BLAKELY, COLQUITT AND CAMILLA, GA (ANS) -- A few years ago, Ralph Wilcox, a veteran Hollywood star of great movies such as MOVIEGUIDE® award winners, ONCE UPON A TIME, WHEN WE WERE COLORED and television programs such as LOU GRANT, MAUDE and HAPPY DAYS, started his own movie company in the cotton patches of Southwest Georgia.

Joel Zwick & Dr. Ted Baehr

He also founded the Jokara-Micheaux Film Festival, which has grown to be a major event in which MOVIEGUIDE® participates every year.

On Labor Day weekend, the Film Festival hosted the Third Annual Jokara-Micheaux Film Festival in the towns of Blakely, Colquitt and Camilla in southwest Georgia featuring some of the best from Hollywood.

Joel Zwick of MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, FAT ALBERT and FULL HOUSE fame spoke. Beverly Todd, who starred in THE BUCKET LIST, CRASH, THE LENA BAKER STORY, and many other movies (and has been featured at the Annual MOVIEGUIDE® Faith & Values Awards Gala & Report to the Entertainment Industry, also spoke. And, wonderful movies were shown, including THE LENA BAKER STORY.

Once again, Dr. Ted Baehr, founder and publisher of the MOVIEGUIDE®: The Family Guide to Movies & Entertainment, spoke several times during the event. Dr. Baehr showed how good movies always do better at the box office and spiritually uplifting movies do even better.

Barton Rice, Executive Producer of THE LENA BAKER STORY & Ralph Wilcox

“The response was very enthusiastic,” Dr. Baehr told ANS. “What was better than the response was that the LENA BAKER STORY production went from having a very depressing perspective to a very Christian perspective, to a large degree because of MOVIEGUIDE®’s encouragement and annual analysis of the box office.”

Baehr said he was delighted to learn that many of the producers, directors and writers at the film festival are “going back to Hollywood” with “the good news that good movies do better at the box office.”

Actor Tom Huff told Dr. Baehr, “This last weekend was one of the most positive experiences of my life. Yours and Ralph's words brought a great deal of joy to my heart.”

The Third Annual Jokara-Micheaux Film Festival was hosted by HennyPenny Video/Television Training Program, Laughing Crow 1 Entertainment, LLC, the City of Camilla, and the Southwest Georgia Film Commission Office.

Dan Wooding, 67, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma of 45 years. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS); and US Bureau Chief for the Missionaries News Service (www.missionariesnews.tv) and Safe Worlds IPTV’s Christian News Services. He was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. Wooding He is also the author of some 42 books, the latest of which is his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, go to www.fromtabloidtotruth.com. E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com.