I'm Warren Smith and today you'll be listening in on two conversations I had recently with

men who are shaking up the Christian entertainment market.

First up is Neal Harmon, the co-founder of Vid Angel and Angel Studios.

Later in the program we'll hear from Chris Wall, who is the showrunner for one of the

Angel Studios most anticipated projects, the animated adaptation of Andrew Peterson's

Wing Feather Saga.

We are a fantasy series, told by Christians and I think it's really been important so

as we found our way forward over the last six years it's been very difficult and frankly

lonely because we see a lot of this in the Christian marketplace a certain way that

that can get done that we're not a part of and we don't frankly want to be and then

in the second marketplace the same thing.

That was Chris Wall who we will hear from later in the program but we begin today with

Neal Harmon.

Neal Harmon was raised in a Mormon family in a town in Idaho that he says is straight

out of the movie Napoleon Donemite.

He grew up on a farm learning the value of hard work though initially at least he didn't

see much value in school.

His relationship with books took off though when his mother gave him a copy of CS Lewis's

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

From that moment on storytelling has been a big part of his life.

The company he founded Vid Angel started out by providing edited versions of mainstream

movies, edited to take out the sex, violence and profanity.

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