Values Voter Summit: Family Friendly Media

The afternoon plenary session of the FRC Washington Briefing was called Lights, Camera, Values in Action.

It included speeches from Dr. Ted Baehr, president of MovieGuide, Brad Moore, president of Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, John Shepherd, president of Mpower Pictures, Academy Award-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, and Ken Wales, the producer of Amazing Grace.

While a great deal of the movies coming out of Hollywood today are pure social rot, this session brought good news of family-friendly, wholesome productions that are coming out.

A coming sequel to "Chariots of Fire" was also announced at the session. Chariots of Fire was the award-winning 1981 movie about British runner who was a Christian running for God, and his religious convictions led him to refuse to run in a 100-meter heat in the Olympics.

Iranian-born actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, who has starred in the Fox television series "24," spoke about her new film "The Stoning of Soraya M." The movie is from a book by the same name by French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam about the stoning in Iran of a young woman and mother when she was framed for infidelity.

The film is said to contain some difficult and disturbing parts but these were included not to be gratuitous, but to convey a powerful message.