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“I can only Imagine” movie interview with CO executive producer Joshua Walsh


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Welcome to a special end of week episode of the Paint and Paper podcast (007) where we get to talk to Joshua Walsh!
He is the Co-Executive Producer of the new Erwin brothers Movie - "I Can Only Imagine"


If you are not familiar with Josh or the Erwin Brothers, maybe one of these movies will ring a bell:

October Baby
Mom's Night Out
WoodLawn

What does a movie have to do with painting or decorating your home? It’s because of our tagline. Our tagline is ‘we help you love the house you live in’. It was actually my Incredible Wife’s idea while we were on the "Love Like you mean it cruise", with family life radio that the idea took place. How to paint is nice, wallpapering is great, refinishing cabinets is awesome, it supports our way of life and our way of living, and what we do. But you should be going to the next-steps. If we’re really gonna help people love the house they live in, then we need to-be talking about how they live in their house and some of the things–what you do, what you don’t do, just ways to make the house better.

This is a family movie, one that is great for all family members. Josh shared "I think it actually kind of ties in with our home and our living."
Past Films
October Baby. October Baby was the story about this woman named Gianna Jessen. It was the story of this girl that was an abortion survivor. That story really follows this girl named Hannah through her life and finding out that the health issues that she experienced throughout her entire life are tied back to the fact that she was not only adopted which she finds out later in life but also saved from an abortion. Her kind of dealing with that and going on a road trip on a journey to find her birth mother.

The Erwin brothers went on to produce a studio film with Sony named Moms' Night Out, it was kind of our big movie. We went from being Indie film directors to working with a studio and making a film. Moms' Night Out starred Trace Adkins who’s also in I Can Only Imagine which comes out March 15, 2018. The movie had Trace Adkins, Sean Astin from Lord of the Rings, Patricia Heaton from Everyone Loves Raymond, and then Sarah Drew from Grey’s Anatomy.

Jon called it a Hallmark card to his wife. It was just this story about a family and these women, these moms, it was kind of this adventure-comedy, family comedy about them really just trying to get a night out and things going wrong. It’s almost like one of those old road trip comedies where things keep going wrong. But at the end of it, wraps up with a very sweet message about motherhood and the importance of moms in all the roles, stay-at-home moms, and moms have to work. It’s a beautiful celebration of moms. It packs a really heavy message with some laughs.

Then Woodlawn which we feel is a more important film which was a true story about a football player named Tony Nathan in Birmingham, Alabama where we’re based out of. It’s a story we grew up hearing. It focused on this player who was really the first African-American superstar to come out of Alabama, sports athlete from this tiny little school named Woodlawn.
Themes
The story really deals with integration, the tensions of integration, and that intersecting with the Jesus movement of the 70s. What happens to this team in Birmingham, Alabama in the Woodlawn campus that really started something that changed a lot of the way that Alabama treated African-American people. The rise of this character that then many others would follow after him. It really deals with the Jesus movement, racial tension, and football. It was based off a story they heard growing up through their whole life. The dad would always talk about how he came into this campus, he shared the gospel to this team that was divided, whites and blacks not talking to each other, not dealing well with each other, came together,
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