“The Sparrowman” movie filmed in Southwest Kansas

“The Sparrowman” is an independent Christian film that was recently filmed in Liberal, Garden City, and Elkhart, KS and Hooker, Ok. Writer and director, Joel Trujillo originally created the Sparrowman as a comic book at the age of 13 and is now making it into a feature film.

“The Sparrowman” is a feature film about a young, second generation Christian superhero who is struggling with his faith in God. His struggle began after the death of his wife, leaving him to raise their daughter alone. Can the Sparrowman handle being a single parent and fighting crime at the same time, or will he continue to take the law into his own hands with violence and aggression? He soon finds out the answer when he travels back in time to the year 1958. There, he runs into his grandfather, the original Sparrowman, whose life is in danger by someone from the future.

This Christian superhero movie is about faith, hope, salvation and redemption. The movie will be at select Mitchell Theaters in October 2016.

Writer/director Joel Trujillo says, “My hope is that this movie will bring people into a new or deeper relationship with Christ. Your support will help make this project a greater success than my team could do on our own.”

Joel adds, “This film will be my tenth foray into solo movie directing. I have been the recipient of two Telly Awards, a premier award honoring outstanding local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions, and web commercials, videos and films.”

We hope that you will prayerfully consider helping the efforts of Christian film making right here in Southwest Kansas. On behalf of writer and director, Joel Trujillo, and the cast and crew, we thank you for supporting “The Sparrowman.”

For further information about the film or to make a donation, visit www.facebook.com/JFTfilmproductions/ or www.jftfilmproductions.webs.com/donations or www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiOW3lqhc8Q or contact Producer Ron Davis at 620-391-6284

The lead characters in the film are: Zach Carpenter as The Sparrowman, also Raymond Christie as the first Sparrowman and Katrina Spencer as Sliver Blade. A few of the co-stars are: Randal Greenwood, Jeff Crawford, Jason Epp, Pastor Jack Jacob of First Southern Baptist Church, Ron Davis President of Liberal Ministerial Alliance and producer of the film. Also appearing in the film is the late Adam Lamberson, Cash Wheeler, Andy Lovato and Joel Guzman. Director Joel Trujillo does have a cameo appearance as gangster Toothpick Telly. In addition, three of Joel’s children, Karley, Adyen and Chloe appear in the film.

Central Christian Church in Liberal was the location for several film shoots and it acted as a home base of operation for the filming of The Sparrowman. First Baptist Church in Liberal provided their gym for a major scene and The Hooker Soda Fountain & Grill was one of the locations for the 1958 scenes. There were several 50’s vintage classic car owners who helped to recreate the 1958 scenes.

Ron Davis, Producer and actor in the film said, “It has been an awesome experience working with Joel Trujillo on The Sparrowman. He is extremely gifted in cinematography and this film will showcase his talent. I have been privileged to be behind the scene on much of the filming and am very excited to see the finished product. My mission as producer is to do everything I can to make the film a success. My prayer is that those in the Christian community will get behind this movie as well as getting behind JFT Film Productions in order to see this movie to fruition as well encourage us to press forward with new projects. Producing a Christian superhero movie is a huge undertaking for a small independent director and you can help by prayerfully considering being a part of getting this film wrapped up and into the local theaters. You can help in three ways:

1.Pray for the ongoing development of Christian film making right here in your backyard!

2. When it premieres in the Mitchell Theaters in October 2016, go out and see it!

3. You could make a donation on our web site that will help offset post production and marketing expenses!”