Pastor Richard Gazowsky

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  Pastor Richard Gazowsky.
  
  Pastor Richard Gazowsky.
  
  Pastor Richard Gazowsky, senior pastor of Voice of Pentecost in San Francisco, California, USA.

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  That's the nutshell version of the vision that drives Pastor Richard Gazowsky, who over ten years guided his church through the shooting of many short films and two features. Although their productions were humble and notably lacking in distribution, Gazowsky knew his company was ready for the big time. In 2004 he began production on an ...

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  The 50th San Francisco International Film Festival presents Audience of One, a documentary about Richard Gazowsky, pastor and self-anointed film director. When a message from God instructs the pastor of San Francisco's Voice of Pentecost Church to make a movie, he does not start small.

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  At the ripe age of 40, San Francisco Pastor Richard Gazowsky saw his first movie ever: The Lion King. Maybe so overwhelmed and inspired by the circle of life, the pastor saw a vision of a million-dollar sci-fi biblical epic to redefine sci-fi biblical epics-and Hollywood. While such a genre may not really exist, Gazowsky believes that he will impress his one audience member, God, by creating a $50-million futuristic Star Wars version of the story of Joseph to be called Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph.
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  As his first full-length feature, documentary director Michael Jacobs probably had his own vision: Gazowsky's project would be a surefire failure, but a piece of comic brilliance to document.
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  Gazowsky, the director, is never once fazed by the fact that he had to sell his house and move in with his mother to pay for a film pushing him into extreme debt, crew members are constantly abandoning the set and their camera is falling apart. "God will make sure we have plenty of time to get everything done," Gazowsky says to re-instill faith in his crew. He later compares their rehabilitated camera to Jesus' resurrection.

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  But the film that stayed with me most was Michael Jacobs' alternately riotous and properly appalling Audience of One, which tags along with Richard Gazowsky, a San Francisco evangelical minister on a disastrous quest to realize his dream of making a religious action movie.
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  Gazowsky comes off as a huckster and a megalomaniac with a gift for rationalizing his dubious gambits as orders from on high.As it turned out, he's also a pretty good critic.Asked at a post-screening Q&A what it felt like to watch this empathic but damning film, he said, "It's like watching yourself go to the toilet."

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  Pentecostal minister Richard Gazowsky has suffered trials and tribulations as he tries to make a movie.Recently he went to meet a potential investor at the corner of Hollywood and Vine.Was it a scam?The pastor holds out hope.Pentecostal minister Richard Gazowsky has suffered trials and tribulations as he tries to make a movie.Recently he went to meet a potential investor at the corner of Hollywood and Vine.Was it a scam?

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  By Keith Uhlich In the press notes for his documentary Audience of One, director Michael Jacobs says of his subject, Pentecostal Pastor Richard Gazowsky, "[I] truly admire him for his creative vision, his spiritual mentoring and his ...
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  Ten years ago, Richard Gazowsky, pastor of the Voice of Pentecost Church in San Francisco, received a 'prophetic whisper' from God to make movies.Michael Jacobs' unique documentary shows Pastor Gazowsky and his congregation as they gear up to make "Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph," a $50 million Biblical sci-fi epic.
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  I didn't know at the time how little money they really had, because Richard pitches a big game, and he's so magnetic.
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  Slowly but surely the film became about Richard.At first, I though it was a film about filmmaking and faith but by the end it was a film about this one man and his vision.
  
  His mother makes fun of him a lot.She's his harshest critic.She's a really strong woman.She's an incredible character, and she became an incredible character device, and that provided a necessary element of reality in the film.
  
  What are the church members up to these days?They've been kicked off Treasure Island, and have returned all their belongings to the church.There is no quit in these people, neither in Richard nor in his staff.So they're regrouping, getting ready for the next project.The setbacks feed them.The church is healthy outlet for these people to organize their lives around.That's one mantra that you hear at church all the time: "I'm just gonna keep showin' up," and that worked for me sometimes, when Richard would encourage me just to show up.
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  And then I still don't really know who Richard is.After two years of observing him I'm farther than ever from knowing him.
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  Ten years ago, Richard Gazowsky, pastor of the Voice of Pentecost Church in San Francisco, received a 'prophetic whisper' from God to make movies.Michael Jacobs' unique documentary shows Pastor Gazowsky and his congregation as they gear up to make "Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph," a $50 million Biblical sci-fi epic.

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  By the time Pentecostal pastor Richard Gazowsky says, "It's either God, or I'm crazy," you're pretty sure it's the latter.

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  Every filmmaker has a vision but not quite like the divine one of Richard Gazowsky, a Pentecostal pastor from San Francisco.After a visit from God on a mountain top, the pastor embarks on the production of a multi-million dollar sc-fi epic Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph, 'It's Star Wars meets The Ten Commandments'.Gazowksy's faith defies belief as it survives losing all of his congregation's donations on a disastrous (but hilarious) shoot in an Italian village.In his riveting documentary filmmaker Mike Jacobs follows Gazowsky every very painful step of the way.

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  Richard Gazowsky, a pentecostal pastor, claims he's been mandated by God to film a sci-fi blockbuster called The Shadow of Joseph, with a projected budget of $50 million.

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