of how moved I was to see, at the grass roots level, the impact of one human being, obedience, faith and imagination!

Contest: 2013 Goodness Reigns “Share the Story”

Created By: Amy Dwight
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Experience Level: Moderate
Filmmaker Age: 29
Video Length: 6 min 17 sec

Filmmaker Bio:
Amy Dwight has completed Post Graduate study in Performance Creation/Animateuring at the Victorian College of the Arts, Australia. Her areas of training include theatrical practice and methodology, acting, physical theatre, lighting design, directing, performance making and sound design. She has studied writing at Vancouver Film School, Canada, and has written scripts for both film and stage. Amy is vocally trained in both classical and musical theatre and, as a musician, specialises in a variety of instruments. She is a trained dancer of 13 years. Amy works as a photographer in the corporate and private sectors and has been both a performer and creator for various theatrical productions. She freelances as a private artistic director and has been animateur for three Theatre in Education companies, ‘Solace arts’ (Melbourne), ‘Fine Edge Theatre’ (Perth) and ‘Aspire Works’ (Melbourne). Her desire to bring inspiration and education through the arts also led her to a full-time teaching position in Perth, Western Australia. Recently Amy has been employed as Producer of Indimax Productions and looks forward to developing her skills in the film industry.

Cast and Crew:
Narrator – Morris Stuart
Cast – The Mutunga Partnership Clients
Music – Ladysmith Black (music used with permission)
Director – Amy Dwight
DOP – Amy Dwight
Editor – Amy Dwight

YOUCAT/Catechism Inspiration:
Part Three, Section Two, Chapter Two: You Shall Love your Neighbour as Yourself. Article 7, Love For The Poor.

Video Description:

Winner-Teen Category! This is a video with three parts–stop motion, time lapse, and a story–answers YOUCAT Question #469: “What is Prayer?” The story follows one teen’s journey of discovering different ways and the motivation to pray daily.

Contest: 2013 Goodness Reigns “Share the Story”

Created By: Tracy Tremblay
Parish/School Name: Quiet Waters
Location: North Collins, New York, USA
Experience Level: Moderate
Filmmaker Age: 15
Video Length: 4 min 23 sec

Credits:
Quiet Waters and Michael Cygan, Anthony Batt, Hanna Franco, Mary Clare and Richard O’Brien, Kevin Rodgers, Hannah Pietras, Anne and Elizabeth Pivarunas, Laura Tremblay, and Mara and Anna Wicket.

Filmmaker Bio: This group of teenagers got together over the summer to learn about the YOUCAT. We also learned to use the media to spread the Gospel. We thought it would be a great idea to make a video on the YOUCAT and submit it for this contest.

YOUCAT/Catechism Inspiration: This film supports a non-profit that promotes JPII’s Message of a Gospel of Life by adoption, outreach to single mothers and children in need, tuition-free classical Catholic education, and other charitable services

Video Description:

This video introduces the YOUCAT as a relevant and vital tool to study and for living out the Catholic faith.

Contest: 2013 Goodness Reigns “Share the Story”

Created By: John Reyes
Location: La Crescenta, California, USA
Experience Level: Moderate
Filmmaker Age: 24
Video Length: 3 min 30 sec

Filmmaker Bio:
Crux Sacra Productions (CSP) is a creative collective of three Catholic young adults from Incarnation Catholic Church in Glendale, CA, brought together by a unified desire to manifest the “new evangelization” inspired by the special charism and commissioning of Blessed Pope John Paul II, most especially to the youth and young adults of the Church through digital media.

Cast and Crew:
In order of appearance
Matthew Carew – Agent Francis
Carlos Tobón – Agent Carlos
April Saranglao – M
John Reyes – Q
Ron Cordero – Evil Agent
Jon Macaraeg – Evil Agent
Ian Soto – Evil Agent

Extras:
Andrew Reyes
Stacey Wuthrich
Cyl Gabrielle Jarasa
Ryan Mau
Siegfried Cardeno
Kristina Carden0

YOUCAT/Catechism Inspiration:
The area of the YOUCAT that inspired our film was the forward by Pope Benedict XVI. In it, he encourages youth to “study this Catechism with passion and perseverance,” especially with “how deeply the community of faith has been wounded recently.” We decided to create a video that would introduce the YOUCAT to young people so that they may live out the Holly Father’s message to them.

