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Two Christians won best film awards at the Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s Faith Shorts film competition recently. .jpg "tony blair sylvia (3).jpg") The awards were set up to encourage young people from different religions to express their faith through film. Fifteen-year-old Dolly Deeb, from Amman in Jordan, won in the under-18 category for her film Forgiveness, which focuses on her struggle to come to terms with the terrorist attacks that hit Jordan in 2005. “The message of my film is for young people to plan love instead of hate and life instead of destruction,” she said. “Violence leads to more violence and death to more death. My faith inspires me to forgive and forget. “ One of the judges, Anil Kapoor, star of Slumdog Millionaire and TV series 24, said of Dolly Deeb that she “clearly communicates that her faith teaches her the importance of forgiveness and it is this practice that has truly freed her”. Esteban Pedraza (pictured left), a 20-year-old Christian from Nashville, Tennessee, won for his film People I know. This is a deeply personal story featuring his mother (pictured second right) and best friend, who have overcome the struggles of single motherhood and drug addiction through their faith. |
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