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AWARD WINNING INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDANT FILMS STUDIO

MESSENGER FILMS

Films of Beauty. Stories of Hope.

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Messenger Films presents

Let Me Have My Son

Drama - 2023

After learning that his son Benny is ready for discharge, Ben Whitmore Sr. travels to the state mental hospital to bring him home only to discover he's nowhere to be found. As unanswered questions mount and hope gives way to fear, a desperate search unfolds in Let Me Have My Son.

Messenger Films presents

Daniel's Garden

Documentary - 2025

Daniel's Garden — the sequel to Let Me Have My Son — traces the harrowing, ultimately redemptive story of Daniel Krusen's years of struggle with severe mental illness. The story is told largely through the eyes of Daniel's father, Cristóbal Krusen, and serves as a hope-filled sequel to the award-winning feature film, Let Me Have My Son.

Messenger Films presents

Sabina K.

Drama - 2015

Sabina, a divorced mother of two small children, falls in love with an old friend from the Bosnian war. The two plan to marry, but things go terribly wrong.

Messenger Films presents

Final Solution

Action, Drama - 2002

The indoctrination of Gerrit Wolfaardt is complete: his family traditions, history, culture- even his church-have taught him that black South Africans are a cancer in the land. Under the eye of prominent members of the government and military, Gerrit develops a diabolical plan to rid South Africa of its "black danger."

Messenger Films presents

Undaunted: The Early Life of Josh McDowell

Drama, Biography - 2011

Undaunted chronicles Josh McDowell's transformation from a childhood scarred by abuse and violence to a life of hope and purpose.

Our purpose

Messenger Films utilizes the universal language of cinema to create films of beauty and hope while mentoring emerging filmmakers who share our passion for inspirational storytelling.

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Our Films

Five titles. Thirty-five years.

LET ME HAVE MY SON poster

LET ME HAVE MY SON

2023 / DRAMA

DANIEL'S GARDEN poster

DANIEL'S GARDEN

2025 / DOCUMENTARY

SABINA K. poster

SABINA K.

2015 / DRAMA

UNDAUNTED: THE EARLY LIFE OF JOSH MCDOWELL poster

UNDAUNTED: THE EARLY LIFE OF JOSH MCDOWELL

2011 / DRAMA

FINAL SOLUTION poster

FINAL SOLUTION

2002 / ACTION

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Let Me Have My Son

An award-winning drama, selected in more than twenty festivals worldwide.

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“I thought drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”


Frank Capra

“When I looked at life through the camera, I felt I could finally see.”


Katherine Howe

“You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.”


Federico Fellini

“A movie is a little like a question, and when you make it, that’s when you get the answer.”


Francis Ford Coppola

“Good directors don’t answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.”


Alejandro González Iñárritu

“I have the joy of storytelling in me. I would invent anything if necessary to help you rise above your existence into the realm of something sublime, something horrifying, something of great beauty.”


Werner Herzog

“How else but through a broken heart / May Lord Christ enter in?”


Oscar Wilde

“The negative is the score; the print is the performance.”


Ansel Adams

“The only thing an actor has to offer a director and finally an audience is his instinct. That's all.”


Spencer Tracy

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the songs of a bird?”


Pablo Picasso

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