All of this started when Dallas Jenkins, the brains behind VidAngel's "The Chosen," created a short film for his church's Christmas Eve service. It was a personal passion project he had no intention—at least not at that time—of scaling into a multi-season drama with a record-breaking budget.

Unbeknownst to him, an up-and-coming streaming service, VidAngel, caught wind of Jenkins' film. Impressed by his work, they reached out to Jenkins, offering a partnership but explaining funding for the show would need to be crowdsourced.

"I got really excited, and then they said, 'We think we can do it through crowdfunding,' and I got really depressed," the filmmaker recalled during an interview with Faithwire, confident it just wouldn't work.

But then it worked. Through crowdfunding alone, Jenkins was able to raise more than $10 million from roughly 16,000 people around the world... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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