261. The Story of Possum Trot | Joshua Weigel, Bishop and Donna Martin

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🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Jordan and Tammy Peterson sit down with the screenwriter and director behind “Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot,” Joshua Weigel and the real life inspirations for the film, Bishop and Donna Martin. They discuss the presumption of understanding, parsing out falsehood from a message from God, how compassion spreads through giving, the miracle of adoption, and how the film came to be through hardship and grace. Joshua Weigel is an award-winning filmmaker with a unique ability to create deeply moving stories that transform and inspire action. Josh began working closely with his wife, Rebekah, writing and producing award winning short films which he directed, culminating with what has become one of the most beloved short films of all-time, The Butterfly Circus, a viral phenomenon receiving over 100 million views, and garnering over 35 film festival awards, including the Clint Eastwood Filmmaker Award presented to Joshua by Clint Eastwood at the Carmel Film Festival. Bishop and Donna Martin run the church of Possum Trot in East Texas, where they along with the families of the community have taken in seventy-seven children through adoption. Their story is one of struggle and triumph, compassion and resolve. It was brought to film and to the world through Angel Studios and the Daily Wire. - Links - Buy Tickets to “Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot” https://www.angel.com/tickets/sound-of-hope-the-story-of-possum-trot?utm_source=google-ads&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwkJm0BhBxEiwAwT1AXNLKBwIwZgec8P6mId1nHLkQiJLyUWRUSU6RfngcU_rdJtWuStXtgxoCTpAQAvD_BwE “Sound of Hope” website https://www.angel.com/movies/sound-of-hope-the-story-of-possum-trot Press and Cast information https://www.angel.com/press/sound-of-hope-the-story-of-possum-trot

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Hello everybody I'm here today talking to Bishop Martin, his wife Donna Martin, my wife Tammy Peterson, and Joshua Weigel, who's the director,
0:25.9	producer and writer with his wife Rebecca of the movie The Sound of Hope, The Story of Possumtrot. This is a story about a small community,
0:35.2	possum trot, that decided to take matters into their own hands in a responsible way
0:41.0	and 22 families in the community adopted 76 children pulling them out of the foster care system and they decided to take the children who no one wanted that's older children in the foster care system.
0:53.8	And the movie explores that topic, that difficult topic.
0:58.8	It's a hell of a thing to take it onto yourself
1:02.1	to pull someone you don't know who's being hurt into your life to try to intercede in a positive manner.
1:10.0	Joshua pointed out, for example, in the conversation that there's about 400,000 children in the
1:15.2	foster care system in the US and if every church did what the church community and possum
1:20.8	truck did, that there'd be no children at all in the foster care system and
1:24.9	God only knows what positive results might emerge socially in consequence of that.
1:30.9	And so this is an investigation into the compelling story of the families of
1:36.2	possum trot as well as in this discussion an analysis of the motives that the
1:42.0	people in the community had for undertaking this venture and a discussion of the potential consequences on the psychological and social stage of adopting responsibility to take care of the least among these, so to speak.
1:59.9	So welcome to the conversation.
2:04.3	All right, Joshua, let's start with you.
2:07.3	Why don't you tell us, well two things,
2:09.4	tell us the story of writing, first writing, and then producing, directing the Sound of Hope.
2:16.4	And also maybe fill us in on the details of your association with Angel Studios.
2:23.0	Good. Well, I'm glad to be here.
2:24.6	Thank you guys so much.
2:25.2	Yeah, thanks for coming, all of you.
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