“In 1994, at age 40 Pastor Richard Gazowsky saw his first movie. Later that year he received a vision from God.”

So begins Audience of One, the stunning 2007 documentary story of a Pentacostal congregation’s decade-plus Quixotic cinematic odyssey conjuring tens of millions of dollars from churchgoers and international investors.

The church’s film, Gravity: Shadow of Joseph, is modestly pitched as “Star Wars meets The Ten Commandments” and the 65mm 60 frames-per-second epic takes its first-time filmmakers from San Francisco to Italy putting their homes, livelihoods, reputations, and the church’s future on the line in the name of Christian Science fiction.

Despite a successful and prize-winning festival run, Audience of One is wildly under-seen, currently un-rentable, and has never been available to stream. We’re honored to share it as the next installment in our Art Is Easy series.

"Art Is Easy" features true and invented tales of agony and ecstasy, underdogs, success, and failure in the production of art.