Dave and Rich Christiano: Wikis

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Dave and Rich Christiano (born October 2, 1956) are Christian filmmakers and twin brothers. Born and raised in Waterloo, New York, United States, the brothers first went to Hollywood at age 20 in hopes to produce films. When they both became Christians a couple of years later, they turned in a new direction and went on to produce films in the Christian film industry.
Starting in 1985, the Christiano Brothers have been two of the most prominent producers of Christian films, without compromise of message, and yet always trying to present entertaining stories in their projects. Their first 8 films were all considered dramatic shorts, each under an hour in length, which was standard for the Christian film industry at that time. Their movies have played on virtually every known Christian Television Network world-wide.

In 2002, they formed Five & Two Pictures as their distribution company for theatrical films and released their first feature length film in theaters, Time Changer, which eventually played in 310 theaters. They followed four years later with the UFO drama, Unidentified which was a much smaller release and only played in 85 theaters. They have produced their third theatrical film, the love story Me & You, Us, Forever, which is set for its initial release in 83 cities on February 15th, 2008. Rich recently completed filming The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry in the summer of 2007 with Gavin MacLeod in the lead role. It is being planned for an September 2008 release. Dave is looking to shoot his next film project in 2009 entitled, "True Champion", about a championship artistic roller skater with actress Stacey J. Aswad in the lead role (herself a former champion).

The brothers also turned to weekly television when Dave began production on his TV series, 7th Street Theater. The series began airing weekly on Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world's largest faith-based TV Network, on March 3rd, 2007 (Saturday nights at 11pm est, 10pm cst, 9pm mst, and 8pm pst). It was the first ever prime time Christian drama series in the history of broadcasting. Twenty-four episodes were produced for Season One. Production of another 24 episodes for Season Two began in April 2007.