Craig Detweiler

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Craig Detweiler is a recognized author, screenplay writer, film professor and the former chair of the mass communication department at Biola University. He left this position in 2006 to accept a full time position heading the new film studies department at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Detweiler was the screenwriter for the Disney film The Duke as well as Extreme Days. With Barry Taylor, Detweiler co-authored the book A Matrix Of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture which has been used as a textbook by many Christian media students and by others seeking to find religion within the entertainment industry.

In 2007, Detweiler completed production on a documentary investigating the clash between the secular and the Christian world entitled Purple State of Mind.