BOLIFA

This report about the Bread Of Life International Film Association (BOLIFA) contains a brief overview of the activities that were done during the past year, the activities that are planned for the current year, and the financial situation of the group.

A successful beginning

BOLIFA is a newly-founded group of Christian filmmakers and born-again film enthusiasts from every continent who joined forces to consolidate an international film society to facilitate the promotion of faith-based movies, the dissemination of Christ-centered cinemas and the global sharing of films produced to spread the Gospel message of hope around the world.

The past year, with the sponsorship of the International Christian Visual Media (ICVM) and countless of others ministries and pious supporters, the club network was able to reach souls living in 64 countries, where 1,844 different Christian films were screened on 3,980 different homes, schools and Churches in Europe, America, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Australasia. The movies in question included:

• ·       1,237 Studio films
• ·       1,269 Independent films
• ·       1,189 biographical movies
• ·       1,149 documentaries

For a small fee, these movies were visualized online and were made available electronically in the number of countries mentioned above.

Plans for the future

This year, BOLIFA’s plan is to play an active role at a number of different conferences and intercontinental meetings, particularly at the International Christian Film Festival (ICFF), the Festival of Good News at Czech Republic and the Chennai Christian Short Film Festival in India.

Regardless of the world’s disapproval, BOLIFA’s intention for the future is to still be preachy and reach more than 80 countries, double the number of films available, and offer movies captioned for at least another 30 languages.

Get involved

BOLIFA has been welcomed warmly by hundreds of ministries and thousands of brethren. The idea is also to offer right-minded films at a very low cost, so as to reach the greatest number of people.

However, the world-wide distribution of films becomes a challenging task when it comes to governmental approvals, legal treatments, copyright agreements, royalties, permissions, limitations, home deliveries and shipping costs in general. Unavoidably, all this earthly task means financial investment which might meet up the expectations. Only the previous year, $869,070 dollars were invested, and $879,596 dollars were received.

It is clear that the sustaining of BOLIFA would be unmanageable without the donations and offerings of Christian supporters and sponsors, whom we invite to get involved. There is also an open invitation to translators who would like to do volunteering work and to new promoters to help take BOLIFA’s project to more cities around the world.

For more information, please visit the official website www.bolifa.com