Filmmaker's Goal: A `Solution' For Racism - from Tampa... -
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Published on: 2/8/2004
Last Visited: 2/10/2004
But Cris Krusen is no ordinary man.The 51- year-old Tampa native spent 10 years and about $1 million in donations and loans to finance a long-held dream.
You can be part of that dream when "Final Solution," an award- winning movie written and directed by Krusen, opens Friday at Channelside Cinemas in downtown Tampa.
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Krusen, a world traveler fluent in Spanish, makes his home in Portsmouth, Va. He's a senior producer with CBN WorldReach, the international production division of the Christian Broadcasting Network.He also is president of Messenger Films, a nonprofit company he launched in 1988 to produce Christian films for evangelism.
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Krusen became a Christian in 1991, when he was living in New York and pursuing a career in filmmaking.Before his conversion, he says his life was centered on achieving personal glory.Now he focuses on reaching people through films that honor God.
Krusen is in the development stages of two films: "The Search," set in Mexico, where he once lived, and "The Dream House," set in North Carolina and Georgia.
"I'm always thinking of the next story to write," he says.