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For the documentary "Soulsailer - The Quest for Meaning"
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Golden Telly Award Winner in Cinematography

Truth and Imagination in Film. (Wahrheit und Imagination im Film)

Jesuit Theater in Germany (Jesuitentheater in Deutschland)

The Moment Is For Me: An Ignatian Guide to Prayer

Zwischen Illusion und Wirklichkeit: Wachowskis „Matrix“ als filmische Auseinandersetzung mit der digitalen Welt (German Edition)

“Cautela!* Strengthen Prevention - Promote Healing” is a differentiated learning program that aims to raise awareness of issues such as abuse and bullying and thus help to protect the dignity and integrity of young people. It uses the specific possibilities of films to reach children and adults on an emotional level. This is more successful than a purely text-based learning approach.

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Cautela! Prävention stärken - Heilung fördern (strengthen prevention - promote healing

Christof Wolf SJ—Founder, CEO and President of Loyola Productions Munich, Inc. and DOK TV & Media, Inc., two film production companies especially producing / specialists in (animated) documentaries, promotionals, and educational films. He is a graduate of the New York Film Academy. He has directed and produced a number of short documentaries, including his work about the American Zen master Bernie Glassman as well as the award winning feature length documentaries „In Spite of Darkness. A Spiritual Encounter with Auschwitz“ (Best Documentary, Redemptive Storyteller Award, Silver Telly Awards), “Ai-un: Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle – Bridge Builder between Zen and Christianity” (Telly Awards: Spirituality, History, Documentary and Biography), “Soulsailer – The Quest for Meaning” (Golden Telly Award in Cinematography, two Silver Telly Awards: Documentary and Culture), and “Ignatius – the God Seeker” (three Silver Telly Awards: Virtual Art Direction , Sound & Sound Design, and Character Design). He has become a specialist in animated documentaries, including scenes of the ZDF/ARTE production “Challenging Churchill”.
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Since 2001 he is lecturer at the Munich School of Philosophy “for Culture, Art and Religion”, since 2019 Lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University, since 2012 Chaplain for the “Association of Catholic Journalists Germany” (GKP), since 2015 Chaplain for the “Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs” Munich, and has been the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the online-portal “filmdienst” (2017-22). He leads film retreats around the world and is the founder and President of TIFF (The Iñigo Film Festival) for World Youth Day, a gathering of young people from around the world.

Association of Catholic Journalists Germany (GKP)

Association of Catholic Entepreneurs Munich (BKU)

Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office for Film and Broadcasting Germany

Professor in Residence of Film and Television Production

Target audience: God Seeker

Have you ever wondered what moves the Jesuits at their core? This innovative animated documentary about the founder of the Jesuits reveals his inner quest for God, and invites you to become a spiritual seeker yourself. 

Ignatius - the God Seeker
An animated documentary about the Spiritual Exercises
https://www.ignatius-godseeker.org

The film wins three Silver Telly Awards in the categories: Virtual Art Direction , Sound & Sound Design, and Character Design.
https://www.tellyawards.com

More Information about the Spiritual Exercises
https://www.spiritual-exercises.org

Much has been written about “The Power and Secret of the Jesuits.” But perhaps not everything is secret, because what constitutes the Jesuits above all is their common spiritual foundation, the Exercises of Saint Ignatius (1491-1556), who founded the Jesuit order.
Every Jesuit makes the so-called “Full Spiritual Exercises” twice in his life, at the beginning and end of his formation. He spends thirty days in silence and prayer, centered on his relation to God and Jesus. He ponders the decisive question: what is God’s will for me and my life? Am I called to be a Jesuit, a companion of Jesus? 

