Oversold Distribution

Oversold was and still is a beast. I am officially getting tired of it. lol. I have spent the better part of the last 3 years on this project. What started as an idea with my buddy Dave Cowan turned into a feature film script which morphed into a short film script which turned into a short film starring a former porn-star which turned into a 4 week Bible Study featuring a short film that stars a former porn-star which turned into the 1st in what we hope to be a long running series titled “The Living Parallels”.

This wasn’t something we came up with immediately. This was derived after the last year and a half of being attacked by what felt like every Christian in this country. While we were stoked to have cast former porn-star now believer Crissy Moran in our spiritually based film, most other believers were not too excited about it. It was simply amazing to watch how fast fellow Christians turned on us and each other and started condemning. 99% of the time these people knew nothing about the project much less read the script. These were condemnations based solely on who I cast to play the lead. The irony of it all, is that this is what the story is about. People judging others by who they were or used to be. Making a decision on the quality of a person, based on their past. This is scary! This wrong! and This is HATE! Not the love Christ asked us to show.

The most common question we got from people was “how much nudity is in the film”!!!! Seriously! This is from people that know me. While my admittedly human desires love a nude body, there is no way I would put a nude scene in this Christ centered film, or any film for that matter. I mean come on, this question after I literally just told you it was a “church film”. After realizing this was becoming an issue, we really started skating around the issue – trying to avoid the “elephant in the room” if you will.

I recently had a conversation with the guy who did the Modern Day Parable Series. He told us that we needed to stop avoiding it… and to embrace the elephant. Then Dave came to me with this new idea for the series. We will no longer talk about Oversold as a Christian film with a former porn-star in it. It is a modern day Bible story, that along side the living testimony of a porn-star transformed by God’s Grace, Oversold becomes an insanely powerful tool to reach out and share God’s Grace. Love the unlovable.

I am excited to announce that we have found 2 distributors that are just busting at the seams excited to help us get Oversold out to the public. As of July 1, we will have worldwide distribution. Depending on which stores take the film and Bible Study (and book) we should be in most CBA retailers around the states, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and more. We also have broadcast licenses coming in from around the world. Networks wanting to show our film! And possibly even Netfilx. This is so freaking rad.

While I say that I am tired of Oversold… I really think it is more that I am just tired. While we close this chapter of “self distribution” and enter into a traditional distribution channel, I hope that this next chapter of the project takes us to new levels, and I pray that God will provide us a way to continue this series! Next up is an almost modern take on Jonah and the Whale, titled “Wailin’ Jones” lol. It is going to be incredible.

Thank you to everyone that helped out and supported the film. There is NO way we could have pulled off this project without you. And Thanks to Bank of America for allowing me to put it on my credit card. lol.

For those of you who haven’t seen the film or know nothing about it… you can check out: http://www.oversoldthemovie.com

rock it. paul