''As a Christian, your job is to say, 'Hey! these people are evil, but you have to learn about them','' says Katherine Todd, a junior at Worthington Christian high school, as she discusses a Christian's role in the film industry.
Todd started at WC in preschool. She comes from a Christian family and mom and dad are still married. Her mom's name is Anne, and dad's name is Kevin. She has a 15-year-old sister named, Julia. They have lived life, learning most things together. Todd feels like her sister is the most popular one at school, but people still know her. When Todd came to WCHS as a freshman, she was interested in joining film club and the president had just graduated, so she automatically became the president of the film club. When she gets to college she intends to pursue a film degree. Todd knows about the risk she is taking even as a Christian in the film industry. So, she is very hesitant about do certain things in the industry, but Todd feels as a Christian your job is to say these things are evil, but you have to learn about them.
Todd loves film club and probably wants a major in film or a minor and wants to study in writing and editing. She sees herself in the future following this dream of telling stories, but she needs the education and experience and she wants to get these stories to a group of people.
Her mom has done experience like this for the military and when the military people don’t know how to talk to the public, she would talk to them as their way of communication. Her dad influenced her early on as a big history buff and she developed a passion for stories and real events, and how that impacts others. Todd feels like there's this need "for good prevailing and she feels like God has set her up with a group of people with these morals and she thinks Christians should set themselves with those morals."
Ever since she was a child, she enjoyed stories and the journey of the character. The idea of telling how someone grows from one point to another so with AP art and journalism telling their story and sharing with people. Storytelling is a way of communication. The idea of telling through showing not just telling a scene but a visual way too. Writing the story taking the visual and making this tale is amazing to her. When you tell a story, you are relying on someone trusting them to tell your story.
Todd believes that when non-Christians see a Christian movie, they may tend to think you're pushing this idea about God onto them. Christian movies usually don’t have a big budget and have people that don’t know what they're doing. Anyone who doesn’t want to know God would not typically go to a movie to hear about [God] to say, 'it changed my life.' She feels like a good Christian movie should make you feel hooked on something that matters to you in life. She feels compelled that this is something that she has to do for the film industry, ''The idea [that] there is something more in life."
-Josiah Gray
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