CONVICTED (short film)

After several months, our first short narrative film, CONVICTED, is completed.

Here is the path this film has taken (from concept to completion):

On the surface, CONVICTED is a bleak story about a Prisoner named ERNESTO awaiting his execution on death row. But it's really about the universal question that all of us have to contend with: What happens when we die?

We may choose to ignore the fact that we're going to die someday, especially when we're young, but it is an inevitable fact of life... a hard truth we acknowledge but rarely allow to shape how we think and behave on a daily basis. But it's going to happen. Trust me. Where we go after we die is the most important choice any of us will make.

In Ernesto's case... death is imminent. Friday, he's told, is when "it" will happen. What does he do to prepare? What would any of us do with only days remaining? Hours. Minutes. What would you do? Say "goodbye" to family and friends? Of course. Contemplate what happens after death? Undoubtedly. Ernesto does this, all while listening to the opposing perspectives of prisoners in cells on either side of him. Where can he find hope in such a dark place with the end in sight?

To learn more about the movie, visit the web-site: CONVICTED-MOVIE.COM

Screenings of the film will be on a per-request basis in 2025-2026. People need only send an email to Convicted@BeaconLightHope.com to request a viewing and, after answering a few questions, we will send an MP4 copy of the film or a link to watch it online.

We are praying that CONVICTED will be selected to screen at a select group of faith-based film festivals in 2026. At some point in 2026, we plan to post it to our YouTube channel for the general public.

From Luke 23: 40-43:

One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him. "Don't you fear God," he said, "since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our crimes deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong." Then he said to him, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."

Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."

This epic moment between Jesus and the Thief on the cross is faithfully dramatized in Franco Zefirelli's "Jesus of Nazareth" (1979).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-wapM4D3oI