24
Hours with the Makers
Twenty-four master artists. One day each — charted across the world like a treasured atlas.
What 24 Is
One master artist. One full day. Kept exactly as it happened.
A documentary series following master Christian artists across the globe — from a Norwegian studio before dawn to a Texas film set at dusk. Not entertainment to be consumed and forgotten, but cultural documentation: a permanent record of living mastery.
The Atlas · A Day With a Master, Anywhere in the World
Eleven masters charted. The world still to map.
From a Norwegian studio before dawn to a Texas film set at dusk. Each mark is one artist, one full day on film. Tap to step into their world.
Norway :Oslo, Aurskog, Telemark, Øyfjell, Vinje. Colombia: Bogota. Ireland: Belfast, Northern Ireland. USA: Cumberland Maryland, Nashville, Franklin, Washington DC, New Castle, Poolville Texas,
Upcoming. Hong Kong, Netherlands, Israel
Masters Charted
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The Full Atlas
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Still Uncharted
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The Collection · Eleven of Twenty-Four
A living archive of world-class Christian mastery.
Not hobbyists or influencers — working masters whose decades of formation meet museum, concert-hall, and broadcast standards. Eleven days are on film. Step into any one.
Aurskog, Norway
Arild Sæther
Forty years of commercial illustration for nearly every major Norwegian brand.
In the episode
His drawings have been on the milk cartons, yoghurt pots, brewery labels and Christmas calendars of an entire nation for thirty years. He is also a Bible teacher who builds 3D multimedia scripture presentations distributed through churches and Bible schools across Scandinavia. None of the commercial work carries his name — by design.
Bogotá, Colombia
John Hernandez
Founder of the first Colombian animation studio Cartoon Network ever co-produced.
In the episode
In his episode: Bogotá at full volume at dawn, a Zoom call with Nashville, and a pitch built like a film score — the work of a man who became someone who could be trusted with a studio.
Aurskog, Norway
Justin Swain
Lead engineer of the touring Aslan puppet for the Academy’s Narnia productions.
In the episode
In his episode: a lion large enough for three people inside, that breathes, walks, and dies on a stone table — and the boy from a hard November who is, by his own account, only a few decisions away.
New Castle, Virginia
Sienna Turecamo
Forty years of commercial illustration for nearly every major Norwegian brand.
In the episode
In her episode: the silence of a Virginia mountain town at four in the morning, the patience the dark demands, and a life built ten minutes from the Appalachian Trail.
Bogotá, Colombia
David Smith
Musician, actor and storyteller across film, stage and three nations.
In the episode
In his episode: an Atlantic morning on a north Antrim beach, the year the music stopped, and the slow return of the right melodies through a new ecosystem built to receive them.
Franklin, Tennessee
Michael Rix
Banjo player with 24+ million streams, from cult survivor to country stage.
In the episode
In his episode: noon on the brick of Franklin’s public square, the long road out of a cult and into country music, and the banjo finally coming home.
South Belfast
Ross & Emma Cunningham
A painter–preacher and a London-trained dressmaker, working under one modernist roof.
In the episode
In their episode: a 1962 architectural treasure that is half home and half gallery, two studios on two rhythms, and a marriage of twenty-four years that decided the household itself was the point.
Cumberland, Maryland
Elijah Thane
Florence-trained muralist painting public walls across America.
In the episode
In his episode: the scaffold and the small-town wall, the dew on the false stones of a first-century set, and a young master who took classical training to Cumberland, Austin and Miami.
Franklin, Tennessee
Anders Kvåle Rue
Historical illustrator of Norway’s greatest medieval manuscript.
In the episode
In his episode: the north-east light of a Telemark studio, the helmets and ships of the year 1030, and an image of his that now travels the world inside the Icelandic passport.
Brandi Knight
Brandi Knight
Head of makeup, hair and SFX at a Texas Christian film studio.
In the episode
In her episode: the prosthetics and wounds of a first-century world, the road from construction labourer to department head, and a mother of five who taught herself every tool she owns.
Øyfjell, Telemark, Norway
Ruth Kvålo Dalen
Telemark painter of portraiture, surreal landscape and faces in the trees.
In the episode
In her episode: a small white house at sunrise, the wood-stove discipline of the inland Norwegian winter, and a body of work arguing that a country Christianised a thousand years ago is not finished being Christian.
The next master could be one you know.
Thirteen plates remain unfilled. Nominate a maker whose life of craft deserves to be charted.
Inside Each Episode
We unveil the human behind the artist.
Each episode introduces the artist, their discipline, and their faith journey — then follows a single day as it unfolds, from the first quiet hour to the last reflection.
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Morning Rituals
The quiet moments of prayer, meditation, or a walk in the cold air that fuel the day’s creativity — time spent with the person behind the brush, before any work begins.
02
The Creative Process
Inside the studio, the kitchen, the stage, as the art comes to life. The raw emotion, the resistance, the breakthrough — mastery as it actually happens, not as it’s later described.
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Interactions With the World
The artist among others — an audience, an apprentice being mentored, a community served. Where private discipline meets the people it was always for.
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Glimpses of Faith
How faith lives in a day — not only in overt practice, but in small acts of kindness, patience, and service that reveal what a person is actually made of.
