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Mpower Pictures is the production company of David Segel, Stephen McEveety, John Shepherd (actor), and Todd Matthew Burns.
Mpower Pictures was launched with Bella (2006), winner of the Toronto Film Festival People's Choice Award, produced in association with Metanoia Films.
Since then, Mpower Pictures has produced a number of award-winning features for theatrical distribution including An American Carol, The Stoning of Soraya M. and Snowmen.
Filmography of Mpower Pictures (4 films)
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Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
, 2h9Directed by Marc Forster
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Biography, Action, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about religion
Actors Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Kathy Baker, Madeline Carroll, Souleymane Sy Savane
Although the film centers on Childers, it starts off with a scene in South Sudan, where the LRA are attacking a village. This opening scene is placed into context later in the film. Childers was an alcoholic drug-using biker from Pennsylvania. On his release from prison, he finds that his wife has given up her job as a stripper, because she has since become a Christian. Eventually, after he almost kills a vagrant the night before, his wife persuades him to go to church with her, where he is eventually converted.
The Stoning of Soraya M. (2010)
, 1h56Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jim Caviezel, Mozhan Marnò, Parviz Sayyād, Navid Negahban, David Diaan
Stranded in the remote Iranian village of Kuhpayeh by car trouble, a journalist is approached by Zahra, a woman with a harrowing tale to tell about her niece, Soraya, and the bloody circumstances of Soraya's death, by stoning, the previous day. The two sit down as Zahra recounts the story to Freidoune, who records the conversation with his tape recorder. The journalist must escape with his life to tell the story to the rest of the world.
Snowmen (2010)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Bobby Coleman, Josh Flitter, Ray Liotta, Beverley Mitchell, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Christopher Lloyd
Billy Kirkland (Bobby Coleman), is a 10-year-old boy with cancer who is convinced that he has only weeks to live. He has two misfit best friends, Lucas Lamb (Christian Martyn) and Howard Garvey (Bobb'e J. Thompson) who he attends school with. Wanting to remembered, Billy and hjs friends try to pursue fame but face a series of schemes which stand in their way, including their neighbourhood bullies.
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Snowmen (2010)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Bobby Coleman, Josh Flitter, Ray Liotta, Beverley Mitchell, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Christopher Lloyd
Billy Kirkland (Bobby Coleman), is a 10-year-old boy with cancer who is convinced that he has only weeks to live. He has two misfit best friends, Lucas Lamb (Christian Martyn) and Howard Garvey (Bobb'e J. Thompson) who he attends school with. Wanting to remembered, Billy and hjs friends try to pursue fame but face a series of schemes which stand in their way, including their neighbourhood bullies.