Angel Studios is the world largest producer and distributor of Christian media, with billions of views and downloads--and they are part of this year's ELO Forums!
We are pleased to announce that Jeffrey Harmon, Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer, Angel Studios, will be speaking at both the ELO Forum Vancouver on Nov 5, 2025 and at the ELO Forum Toronto on Nov 19th
Angel Studios (see 2025 Highlight Reel) is a quintessential entrepreneurial success story, reflecting perseverance, navigating ups and downs, confronting legal and financial challenges, focusing on the customers, and embracing non-stop innovation. And all this was done in relation to a faith-based audience, challenging the antagonistic norms of mainstream Hollywood media. Angel Studios and the founders have become a completely unique success story.
Angel Studios has achieved enormous success. The numbers speak for themselves. Their "Angel Guild" has over 1,000,000 members and 150,000 investors and supporters. Their movies have been viewed over 150 million times. Their "Dry Bar Comedy" has been viewed over 2 billion times. Two upcoming movies for 2025 are "Truth and Treason" (to be released October 17th) and "Zero AD" (to be released December 19th).
Jeffrey Harmon played a key role in creating Angel Studios' groundbreaking Pay it Forward ticket model which enables moviegoers to purchase tickets for others so they can see a film for free. This model helped propel Sound of Freedom to the top-grossing movie in the US during its July 4th release, earning over $250 million worldwide.
Jeffrey, and his co-founders, are the unlikeliest of candidates to be executives at a movie studio. They grew up working the potato farms of southern Idaho with access to only three TV stations. In a Babylon Bee interview (2022) Jeff recalled he could count the films he had seen in the dollar theatre on one hand. Making movies wasn’t even on his radar as a child.
While brainstorming about the endless customization made possible by the internet, brothers Neal, Daniel, and Jeffrey Harmon asked themselves why there wasn’t a way to skip scenes in movies where their mother used to reach for the remote. That night, Neal wrote software to skip violent boxing scenes and mute offensive language while streaming Cinderella Man. Later, they watched the movie together as a family to teach his oldest son about honesty.
VidAngel, the original company, rebranded as Angel Studios, shifted its focus from identifying and skipping bad stuff in Hollywood stories to finding and distributing the very best stuff as a brand-new studio and streaming service.
Angel is a streaming platform offering movies, shows, and documentaries for all ages. Their media library is full of award-winning, viewer-supported entertainment designed to inspire, uplift, and unite through meaningful storytelling. From captivating original series like The Wingfeather Saga to powerful films like Sound of Freedom and His Only Son, to hilarious, family-friendly comedy shows like Dry Bar Comedy, Angel has something for everyone.
Angel Studios also initially launched and distributed the popular tv series The Chosen. The Chosen is an historical drama television series about the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. Primarily set in Judaea and Galilee in the 1st century, the series depicts Jesus's life through the eyes of the people who interacted with him, including the apostles and disciples of Jesus, Jewish religious leaders, Roman government and military officials, and ordinary people.
