Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher (2005)

Name: Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2005-04-24

1h 45m

Running Time

Plot.

Lonnie Frisbee was a young hippie seeker fully immersed in the 1960s counter culture when he claimed to have experienced an encounter with God while on an acid trip. This event so transformed him that Lonnie became an itinerant Christian evangelist, something of a John the Baptist of Southern California who compelled thousands of fellow spiritual seekers to make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ. During the 1970s Lonnie Frisbee became widely known as California's "hippie preacher," the quintessential "Jesus freak" whose pictures frequented such magazines as Time and Life as the media told the story of a burgeoning "Jesus movement." Lonnie Frisbee provided the charismatic spark that launched the Calvary Chapel church into a worldwide ministry and propelled many fledgling leaders into some of the most powerful movers and shakers of the evangelical movement.

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Cast & Crew.

Mel White

Self

Phil Aguilar

Actor

Troy Perry

Self

Lonnie Frisbee

Self

Marjoe Gortner

David Di Sabatino

Director / Writer / Executive Producer

Brian Bird

Consulting Producer

Ron Zauneker

Editor

David Di Sabatino

Director

Details.

Release Date
April 24, 2005

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 45m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-15

Wiki.

Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher is a 2005 biographical documentary film about American Pentecostal hippie evangelist Lonnie Frisbee. It was written, produced and directed by David Di Sabatino and narrated by Jim Palosaari. The film includes interviews with Palosaari, Frisbee's ex-wife Connie Bremer, and Randy Stonehill.

Finished in March 2005, Frisbee was first accepted into the Newport Beach Film Festival where it sold out the Lido Theater, not far from where the Frisbees once ran the Blue Top Commune, a Christian community of young hippie believers.

The documentary was subsequently accepted into a variety of other festivals including the Mill Valley Film Festival (2005), ReelHeART Int'l Film Festival (2005), Ragamuffin Film Festival (2005), San Francisco International Film Festival (2006), New York Underground Film Festival (2006) and Philadelphia QFest (2006). The edited movie was shown on KQED (San Francisco) in November 2006, and was released on DVD in January 2007.

A soundtrack featuring the music of The All Saved Freak Band, Agape, Joy and Gentle Faith was released in May 2007. A pre-release version of the DVD was produced that featured 21 recordings of songs by Larry Norman alone, as well as others by Randy Stonehill, Love Song, Fred Caban, Mark Heard, and Stonewood Cross. However, due to licensing issues most of the music was changed for the final release.