The Sidecar is a legendary Barcelona nightclub in the center of the city that has a long tradition of giving space for aspiring artists and musicians to strut their stuff. Their slot for July 4th read, Alas Studio presents… At show time, the Sidecar was packed with a hundred-and-some young people. Jonas and I welcomed them in Spanish and English and cued our first short film. Five shorts later, the directors having shared the inspiration behind their films, I explained our desire as Christians to know and glorify God through the arts. That night at Sidecar embodied all that we hoped to accomplish through the studio: to create together as a community of Christians and to share our work with believers and non-believers in a way that was natural and compelling. Indeed, our summer film project, “Peli2003”, was the culmination of our goals as a studio: to give wings to young Christian artists, to give voice to the ministry of AgapeCampus in Spain, and to give new eyes to see and ears to hear. (more…)