CREATION FESTIVAL - THE MOVIE

[@raulalejandrogarciaramirez4468]

When I was a child, they gave me a VHS of Creation festival 99, this one, with subtitles in Spanish since I'm from Mexico, thanks to this video I met God, 23 years have passed since that. Thanks for uploading it, I thought I would never see it again. Greetings to all.

[@AdamHrebeniuk_apexadam]

I met my wife at Creation Fest 85 Puyallup WA and never looked back! What a gift!

[@tesseby6575]

I miss the good ol’ days!!!

[@praisebrown6113]

I remember going to Creation back in June of 2001, it was my first time and I had a great time

[@k8tcowgirl]

We had this video on vhs and us kids watched it all the time for the entire year before we went. One of the most amazing memories as a family growing up! Sad to see them retire the festival. Was hoping to take my kids some day.

[@stevec4610]

Oh man, literally the same! I was shown this at Youth Group, loved the VHS, asked for it, downloaded every song on Napster and watched it all the time and i went 2 years later lol

[@Atleastihavemydog]

I know this all ended in a terrible way, but Creation East was heaven on earth for me as a kid. I went every year for over a decade.

[@phaxad]

I was there in 1998. Pennsylvania.

[@aaronfield329]

Thank you for sharing this. I was there for this. And seeing it again after so long was a huge blessing.

[@oldman9843]

Was there in 1981, was a great time!

[@Robert08010]

My first year was '83.

[@KJ-jr2zc]

57:11 I’m ready to come back to that exact moment 💎🤍

[@THB_DX]

Wow that's me, my brother and sister at 1:04:09

[@Robert08010]

I'm mift that someone cut off the credits! How dare they?!?!? LOL. The actual concert footage was shot by a separate crew brought in to feed the jumbo-tron. I was one of 4 guys hired to shoot the behind the scenes footage. My assignment was following the festival director around all day and shooting whatever he was involved with. Besides that I shot a lot of b-roll as well. So I am proud to say that of all the behind the scenes and setting up footage, a good 25% is my footage. There's even one or two very short shots I took from the stage wings that were used as well. The production crew are trained to avoid shooting each other. But since my assignment was behind the scenes, I shot the camera crane and the monitor engineer at the sound board.

[@s.forester699]

This looks like some of the footage was Creation 2007 or 2008 (the VeggieTales suits). I wasn't at Creation in '99, but I remember seeing this Larry Norman performance as part the tribute to him in '08, because he had died earlier that year. I never knew who he was until I saw the video footage they were playing of him.

[@s.forester699]

Whoops, I just realized the whole video was shot in 1999. I didn't look at the signs and badges. I thought it was 2008 ... I was off by 9 years. :D

[@leestaniszewski7236]

2000 was release date.

[@Robert08010]

@@s.forester699 A funny behind the scenes note: It was early evening and Larry Norman was on stage when the chopper came swooping in to shoot that aerial footage. Only nobody expected that tiny "MASH" styled chopper to make that much noise. It was 2 to 3 times louder than a modern chopper and drew everyone attention including Larry Norman's. He didn't realize this chopper was hired by the festival production staff specifically for this shot and he went off on a brief rant about the worldly media, etc. At that time I was shooting footage for this video and even I didn't know someone hired the chopper. I only found out afterward. About 1/4 of this video was shot by me and I sometimes think about doing my own commentary track. This is supposed to be a behinds the scenes video so I would be making a behind the scenes of the behinds the scenes.

[@eliwert2002]

46:52 Here comes the Rumor Weed Song!

[@JamesStonley]

loved Larry Norman at 39:62

[@Canimals4Life]

The Song I’m Here For: 46:52

[@Gpacharlie]

I was wondering what year this was?

[@leestaniszewski7236]

This was definitely before 2005 because I did creation West and East in 2005 and I had this movie before then.

[@leestaniszewski7236]

Just found it 2000 is when it was released.

[@Robert08010]

This was shot in June of 99. I know for certain because it was the same year as the columbine shooting. That was just a few months earlier. There might a few shots of archival footage from earlier years but most of it was shot in June of 99.

[@marthadesouzadias9011]

As they said 1999 .

[@brandonwalker5057]

Has anyone died in creation Festival before Because near the end of the movie video I see many wooden Cross?

[@leestaniszewski7236]

The crosses are not there because someone has died they are they are there to symbolize The The Rebirth of Christ.

[@brandonwalker5057]

@@leestaniszewski7236 I saw this guy doing a documentary video in creation fest 2016, him and his two kids boxes and nails and they were nailing a wooden cross with a hammer, and these two old ladies says: that's because someone died.

[@leestaniszewski7236]

The man who ran the pizza trailer did die of a heart attack one year at the festival but the crosses were there long before that.

[@DanielJosephCurcio]

No they were there to remember the columbine victims which occurred just months prior.

[@Robert08010]

I think there was a young person who died walking on the road between the festival grounds and Mt Union many many years ago. Although that is not related to the crosses at the end. Here is their story: In the days immediately following the Columbine shooting, a fellow feeling moved of the spirit, set up a memorial across the street from Columbine High where the attack occurred. The memorial was to honor the young people who died at Columbine. Although at first well received, only a few short months later, the community decided the memorial was not welcome to be a permanent part of the neighborhood. In part this was because he choose to honor ALL those who died there as victims, even the two perpetrators. I get the logic from a spiritual standpoint, but others who were close to the victims couldn't accept that and he was asked to remove the crosses. Not knowing where to take them or what to do with them, he reached out to creation festival leadership and asked if he might set them up there just for the June 99 festival. Ultimately, he did and went on to set them up at several places around the country. With all the copycat mass shooting that have happened since, its difficult to imagine this event was just 23 years ago. In such a short time, we've become so callous. Another mass shooting happens and it remains in our consciousness for what... 15 minutes?

[@everythingiseconomics9742]

I hope at least one Christian there was on LSD or Molly.

[@2bwiredornot2b]

nope, no drugs allowed. Besides drugs kill, my family that didn't believe in Jesus, died from drugs… 🙏for you that you seek the light of God thru Jesus