![]() ![]() With the funding for the first season in place, shooting began in earnest and the first eight episodes were released in 2019. #The shepherd the chosen series#Much to his surprise VidAngel raised the $10 million through crowdfunding with over 19,000 investors responding after having watched this short film 'The Shepherd' which was now designated as the pilot for this new TV series that would be made available through the streaming services of VidAngel. Jenkins believed they would be lucky to raise $800. ![]() The first season of a planned eight seasons of the series called 'The Chosen', with eight planned episodes per season, alone needed about $10 million. The most any major film undertaking had ever raised up to that point through crowd funding was about $5.7 million dollars. They suggested, much to Jenkins dismay, to crowdfund the TV series. To add to the novelty, VidAngel proposed to do something never before achieved in order to finance the series. This was going to be something new and never before tried. While films and mini-series had often been produced about the life of Jesus Christ, no one had up until then created a TV series about the life of Jesus Christ. Filmed with a limited budget in the backyard behind a barn at a friends farm, this short film got into the hands of VidAngel productions who became excited about the potential of creating a whole TV series about the life of Jesus Christ and offered Jenkins the role of Director while their job would be to finance the series. That summer in 2017 Dallas Jenkins, who was on his Baptist church's video production team and had been involved in producing their annual video vignettes such the "The Two Thieves" produced in 2014 for the Church's Good Friday celebration, persuaded his church to produce this short video, "The Shepherd", about a Shepherd named Simon and his involvement in the story of the birth of Jesus, for the church's annual Christmas celebration. ![]() This moment is what Jenkins credits as the beginning of the most amazing project of his life - "The Chosen", of which this short film, "The Shepherd" is the beginning. He said that at that moment he decided to leave his future career, whatever it might be or not be, to God. He later recounts the moment of change came in his life when a FaceBook pastor friend of his messaged him with the following message: "It is not your job to feed the 5000, your job is just to bring the five loaves and 2 fishes," all of which hit a resonant chord with Jenkins. After having had dismal box-office results from directing a previous Hollywood faith-based 2015-2016 film production called "The Resurrection of Gavin Stone", Director Dallas Jenkins, was thinking that there might probably be no future career for him in film directing. ![]()
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