Channel 7 will show a modern day take on the nativity story on Christmas Day this year, if the producers can secure enough funding.

The half-hour show, dubbed ‘A Wise Man?’ will tell the Christmas story through the eyes of a modern day wise man, Abe Collins, a fictional Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University.

Producer Phil Smith says the show is designed to shift people’s perception of the Christmas story from an outdated children’s story, to something that really happened.

“The idea is to use a current format of a TV show. So it’s in the style of the ABC’s Australian Story documentary programme.

“It’s trying to engage with people that know it well as perhaps be it an interesting introduction for those people who perhaps don’t know it so well.”

Australian Christian Multimedia is running a crowdfunding campaign to raise $15,000 by Monday for the project, although it will need more to get to air.

Phil says it’s a great opportunity for people to show their support for Christian TV.

“People should support the project if they feel passionate about seeing more Christian content produced and made here in Australia, on their TV screens.”

You can watch their Pozible Pitch here:

‘A Wise Man’ isn’t the only Christian media project on Pozible at the moment. A group of filmmakers are also hoping to create a feature length documentary—‘Smithy’—about founder of the God Squad, John Smith. They’re trying to raise $50,000 to tell his story.

This project is a collaboration between documentary film-maker, Don Parham, and an emerging film-maker, Warwick Vincent. Associate Producer, Vic Campbell is an old friend of Smithy and also of Don Parham. But the connections don’t stop there. Warwick and his wife bought the house that Smithy and his family lived in for 40 years. Don, when he was a professional photographer 25 years ago, took the photo on the cover of John’s autobiography. The men are hoping the documentary will be a fitting tribute to a man who’s been described as ‘John Wesley on a motorbike’.