Brian Godawa
screenwriter
Brian James Godawa (born November 10, 1961) is an American screenwriter and author. He wrote the screenplays for To End All Wars and The Visitation, and co-wrote Change Your Life! with Adam Christing and My Son Hunter with Phelim McAleer.
Godawa's book, Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment (ISBN 0830837132), is in its ninth printing. He is also a contributor to the BioLogos Forum.
His Biblical Fantasy books, the Nephilim Chronicles, are an imaginative retelling of Biblical stories of the Nephilim giants, the secret plans of the fallen Watchers (angel), and the War of the Seed of Serpent with the Seed of Eve. The sequel series, Chronicles of the Apocalypse, tells the story of John the Apostle's Book of Revelation. The Chronicles of the Watchers "recounts true history through the Watcher paradigm."
Early and personal life
Godawa was born on November 10, 1961, at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois, to Erwin and Lorraine Godawa. He attended Northern Illinois University, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors in Illustration. He resides near Los Angeles, California, with his wife Kimberly.
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