The people behind the film.
The Lord has assembled a unique team that combines decades of film production, media ministry, and proven business success.
Trey Reynolds
Producer, Director, Writer
Trey is a seasoned filmmaker with more than 25 years of experience spanning small start-ups, Fortune 100 companies, and major motion picture studios. Over the course of a decade leading a full-service production company, he traveled the world producing documentaries, television content, and branded content for global clients including FedEx, Coca-Cola, CBS, and ESPN.
Since 2015, Trey has focused exclusively on faith-based and inspirational storytelling, contributing to films such as War Room, Woodlawn, Indivisible, and Overcomer. During his tenure as Vice President of Sony's Provident Films, he produced the Netflix original Blue Miracle, starring Dennis Quaid, which debuted in 2021 as the #2 movie globally, as well as the family comedy Family Camp, released theatrically by Roadside Attractions in 2022.
Most recently, Trey produced the Kendrick Brothers' seventh feature, The Forge, released in theaters by Sony Pictures in August 2024, and wrote, produced, and directed the upcoming faith-based feature Rescued, starring Kristoffer Polaha and Sarah Lancaster, slated for release in 2027.
Trey wrote the screenplay for The Thief on the Cross as well as produced and directed the short film proof of concept completed in 2025. He lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with his wife and their four children.
Colin Smith
Executive Producer · Author, Heaven, How I Got Here
Colin was in the pulpit the day this story started. His Luke 23 sermon became Heaven, How I Got Here, the book the feature is based on, now translated into fifteen languages with more than 250,000 copies shared.
Colin is President of Open the Bible, whose teaching reaches more than four million people a week across a thousand radio stations. A native of Scotland with degrees in theology and philosophy, he is Pastor Emeritus of a six-site church in the Chicago area and the author of more than 20 books.
The executive producers.
Three Chicago-area business leaders who have carried the project from sermon to soundstage.
John Aiello
Executive Producer
Executive Director of Open the Bible. A technology entrepreneur who raised more than $80 million before turning to ministry; former Kellogg adjunct professor and a member of the Chicagoland Entrepreneur Hall of Fame.
Mike Levon
Executive Producer
President and CEO of Vonberg Valve, Inc. and chairman of Open the Bible.
Bill Bradish
Executive Producer
Founder of Bradish & Associates and a director of Open the Bible.
Meet them on the call.
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