Video Description:

(Portuguese with English subtitles) Nowadays in Europe there is much talk about a “Vocations Crisis”, as the number of priests and sisters have been declining in the last years. In spite of that, the existence of increasingly committed lay people in Church is obvious. We automatically link the word “vocation” with “priestly vocation”, but, in fact, the entire humanity has a vocation, a call from God.
My video is a journalistic approach to exploring the concept of “Vocation” in a deeper meaning.

Contest: 2013 Goodness Reigns “Share the Story”

Created By: Inês Rocha
Location: Maia, Porto, Portugal
Experience Level: Moderate
Filmmaker Age: 21
Video Length: 6 min 52 sec

Filmmaker Bio:
I’m 21 years old, recently graduated in “Communication Sciences: Journalism” at the University of Porto.

I did my curricular internship in Jornal de Notícias, one of the biggest newspapers in Portugal, in its online section. There, I made content production to the website of the newspaper (video and text reports).

During these three months, I developed essential skills to my career: news writing, filmmaking, video editing, synthesis skills, etc.

Before this working experience, however, I tried to develop my skills in other newspapers and in a TV channel. I was a collaborator in Jornal Universitário do Porto, in the webradio Jornalismo Porto Rádio and in the cyberjournal Jornalismo Porto Net. I completed an internship in Canal180, a portuguese TV channel focused on culture and arts.

I am passionate about the audiovisual, the multimedia journalism and about creative writing. I believe it’s possible to make journalism in a creative way and, sometimes, almost artistic. I like to tell stories through images and to use the literary rules to tell real stories.

I believe in the future of a good journalism, which offers new things, in spite of always giving the public what it wants to read. I believe in an educative journalism, which resists the pressure of economic competition.

Also, I’m a Christian and a lay missionary of a congregation (http://www.misionerasdelsantisimo.org/) and I try to use my professional skills to evangelize.

Cast and Crew:
Respondents:
Leonel Claro (missionary priest)
Maricruz Ortiz (missionary sister)
Miguel Peixoto (lay missionary and engineering student)
Torquato (consecrated layman and professor)
Teresa Valente (lay missionary and family doctor)
Ricardo Ascensão (lay missionary and school secretary)

Music:
Dexter Britain – The Time to Run
Spider + Octopus – Deep Sea Diver
Oskar Schuster – Sneeuwland

(The music is under Creative Commons licenses.)

Film by Inês Rocha

YOUCAT/Catechism Inspiration:
I was inspired by the theme of “Vocation,” particularly #138 and #139 of the YOUCAT.

Video Description:

Made by a teen, this is a video on purity and how to achieve it in the heart, soul and mind!

Contest: 2013 Goodness Reigns “Share the Story”

Created By: Renee
Experience Level: Moderate
Filmmaker Age: 17
Video Length: 6 min 59 sec

Filmmaker Bio:
Vlogging from the age of 16, Renee has been on YouTube sharing her daily insights as a Catholic teen for almost two years. She is driven by a desire to show her generation that they are called to be saints TODAY, and that being a teen is not an excuse to “go out, party and live your life the way you want” as today’s culture promotes.

Why ‘Reborn Pure’? Well ladies and gentlemen, that’s her name! The day Renee happened to figure out in 2011 that her name, Renee Catherine, meant ‘Reborn Pure’, was one of the greatest days in her motivation towards sainthood. Her hope of eventual purification in Christ was written in her name. Her parents were not even aware of the name coincidence. Ever since, Renee has been on Facebook and YouTube showing her generation that, “If you know the truth, PURSUE IT, no matter what age you are!” She started and is the administrator of “New Catholic Generation” (http://newcatholicgeneration.com/) and prays it reaches many Catholic teens and supportive adults of today’s generation.

Cast and Crew:
Thank you to my siblings for helping me on some of the tricky parts! Also, I thank all the other young teens on YouTube under “New Catholic Generation” for encouraging me to make this video even though I had only 3 days to do it

Music Credits:
“Neptune” – Gustav Holst
“Valse Triste” – Jean Sibelius
“The Last Spring” – Edvard Greig
“Isle of the Dead” – Sergei Rachmaninoff
“Clair de Lune” – Claude Debussy

YOUCAT/Catechism Inspiration:
The Section on “Purity of Heart” in the Catechism inspired me. Then I also went to the YouCat and discovered what it said about it too!

Video Description:

This video points to the wisdom of Holy Mother Church by pointing out her teaching against artificial contraception–that amidst the confusion and controversy of this issue, the Holy Spirit guides the Church.

