Biola Film Screening: SHOW ME DEMOCRACY

Dan Parris wants to change the world. His documentaries: When the Saints, Show Me Democracy and the award-winning film What Matters?, all tackle controversial subjects on the most practical levels. Not interested in platitudes, he founded his production company Speak Up Productions in 2008 to dig deep into those problems that drive us apart to find the humanity that unites us. Dan is a 2008 graduate of Biola Cinema and Media Arts. In 2012 he received Biola's Young Alumnus award. Most recently, Dan co-founded the non-profit, Continuity, whose mission is to expand diversity in media production.

Watch Dan's TEDx Talk on How to Make a Difference

Delonte is committed to using his passion for art, theology, and social change to bring life and flourishing both to cities and to rural areas. This passion fuels his work with the Downtown Los Angeles Clergy Council where he serves as the director of the Trust Talks, a new approach to trust building and community transformation between the LAPD, housing and public health service providers, activists, loft dwellers, business owners, the un-housed and other key stakeholders in Downtown Los Angeles. It has also led him to provide leadership in community development and social change work in the Appalachian hills of West Virginia and in rural and urban Malawi and South Africa. Born and raised in Washington D.C., he was educated in District of Columbia public schools, and attended Swarthmore College and Fuller Theological Seminary. Groomed in black Baptist and Pentecostal traditions, he currently serves as a pastor for children and youth at New City Church of Los Angeles, and as a teacher at a Quaker School in Pasadena. A newlywed, he married his life partner and best friend Claire this Fall.