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The Gospel According To Chad

When rock star rabbi Jesus John Christ plots an insurrection of Chads (and a Karen) to make Judea great again and overthrow the secular multicultural regime of Pontius Pilate, his little brother Judas, an uncool soft beta and his biggest stan, is forced to betray him.

  • Liam Mathison Farmer
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Parody, Satire, Farce, Spoof
  • Number of Pages:
    80
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Austin Comedy Film Festival
    Austin, TX
    September 27, 2025
    Finalist, Best Comedy Feature Screenplay
  • Georgia Comedy Film Festival
    Atlanta, GA
    November 10, 2025
    Finalist, Best Comedy Feature Screenplay
  • Austin After Dark
    Austin, TX
    October 18, 2025
    Finalist, Best Comedy Feature Screenplay
  • Big Apple Film Festival
    New York City, NY
    November 10, 2025
    Semifinalist, Best Screenplay
  • Outstanding Screenplays
    London, UK
    January 5, 2026
    Semi-Finalist
  • Finish Line Script Competition

    March 3, 2026
    Honorable Mention
Writer Biography - Liam Mathison Farmer

Liam Mathison Farmer is the writer of the award-winning psychological horror short Coercion, winner of Best Short Screenplay at the 2025 Los Angeles Crime & Horror and Austin Short Film Festivals.

His drama feature Crosswater was a 2024 Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist and Austin Film Festival second-rounder, and his comedy feature The Gospel According To Chad was a 2025 Big Apple Film Festival and Outstanding Screenplays Competition semifinalist.

His other credits include Assistant Director/Production Manager of the comedy shorts Acting 101 and Mis-Conception, both Austin Film Meet productions, and AD/PM of Downhill, a Creative Circuit Studios/Bellamy Films holiday horror short.

Farmer was raised in Chicago but now calls Austin home.

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Writer Statement

After a run of scripts that received notes like, "Too much subtext, I'm not clear on the point or the message, what's this really about?" I reckoned I might have a winner when the feedback for Chad came in consistently along the lines of "Please stop beating us over the head with your messaging, I understand exactly what you're doing here and it's really impolite, for an atheist you sure do like preaching!"

Inspired by an infamous photo of Trump effectively being deified at a campaign event, The Gospel According To Chad delivers exactly what's on the tin. It speaks truth to power, but it also brings the funny. It hits hard, but it never punches down. It's unapologetically political, parodical, and blasphemous, while simultaneously being absurd, farcical, and ridiculous (geez that's a lot of big words…)

"I hate that the cat lived." —Kristi Noem

"I HATE that he wrote me as coming from blue collar. SICK!" —Donald Trump

"I like that the writer is a Bears fan." —Pope Leo XIV