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Vulnerability & Doubt
The honest hours: creative blocks, private struggle, the questions that don’t resolve. The moments that make a faith journey real rather than tidy.
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Reflective Moments
Late-day stillness — the artist contemplating purpose, the role of the work, and what they hope it leaves behind. The day’s quiet reckoning.
Some days lead to a pilgrimage or a sacred ritual. Some end in a breakthrough that moves everyone in the room. All of them end somewhere true.
Take Part in the Voyage
A film like this is built by the people who believe in it.
Eleven masters are already charted, and the journey is just beginning. Whether you watch, point us to an artist, open a room in your city, or stand behind the work — there’s a real way to help carry it forward.
Nominate an Artist
Anyone, anywhere
Know a master the world hasn’t charted yet? Point us toward them. Some of the next stories will come from names only you know.
Host a Screening
Churches · galleries · film clubs · campuses
Bring 24 to your community for an evening — with a discussion guide and, where possible, a live conversation with the director or an artist.
Bring Desmond to Speak
Conferences · festivals · churches · forums
Director Desmond Denton speaks on the human story in the age of machines, the language of cinema, and faith and creative calling.
Partner With Us
Brands · filmmakers · patrons · institutions
Underwrite an artist’s story, collaborate as a filmmaker, or align your name with work built to last. We’ll find the right fit together.
Tap Into a Story Bigger Than You
Inspired by the ultimate Creator,
we embark on a journey beyond the ordinary.
This is ’24’ — a documentary series that steps inside the lives of master Christian artists across the globe. From the vibrant streets of Bogotá to the still studios of inland Norway, we witness their stories of faith, struggle, and quiet triumph.
We were made in His image — as creators. So we follow theirs: the morning rituals, the unglamorous middle hours, the small disciplines kept faithfully for decades. And in their ordinary days we find the themes written into every life — resilience, devotion, and hope.
24 is not content. It is cultural documentation — a deliberate act of preservation, capturing artists whose faith has formed them into masters of their discipline, whose work stands as testimony to what human excellence looks like when rooted in something transcendent. A permanent record of living mastery.
The Shape of Every Day
The clock is the narrator. Each day turns in four movements.
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Vigil
Before dawn
The hours no one sees. Prayer, silence, cold water — where the discipline is forged before the world asks anything.
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Labour
Morning to noon
The work itself. Hands, tools, repetition. The unglamorous middle where mastery actually happens.
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Encounter
Afternoon
The world arrives — collaborators, buyers, the marketplace. Conviction meets the pressure to compromise.
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Vespers
After dark
Reflection and reckoning. What did the day cost, and was it worth it — the quiet accounting of every maker.
Why This Series, Why Now
In an age of infinite, instant content,
formed human mastery becomes rare.
The algorithm rewards volume over value. Machines generate endless imitations. What they cannot generate is a person — someone who has spent thirty winters learning the weight of a single line, formed by faith into a master of their craft. That kind of excellence cannot be automated, and so it is becoming the rarest thing there is.
24 is not content to be consumed and forgotten. It is cultural documentation — a permanent cinematic archive of living mastery, captured at its peak, built to be studied decades from now.
In an age of imitation, we document what cannot be automated: formed human beings.
For Patrons, Festivals & Cultural Investors
Not a series. Cultural infrastructure.
24 is built for those who think in decades, not quarters — who fund galleries, sit on boards, and understand that what endures requires deliberate cultivation.
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Scarcity
As AI floods the world with imitation, formed human mastery becomes exponentially rare — and rarity, paired with excellence, is what endures.
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Labour
24 reframes Christian excellence as world-class: cinematic, museum-standard, and at home in the spaces where taste and capital are set.
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Encounter
Every shoot yields far more than an episode — craft studies, essays, behind-the-discipline stories — building an owned audience before release.
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Vespers
Patrons become part of a permanent archive studied and referenced for decades. Not a donation — a stake in cultural infrastructure.
Host a Screening
Bring 24 to your city.
A church. A gallery. A film club. A room of people who still believe craft matters. We provide the film, the discussion guide, and — where possible — a live conversation with the director or a featured artist.
Private & Public Screenings
Advance episodes for your audience, before public release.
Discussion Guides
Conversation starters on faith, craft and calling.
Live Conversation
Director or featured-artist appearances, in person or virtual.
The Speaking Programme
Desmond Denton
Desmond Denton
Filmmaker · Author · International Speaker
MFA, AFDA Film University. Two decades of international production. 70+ festival selections. Monaco International Best Film. Berlinale Talents. Oscar African jury. Keynote speaker at NRB Nashville 2024 & 2026.
Signature Talks
- The Human Story in the Age of AI
Keynote
- The Language of Cinema
Masterclass
- Story as Cultural Force
Keynote
- The Inner Life of the Artist
Retreat
Ideal for churches, Christian colleges, film festivals, business forums, arts conferences, and cultural foundations — worldwide.
The Invitation
Somewhere right now, a master is at work.
And when the candle is finally lit and the day is done, that day deserves to be remembered.
Eleven of these days are already on film — eleven lives of faith, struggle, and quiet triumph that the world would otherwise never have seen.
Thirteen more are out there now — unnamed, uncharted, still keeping their daily faith with the work. We mean to find every one of them.
