Source: International Mission Board, February 22, 2017<\/p>\n
Every year when the list of Oscar nominees is released, I scour it to find obscure titles tucked away in each category. One group that is always full of gems is \u201cBest Foreign Language Film.\u201d The five movies included are selected from the best of the best that the international film community has to offer. Foreign films offer me something most of the Hollywood-produced ones don\u2019t\u2014a glimpse into a different culture\u2019s worldview. Although I live and serve in Africa, a submission from Australia caught my attention this year.<\/p>\n
Tanna<\/a>, directed by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler and filmed on the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, is a classic Romeo and Juliet tale of forbidden love. However, since the story was conceived and acted by the indigenous people of Yakel, it\u2019s full of insights into their values, fears, and attempts (and failures) to answer the questions of life.<\/p>\n The challenge the characters in Tanna<\/em> confront\u2014what cultural norms must be abandoned to preserve life\u2014is similar to one Christians ministering cross-culturally often face: What elements of a culture must be abandoned in order to follow Christ?<\/p>\n Watching films created in different cultural contexts helps me evaluate my own cultural biases and appreciate the diversity of life in our world.<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story<\/a> and another recent IMB article about biblically faithful contextualization<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb Readers might also be interested the film The Enemy God<\/em>, recently made available for streaming and download<\/a>. Want training in film making? Check out the news about the Academy of Frontier Media and Arts<\/a> (with thanks to Brigada for the tip!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: International Mission Board, February 22, 2017 Every year when the list of Oscar nominees is released, I scour it to find obscure titles tucked away in each category. One group that is always full of gems is \u201cBest Foreign Language Film.\u201d The five movies included are selected from the best of the best that … Continue reading VANUATU: How Cultural Imperialism Obscures the Gospel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6998,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions\/6998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}