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Professional filmmakers, many in Nashville, Tennessee, are beginning to make big profits on faith-based low-budget feature films.\u00a0 The production values are high, and the Christian stories are appealing to large audiences, especially when the movies marketed through churches.\u00a0 Correspondent Dan Lothian says Hollywood is paying attention.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI get\u00a0stopped all the time because of the faith-based movies. People say please make more. They would come up to me and say we love this. We want more. Please tell Hollywood to make more like this,\u201d says actor Kevin Sorbo, who starred in the hit film \u201cGod\u2019s Not Dead.\u201d More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":30382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-culture-and-society","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-literature-and-the-arts"],"yoast_head":"\nFaith Films | May 6, 2016 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/05\/06\/faith-films\/30283\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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