Ten years ago, a pastor from the Voice of Pentecost Church in San Francisco received a prophetic whisper - a directive from God to make movies for the Lord. Using donations from his congregation, he slowly transformed his church into a fully functioning movie studio, and the production company Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks was born. After experimenting on several small projects, Pastor Richard Gazowsky announced he and his WYSIWYG crew were going to make a film entitled, "Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph", a $50 million biblical science fiction movie that would redefine the Hollywood epic.
AUDIENCE OF ONE is a documentary that chronicles the making of "Gravity". This verite-style film goes inside a Pentecostal church, where the charismatic Gazowsky leads his loyal cast and crew on an incredible journey that tests the limits of faith. From pre-production at their church, to shooting principal photography in Italy, to leasing an enormous studio on an island in the San Francisco Bay, AUDIENCE OF ONE keeps pace with an embattled church production looking to God in order to keep their dream alive. Full of humor and pathos, what transpires is a story of obsession, faith and delusion.
"What makes Audience of One so exceptional is how it can be interpreted in so many different ways. It is a haunting commentary on religious delusion, it is a piercing metaphor for the Bush/Cheney administrations stubbornness, it is a hilarious satire of filmmaking, yet perhaps most importantly, and strangely, it is a testament to faith and determination in the face of the most insurmountable odds." --Michael Tully, Hammer To Nail
"Manages, as the best docs will, to tell a resonant, character-driven story that makes us think, all the while laughing and cringing." - Anne Lewis, The Austin Chronicle
"A comical and complex example of the conflict of religious devotion." -Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe
"Fascinating documentary that could catch on theatrically." -Ronnie Scheib, Variety
