A premiere host is responsible for selecting an event date, securing an appropriate venue, promoting the event, providing volunteers to assist with product and information tables, insuring the venue is set up with a qualified AV technician, covering travel expenses for the presentation team, and taking an offering at the close of the film.

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Click on the button above to fill out a brief online application and we will get back to you within a day or two with further questions or details. If for any reason you experience difficulty with this process, feel free to contact us via the email or toll-free phone number listed at the top of this section.

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Churches, theatres, schools, and community meeting halls all work well. In prior years, communities have even secured space in casinos! The most important considerations are the venue’s capacity, the availability of a high-quality projection and sound system, and the absence of competing noise sources.

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Because The Gates of Whiteclay is being introduced via a series of regional premiere tours that run from late February through the third week of May 2025, prospective hosts need to work with our scheduler to find an acceptable date window. This will likely be worked out over the phone once an application has been approved. While the perfect slot cannot be guaranteed, we have done our best to avoid holidays and inclement weather patterns in northern states.

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Yes, but it will require you to assume the added responsibility of introducing the film and familiarizing yourself with the unique resources and opportunities that attendees can take advantage of. This being said, there are things we can do to help with these tasks — and you can always check to see if George Otis or other team members might be available to travel in for the event.

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If you live outside the United States proper (including Canada), please contact us via email to let us know what you would like to do. We are available to discuss translation projects, licensing agreements, area premieres, and even tours.

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While we do not forbid churches from hosting premieres attended largely by members of their own congregation, the primary purpose of a film premiere is to expose a new story to the widest audience possible. When premieres in smaller-sized communities are limited to a single church, this exposure can be difficult to achieve. Accordingly, we encourage hosts to promote the event to a broader circle of churches as well as to any special communities (such as colleges or Native reservations) that may be nearby.

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Though attendance quotas are not strictly enforced, we typically like to see at least 130 participants at premieres hosted in communities with a population under 25,000, and a minimum of 300 in population centers between 25,000 and 50,000. In cities with a population exceeding 50,000, consideration should be given to holding multiple premiere events — either at different locations or on successive nights.

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Yes. In addition to the website you are now visiting, the ministry is happy to make a film trailer available to anyone who needs to access a copy offline. We also have posters and flyer print masters, and are willing to make ourselves available for media interviews.

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Yes. As mentioned above, we actually encourage this in larger metropolitan areas where a single premiere is insufficient to meet the needs of interested participants. In some situations hosts may live in one area but work or attend church in another.

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Attendance is free, but an offering will be taken for the Sentinel Group.

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Hosts should anticipate three hours for the premiere itself, plus an additional thirty minutes for room set up and break down. This accounts for opening prayer and intros, podcast teasers featuring associated stories, screening of The Gates of Whiteclay film, offering and follow-up opportunities, and time to visit product and information tables.

Hosts are responsible to cover $250 in travel expenses (the cost of getting to the community), and housing for the visiting presentation team (usually two people). The latter can either be in a hotel, or in a home set up to host tired travelers. Although the Sentinel Group does not charge a set fee to screen its documentaries, we do ask that an offering be taken to help us recoup considerable production costs and make the film available without charge throughout Native America.

The event setup calls for two, and preferably three, tables that can display a variety of post-film engagement information and products for purchase. There is also a need for two conscientious volunteers to man these tables, and a competent audio-visual technician to insure sound and projection equipment is set up and running properly.

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Presentation teams consist of two people sent out by the Sentinel Group to provide the audience with a backstory to the film, explain follow-up opportunities at its conclusion, and engage attendees with questions about Whiteclay or the general principles of transforming revival.

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As stated previously, communities with significant interest in transforming revival can opt to extend a premiere event by an additional day in order to hear from catalysts involved with the Whiteclay story and elsewhere. Given the extra coordination required to arrange these mini-conferences during a busy premiere season, we ask host communities to commit to no fewer than 400 attendees and cover any added travel costs.

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Yes! In addition to receiving a complimentary copy of The Gates of Whiteclay documentary, premiere hosts will gain access to premium content on the Sentinel Group’s new Moving Cloud podcast for one year and receive a 20 percent discount on the ministry’s next FIRE Tour to Whiteclay/Pine Ridge or to Lynch, Kentucky.

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