Silence is more than mere not-speaking: it opens a man to a new dimension in his life. Extended silence enables one to hear. Forty days before his public appearance, Jesus himself was led into stillness and solitude in the desert. His desert experience with the three temptations is certainly a key event in his life. All three temptations concern the first commandment: “I am the Lord your God. You shall not have other gods beside me! You shall not make for yourself an idol to worship.” For Jesus God alone counts, not the apotheosis of earthly power and whatever accompanies it. A human who can turn stone into bread can also rule the world with “bread and circuses.” Jesus had the ability to do so, but he refused to use it, even for his own hunger. True bread, true security, comes from God alone. Knowing this, Jesus proclaims: “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the good news.” People who heed this call and reorient themselves accordingly feel an inner freedom, liberated from every dependence and compulsion. 

In the Spiritual Exercises, we share this basic experience of Jesus in the desert. The gift of inner freedom expresses itself as gratitude, kindness, patience, perseverance, generosity, and affability. That inner freedom is the foundation for seeking and finding God in all things. It enables us to work “Ad majorem Dei gloriam” (“For the greater glory of God”) with “indifference,” which means not that everything is of no interest to me, but that everything is of equal interest for me. I meet everything with the same openness. If I lose my soul to something other than God, in the end I lose my inner freedom.

The question of a radical following of Jesus is central for a novice who thinks about entering the Jesuit order. Nevertheless, the Exercises are not only for Jesuits, but are also offered to anyone seeking religious experience. In general, they help us reorient our lives to God. They are no abstract theory, but are grounded in Ignatius’s life experience. In 1521, he was wounded by a cannonball while serving as a soldier in a battle in Pamplona. During his convalescence, he read about the life of Jesus and the lives of saints. After his recovery, he began to lead a strict ascetical life, wanting to imitate Saint Francis and Saint Dominic. He then had an experience that marked and changed his entire life. He now realized that we can find God in all things. His experiences led to an “instruction” for prayer, the “Spiritual Exercises.” They assume that God is immediately accessible to his creatures — not only to a saint, but to everyone. Also new was the type and method of religious experience that they promote: Ignatius calls it “praying with all our senses.” He thus developed further the method of meditative prayer known since the Desert Fathers as the “Lectio Divina.” This method consisted of four steps: lectio (reading), meditatio (meditation), oratio (prayer), and contemplatio (contemplation). After an attentive reading of a Bible passage, we select a verse that especially speaks to us and meditate on it, by reflecting on it repeatedly. For Ignatius, the reflective meditation makes use of all the senses in prayer: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. Reflecting on the word of God leads to the prayer, and in the stillness of the contemplation the person praying experiences communion with God.

Order the Book: “The Moment Is For Me“ by Christof Wolf, S.J.
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Ignatius - the God Seeker - Award Winning Movie

Soulsailer
The Quest for Meaning

Why do some people manage to implement life plans that are difficult to realize, but others do not? What does it take to be successful and happy in life? Are talent, external life circumstances and luck decisive here, or are there other factors that are even more important? We accompany Tamara Dietl (author, coach), Moritz Stahl (saxophonist) and Katharina Klein (actress, clown).

The film wins a Golden Telly Award in the category: Cinematography, a Silver Telly in the category: Documentary and a Silver Telly in the category: Cultural Film.
https://www.tellyawards.com

https://www.seelensegler-film.de/
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Soulsailer -  The Quest for Meaning - Award Winning Documentary

Linda (yoga teacher) and her friend Andy (investment banker) are looking forward to their holidays together. But Linda's grandmother dies unexpectedly. Linda now wants to fulfill her grandmother's last will and testament. Their holidays are far away... The animated film "Stardust and Soulbird" is a philosophical road movie. The film deals with questions such as: How can we experience God in the world? Does it make sense to want to explain everything scientifically? Is the death of a loved one a proof against the existence of God? The animated film was awarded a bronze Telly Award in 2020 as particularly inspiring.

https://www.sternenstaub-seelenvogel.de
http://www.analytic-theology.org


Tablet-App: God Seeker
Google-Play-Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=god.seeker

Apple-Store
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/god-seeker/id1505969788?l=en

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