Here are quotes from recent viewers:
What I like about Brethren is what I like about its filmmaker Wes Thomsen, a unique voice in the emerging film community who tells the truth as he has witnessed it. He is not afraid to risk or reveal himself in the process, and what results from that kind of willingness is often the best, most moving storytelling. I am eager to see what he does next, if this is his freshman offering as director, producer, editor, cameraman, and narrator. I expect that he has the capacity for substantive impact on faith in our culture.
Lauralee Farrer
Editor of Publications
Fuller Theological Seminary
The Brethren movie is a heart operation only God can perform. It is an honest look into what we all ask and are searching for. This movie will pierce the hearts of men and challenge them in a whole new way. Bikers are forever going to the owner's manual - studying it until they understand. This movie will lead them to read the owners manual on faith: the Bible. I come from the Motorcycle Club world and am also a veteran. We have a saying, we don't leave anyone behind. This movie clearly emphasizes that truth. It challenges every one that views it to search their own heart to see what road they are riding or walking on.
George (Ponch) Iniguez
President, Walls of Jericho Minisry
Brethren is a film that rips away the candy coated church rhetoric and gives the viewer a look at faith from the core. And, in this film, it's hard core. The blend of flashy motorcycles, honest dialogue and intelligent issues makes this piece stand on it's own. Even if you don't attend church or are someone having a crisis of faith, the film still holds your interest.
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People commented BRETHREN captured their feelings of frustration with many of the pat answers coming from church today that don't really address the reality of how the members are feeling or how their faith seems to be failing them.
Wes Thomsen's honest and moving docu-drama shoots straight from the hip, with unlikely heroes and modern day struggle against good and evil. Holds the interest of people of all ages.
Jane Greenwood
I'm a mom, who is fairly conservative in what movies I let my kids see. We watched Brethren together as a family because I found it to be a wonderful, fresh view of what God is doing in other places. This movie is honest, open and not afraid to talk about hard things, which sometimes the average American church hides from. I've only been on a bike once in my life, but the movie kept my interest because of how Wes wove details of real life into the biking world, even bike repair. And the whole thing is about God being real, not just "church" stuff.
Debbi Jo Dieter
Mother, Wife and Teacher
Wes, really great work. The honesty is something you and all of us should be proud of. It takes a real man to stand up for what's right in a world that's so wrong. God is one bad dude and not to be taken lightly. He knows when and where we will fall next
it sure is nice to know he will be there to catch us. Thanks!
Mike Powers
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