Book Release for Lost & Found in the Cathedral of Cinema

Jeffrey Overstreet, a film critic, novelist, and associate professor of English and creative at Seattle Pacific University, will read highlights from his new memoir, a hybrid of film criticism and spiritual writing called Lost and Found in the Cathedral of Cinema (Broadleaf Books, 2026). He will share discoveries he has made in the light of films as varied as My Neighbor Totoro, Blade Runner, Empire of the Sun, Moonrise Kingdom, Do the Right Thing, Paterson, The Tree of Life, and Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. And he will share how moviegoing became a spiritual discipline — one that that freed him from the fear-driven agendas of religious fundamentalism, even as it inspired him into fuller, richer, more rewarding experiences of faith, hope, and love. Stay for the Q&A, in which Overstreet may ask the audience as many questions as you ask him. He would love to sign your book and talk with you about movies after the presentation.

Event Schedule:

6–7 PM — Reading and reflections 

7–7:30 — Overstreet interviews the audience about formational experiences with movies

7:30–8:30 — Book-signing, and the conversations continue

Jeffrey Overstreet

Jeffrey Overstreet is the author of two memoirs about cinema and faith—Through a Screen Darkly (2007) and Lost and Found in the Cathedral of Cinema (2026)—as well as the fantasy novel Auralia's Colors (2007) and its three sequels. He is an associate professor of creative writing and film at Seattle Pacific University, where students voted him Undergraduate Professor of the Year in 2024. Overstreet formerly served as senior film critic at Christianity Today, and his writing on art, faith, and culture has been published at Image, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Paste, and Comment, and in many other journals. He lives in Shoreline, Washington.