Six Continents, One Story: Heroes from Heaven Named Finalist Work of Excellence at the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival 2025

The global journey of Heroes from Heaven: Battleground Earth has reached South America in triumphant fashion. The faith-based action epic screenplay by Dr. Scott Glenn and Geoffrey D. Calhoun has been named a Finalist Work of Excellence at the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) 2025 — one of Latin America’s most prestigious and celebrated independent film events — adding yet another continent and another landmark recognition to the project’s extraordinary international legacy.

About the Honor

The Finalist Work of Excellence distinction at BAFICI is a highly coveted recognition, reserved for projects that demonstrate outstanding quality, originality, and cinematic vision among an intensely competitive international field. To earn this honor at one of Latin America’s premier independent film festivals is a powerful affirmation of everything Heroes from Heaven: Battleground Earth represents — a story of universal faith, redemption, and the enduring human struggle between light and darkness that transcends borders, languages, and cultures.

For Dr. Scott Glenn, whose vision for this project has always been as global as the story itself, the recognition from Buenos Aires is a deeply meaningful milestone — confirmation that the themes at the heart of Heroes from Heaven resonate as powerfully in South America as they have in Europe, Africa, and the United States.

About BAFICI 2025

The Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival is Argentina’s premier independent film event and one of the most important celebrations of independent cinema in the entire Latin American region. The 2025 edition took place from April 1 to April 13, 2025, across multiple iconic venues throughout the Argentine capital, including the Cinépolis Recoleta and Cinépolis Plaza Houssay — two of Buenos Aires’ most celebrated cinematic destinations.

BAFICI draws submissions from filmmakers around the world and has built its reputation over decades as a festival that champions bold, original, and uncompromising independent voices. Its commitment to discovering and elevating exceptional work from across the global independent film community makes a Finalist Work of Excellence recognition among the most meaningful a project can receive in this region.

Buenos Aires is also home to a vibrant and growing independent film scene supported by multiple major events throughout the year, including the BUEIFF (Buenos Aires International Film Festival) — one of the largest film competitions in the region operating on a semi-annual basis — and the FICPBA (International Film Festival of the Province of Buenos Aires), a government-backed initiative focused on themes of identity and diversity. Together these events make Buenos Aires one of the most dynamic hubs for international independent cinema in the world.

Why Latin America Matters for Heroes from Heaven

The BAFICI Finalist Work of Excellence honor carries a resonance for Heroes from Heaven that extends well beyond the award itself. The screenplay’s world is divided into seven reimagined continents — including the SouthWestLand, formerly known as South America — governed by MaTias, the story’s primary antagonist, whose sin of Wrath has carved a nation from blood and bone. It is MaTias who calls the dark ritual, who sentences LacHain to the Hate Camps, and who serves as the instrument of the Sovereign’s will throughout Feature One.

But MaTias is more than a villain. He is a grieving father who was manipulated into darkness by Lucifer himself — a man whose wrath was weaponized against his own humanity. His story is one of the screenplay’s most powerful and complex arcs, and it is set against the backdrop of a South American nation whose people have suffered under his reign. For Latin American audiences, the themes of oppression, resistance, liberation, and faith that run through this story are not abstract — they are deeply familiar, deeply felt, and deeply relevant.

The recognition from BAFICI signals that Latin America’s film community sees this story and finds its truth reflected in the narrative. That connection will be invaluable as Heroes from Heaven moves toward production and distribution.

About Heroes from Heaven: Battleground Earth

Heroes from Heaven: Battleground Earth is a faith-based action epic co-written by Geoffrey D. Calhoun and Dr. Scott Glenn, based on the original novel by Dr. Glenn. Set in a dystopian future following the Great Holy War of 2058, the story follows LacHain — the reluctant leader of the UnderLand, formerly known as Australia — as he awakens to his faith, is executed for it, and is resurrected alongside ancient biblical warriors hiding in plain sight among the enslaved faithful.

Samson, Abraham, Lazarus, Moses, David, and Mary Magdalene reveal themselves one by one and join LacHain in an epic battle against the Seven Continental Alliance — seven leaders each embodying one of the Seven Deadly Sins — and their master, the Sovereign, revealed in the screenplay’s stunning climax to be Lucifer himself. Designed as a sweeping two-feature cinematic event, Heroes from Heaven is a story built for faith audiences and action fans around the world.

A Global Legacy That Keeps Growing

The BAFICI Finalist Work of Excellence honor joins a remarkable and still-growing collection of international recognitions for Heroes from Heaven: Battleground Earth:

• Best Feature Screenplay — 8th Annual Greece International Film Festival (GIFF) 2025
• Monthly Picks Honor — Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards 2025
• Best Unproduced Script — Action — Madrid International Film Festival 2025
• Official Selection — Feature Script — 2nd All African Independent Film Festival (AAIFF Africa), Kigali, Rwanda 2025
• Finalist Work of Excellence — Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) 2025
• Official Attendance — 20th Annual Beaufort International Film Festival (BIFF), February 2026

From Athens to Rome, Madrid to Kigali, Buenos Aires to Beaufort — across six continents and six of the world’s most respected independent film platforms — Heroes from Heaven: Battleground Earth has proven itself to be exactly what it set out to be: a story for the entire world.

Heroes from Heaven: Battleground Earth is currently in development and actively seeking distribution and production partners. For more information visit www.heroesfromheaventhemovie.com or contact Dr. Scott Glenn