Contest: 2013 Goodness Reigns “Share the Story”

Created By: Elisa Torres
Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
Experience Level: Moderate
Filmmaker Age: 20
Video Length: 2 min 32 sec

Credits:
Director and editor: Elisa Torres
Script written by: Elisa & Jonathan Torres
Videographer: Sarah and Elisa Torres
Music by: Matthew Torres

Filmmaker Bio: Grew up in NY. Moved to NC in 2003. Took on film editing as a hobby in 2009. Currently working at Saint Benedict Press with its Catholic Courses Department.

YOUCAT/Catechism Inspiration: The section on Contraception. Catechism of the Catholic Church #2368-2370

Video Description:

“Men of Faith” hopes to convey the importance of prayer for oneself and for others. This video is focused around the lives of three men of faith: the priest who prays for his congregation, the father and head of a household who is in need of prayer for himself and his family, and the man discerning his vocation. With the Year of Faith in mind, we hope this video sparks a revolution for all men of faith, in particular, to stand up and live their faith.

Contest: 2013 Goodness Reigns “Share the Story”

Created By: Rafael Rodarte
Location: Madera, California, USA
Parish/School Name: St. Joachim Catholic Curch
Experience Level: Moderate
Filmmaker Age: 28
Video Length: 5 min 20 sec

Filmmaker Bio:
Rafael Rodarte is a novice filmaker from the Central Valley of California. He began in music and audio recording and in the past few years has also developed in videography. He has taken a few college courses in media production and acquired skills to help his growing passion for film. He has used these skills for his local parish to produce audio and video projects and has put out a few personal short films including a 2011 Goodness Reigns winner, “Covenant”.

Cast and Crew:
Rafael Rodarte – Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Recorder, Song Writer, and Producer
Bernadette Rodarte – Director, Writer, Song Writer andProducer
Alex Garza – Song Writer and Actor
Fr. Gustavo Lopez, OSJ – Actor
Bernard Rieping – Actor
Ana Rieping – Actor
Alex Rieping – Actor
Timothy Rieping – Actor
Zachary Rieping – Actor

YOUCAT/Catechism Inspiration:
Part Four – “How We Should Pray”
Question 487: “Why should we petition God for other people?”

Video Description:

The spiritual life is a struggle and the battlefield is the human heart. We are free to decide, but of a sinful life we should take no part.

Contest: 2013 Goodness Reigns “Share the Story”

Created By: Kelly Butler
Location: Damascus, OR, USA
Experience Level: Moderate
Filmmaker Age: 21
Video Length: 2 min 35 sec

Filmmaker Bio:
Born and raised in Oregon, I am a senior Communication Arts & Theology major at Franciscan University of Steubenville. I am a passionately Catholic artist that seeks a beautiful union between faith and media. Film is my passion; Christ is my Savior.

Cast and Crew:
Written, Directed & Produced by Kelly Butler

YOUCAT/Catechism Inspiration:
Spiritual Warfare. I was speaking to my parish priest and he told me of this really cool analogy between the devil and flies that inspired me to write a poem. Often times we like to share how beautiful the faith is and its positive benefits, which are wonderful, but the reality is that living the Christian life isn’t always easy. We endure much suffering, but it is made beautiful in Christ and it is beyond worth fighting for.

Video Description:

“All Things” is about seeing God in all things of this world. He really is the truth and purpose for all of creation and without Him, we would have nothing. He did all of it for us purely out of love, so what are we going to do for Him?

Contest: 2013 Goodness Reigns “Share the Story”

Created By: Sherwin Acidera
Location: Ewa Beach, Hawaii, USA
Experience Level: Moderate
Filmmaker Age: 22
Video Length: 4 min 02 sec

Credits:
Original Poem by: Katreina Gamil
Featuring: Katreina Gamil
Director: Sherwin Acidera
Producer: Sherwin Acidera
Camera: Sherwin Acidera, Shaun Agtarap
Sound: Shaun Agtarap, Justin Aquino
Editing: Sherwin Acidera

Filmmaker Bio: Sherwin Acidera, director of “All Things”, is currently a senior studying film at the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He enjoys making videos that are positive, allowing the audience to reflect on life. He is also an active catechist, serving the youth at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church and using his gift and talents of media to give all glory to God.

YOUCAT/Catechism Inspiration: The entire Section 1, but more specifically questions 1 & 2 (“For what purpose are we here on earth?” and “Why did God create us?”).