Rebecca Holden Richard Rossi Isaac Bar-Jonah Jozy Pollock Louis Gossett Jr. Lynda Carter Cindy Williams Sally Kirkland Kathy Garver Kathy Coleman Karolyn Grimes Hilary Momberger Joseph Gonzalez Dawna Lee Heising
Cinematography
Richard Krause Jeffrey Griffith Robert Reber Adan Higgins Jeff Woolley Grayson Shapiro
Edited by
Richard Rossi Richard Krause
Music by
Rebecca Holden Richard Rossi Joel Diamond Joshua Rossi
Distributed by
Amazon Vimeo ChristianCinema.com Tubi Roku
Release date
November 2020 (2020-11)
Running time
113 minutes
Country
USA
Language
English
Canaan Land is a 2020 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Rossi and starring Richard Rossi as Brother Billy and Rebecca Holden as Sister Sara Sunday. It is based on the novel of the same name by Rossi. Like the novel it was based on, the film generated controversy at the time of its release from evangelical religious groups, who took issue with Rossi exposing fraudulent faith-healing techniques of well-known televangelists.[1][2][3][4]
It is my intention in exposing the counterfeit to show the search for that which is pure, lovely, true. Defensive believers may say we shouldn't expose the counterfeit, but a counterfeit testifies that there is a truth sets us free.
—Richard Rossi, answering evangelicals who claim Canaan Land is an attack on religion.[5]
^"Televangelists Threaten Controversial New Film 'Canaan Land' That Exposes Charismatic Movement's 'Frauds'". Faith News Network. March 4, 2016. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
^"Controversial 'Canaan Land' is first faith-based film to face-off for Oscar". Religion News. December 9, 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
^Alibabic, Lana (May 20, 2021). "Controversial 'Canaan Land' Film, Considered for Oscar, Catalyzes Other Projects". EDM Chicago News. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
^Nitzschke, Bernd (August 5, 2018). "Religious illusionism and belief in authority (not only) in the age of Trump". Literaturkritik.de. University of Mainz. TransMIT Center for Literature Mediation in the Media. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^Gledhill, Ruth (March 4, 2016). "New film threatens to expose 'fake' faith healing". Christian Today, London. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
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