GOD TV Globally Broadcasts 13th Annual Christian Movie Awards

GOD TV, will be broadcasting part of the 13th Annual MOVIEGUIDE® Faith & Values Awards Gala this weekend, allowing millions of people across the world to see the event held earlier in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

The show will last for 90 minutes. It will be shown at various times on Saturday 16th July and Sunday 17th July in more than 200 nations and territories around the world, to a potential audience of more than three billion people, and an actual reach of 275 million people.

The theme of the MOVIEGUIDE® Awards is "The Passion and the Power". The Awards Gala, founded by Ted Baehr and the Christian Film & Television Commission™, features the US$50,000 John Templeton Foundation Epiphany Prizes for Inspiring Movies and TV.

The Epiphany Prizes are given to the most spiritually uplifting movie and television programme of the year that resulted in a great increase in man’s love or understanding of God.

The Awards Gala will also feature awards for the Ten Best Family Films, the Ten Best Films for Mature Audiences, and the Grace Awards for the Most Inspirational Acting in Movies and TV in 2004.

A number of celebrities will appear on the Awards Gala, including Jim Caviezel of "The Passion of the Christ", Shirley Jones of "The Partridge Family", Patrick Warburton of TV’s "Seinfeld", Daryl Sabara of "Spy Kids", Judge Reinhold of "Beverly Hills Cop" and "The Santa Clause", Julianne Morris of "50 First Dates" and TV’s "The Days of Our Lives" and "The Young and the Restless", and Brian Littrell of The Backstreet Boys.

Vying for the movie Epiphany are "The Passion of Christ", "Ladder 49", "I am David", "The Reckoning" and "America’s Heart and Soul".

Jim Caviezel of "The Passion of Christ", Don Cheadle of "Hotel Rwanda", Joaquin Phoenix of "Ladder 49", Kelsey Grammer of "A Christmas Carol", Jamie Foxx of "Redemption", and Billy Ray Cyrus of "Doc" are vying for the two Grace Awards.

"Spiderman-2", "Princess Diaries 2", "The Passion of the Christ", "The Incredibles", "Shrek 2", "Miracle", "The Polar Express", "The Terminal", "Ladder 49", and "Collateral" are among those vying for other top awards.

The annual awards started in 1991 when Dr Ted Baehr, founded the Christian Film & Television Commission™ to redeem the values of the entertainment industry, according to biblical principles. It has successfully encouraged Hollywood to produce more quality media with a solid biblical foundation.

Since then, the amount of movies with morally positive content has increased 162 percent and the amount of movies with uplifting spiritual, redemptive, and/or Christian content has increased 350 percent, according to GOD TV.

Furthermore, a recent MOVIEGUIDE® study concludes that movies with strong moral content earn much more money on average at the box office than movies with excessive sexual morality, nudity, violence, vulgarity and other anti-Christian content.

For UK/Europe GOD TV viewers, they can watch this prestigious awards banquet on the GOD Channel (SKY 671) on Saturday 16th July at 20:30 and 17th Sunday at 17:00 London time.