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COMING-OF-AGE MUSIC-COMEDY FILM “ELECTRIC JESUS”

WINS THREE AWARDS AT ORLANDO FILM FESTIVAL

INCLUDING “BEST PICTURE”

Original Score by Daniel Smith (Danielson Famile) and Original Songs by Smith and

Director Chris White – Soundtrack Available on Joyful Noise Recordings in 2021

Listen To Chris White and Daniel Smith on The Blacksheep Podcast on 11/10

VIDEO FOR “COMMANDO FOR CHRIST” HERE

VIDEO FOR “GIRL (I LOVE JESUS TOO”) HERE

VIDEO FOR “BARABBAS” HERE

GREENVILLE, SC – “Electric Jesus” - the coming-of-age music-comedy that follows the ill-fated journey of a never-famous 80’s Christian hair metal band (316) who spends the summer of 1986 playing rock music meant to ‘make Jesus famous’ – has won “Best Picture,” “Best Director” (Chris White) and “Best Supporting Performance” (Brian Baumgartner) at the Orlando Film Festival. The film is currently screening at film festivals across the United States.

Written and directed by Chris White, the film features Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club), Brian Baumgartner (The Office), new/emerging stars Wyatt Lenhart (singer/guitarist), Will Oliver (lead guitarist), Gunner Willis (bassist) and Caleb Hoffmann (drummer) as 316, Andrew Eakle (sound man) and Shannon Hutchinson (preacher’s daughter).

With an original score and music by Daniel Smith (Danielson Famile), fictitious band 316 plays an otherworldly mash-up of 80’s hair metal and vacation Bible school that wears its teenage protagonists’ hearts on its sleeve while rocking their socks off. The soundtrack will be released on Joyful Noise Recordings in early 2021.

“Electric Jesus doesn’t want to save you. But it does want to prove that Christian rock can have a soul.” – Document Journal

“Take a screenwriter who is also a music fan and bring him together with a songwriter who’s a movie fan and you have the main ingredients necessary to create the soundtrack for Electric Jesus…” – American Songwriter

“White understands that the best way to bring religious and non-religious people on the same plane is through music, and he gives Daniel Smith free rein to create some head-banging numbers. Since all of the song sequences are shot, edited, acted, and sung to perfection, you cannot help but enjoy it. That’s religious propaganda done well and despite being an atheist, I respect that.” – Mashable

"One of the best 'band' movies I’ve ever seen—one, because the film is a bit of a love letter to Stryper and the whole 80’s Christian rock scene, but also because it shows Christian characters in a way that doesn’t hate on them OR turn them into fanatical, Jesus superheroes. It’s just real, honest, true." – Michael Sweet (of Stryper)