Craig Detweiler is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Davidson College and earned an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema/TV. He also graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity and is completing his Ph.D. in Theology and Culture.

Films he has written include The Duke for Buena Vista (Royalty goes to the dogs!) and the high energy teen road trip, Extreme Days for Providence Entertainment. His documentary, Williams Syndrome: A Highly Musical Species, won a Cine Golden Eagle and the Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival.

His recent projects include Geezer, a high concept comedy co-written with Steve Tompkins (co-creator of The PJs and showrunner for The Bernie Mac Show), and a production rewrite for Meet Me in Miami, a romantic comedy shot starring Latino pop idols, Carlos Ponce and Eduardo Verastegui. He is currently in post-production on a feature documentary about the red state/blue state tension in America entitled, Purple State of Mind.

Craig serves on the advisory boards for Reel Spirituality, the City of the Angels Festival and Act One: Executive Program. He is a contributing editor for The Mars Hill Review.

His first book, A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture (co-written with Barry Taylor), covers music, movies, TV, advertising, fashion and celebrity. Publishers Weekly calls it, “Witty, readable and passionate about both pop culture and their evangelical faith.” It was honored as one of the five finalists for the Gold Medallion in “Theology/Doctrine” by the Christian Booksellers.

Craig and his wife, Caroline, live in Culver City, California, just South of Sony Studios with their children, Zoe and Theo. Caroline is a Ph.D. student at the U.S.C. School of Gerontology. Zoe is a first grader at El Marino Language School, studying Japanese. Theo is tearing the heads off of Zoe’s dolls.