baptist church industry film founded 2002 headquarters albany georgia united states website sherwoodpictures.com sherwood pictures is an american independent christian film production company in albany georgia united states . it is unusual among production companies in that it is a ministry of a local church sherwood baptist church . the company uses mostly volunteers in their productions . it was founded in 2002 by alex kendrick the associate pastor of media for sherwood baptist church with 20 000 in donations . the company s first film was flywheel 2003 but it is best known for facing the giants 2006 fireproof 2008 the highest grossing independent film of the year and courageous 2011 . the kendrick brothers have also directed and produced war room 2015 although this is not a sherwood pictures film . contents 1 history 2 filmography 3 cast 4 references 5 external links history edit sherwood pictures was founded in 2002 by alex kendrick the associate pastor of media for sherwood baptist church with 20 000 in donations . kendrick has also written and directed each of sherwood s films . 1 the budget of each film has been significantly larger than the film directly previous at 20 000 for flywheel 100 000 for facing the giants 500 000 for fireproof and 2 million for courageous . 2 sherwood s films have earned back their budgets dozens of times over . facing the giants made 102 times its budget fireproof earned 67 times its budget and courageous made eight times its budget in its first ten days in theaters . 3 in 2011 the hollywood reporter wrote about sherwood s increasing success the movies have progressed from amateurish to critical successes . the characters are complex and well drawn struggling with various personal issues that test their faith and character in believable ways the hollywood reporter film reviewer frank scheck wrote of courageous . 3 filmography edit flywheel 2003 facing the giants 2006 fireproof 2008 courageous 2011 war room 2015 as kendrick brothers productions release cast edit actor actress film flywheel facing the giants fireproof courageous alex kendrick jay austin grant taylor pastor strauss adam mitchell kirk cameron caleb holt shannen fields miss gardner brooke taylor erin bethea alicia houston catherine holt ken bevel michael simmons nathan hayes tracy goode bernie myers brady owens benny murphy jim mcbride butch bowers bobby lee duke carl hatcher church member jason mcleod brock kelley eric harmon kevin downes shane fuller janet lee dapper judy austin school teacher nurse bailey cave david childers ross walter burnett max kendall stan schulz dr. anderson carla hawkins ms. wright tina simmons renee jewell winners friend jackie victoria mitchell references edit fisher luchina october 3 2008 . fireproof shows christian movies sell . abc news . retrieved december 15 2009 . newcomb tim august 25 2011 . faith based filmmaking the sherwood pictures crusade . time . retrieved september 17 2011 . a b box office shocker how moviemaking georgia church behind courageous outperforms hollywood external links edit official company website kendrick brothers website sherwood pictures at the internet movie database retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sherwood pictures & oldid 716413392 categories sherwood pictureschristian media companiescompanies based in dougherty county georgiachristian film production companiesfilm production companies of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages bahasa indonesiaportugu ssimple english edit links this page was last modified on 21 april 2016 at 16 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view