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ScreenVue is the result of a joint venture and partnership between Christian Video Licensing International (CVLI) and Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) and Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC).

ScreenVue first launched in 2003 as a service of CVLI. The CVLI Church Video License provides legal coverage for churches and for other ministry organizations to show DVDs, Blu-rays, movie downloads and streams of motion pictures. Each organization needs to be specifically covered. Coverage includes playing just a few seconds of a movie all the way up to showing the full-length feature.

Each *Total Producer Church Video License* and *Standard CVLI Video License* (or any *Church Video Licence* globally) comes with free ScreenVue Vault access.

The ScreenVue Vault offers 11,000+ Scene Ideas and Downloads from a variety of movies and resources. 

ScreenVue saves you hours of time finding that perfect movie illustration for next Sunday’s sermon, child or youth service, or video announcement! 

All Scene Ideas (using your own copy or rental; via Blu-ray, DVD, streaming or download) include a scene summary, themes and time cues. 

With Scene *Downloads, simply preview, download and use instantly. 

(*ScreenVue does not sell or rent entire digital copies of movies to download. To purchase or rent entire movies, please access services like Amazon, Google or Vudu).

About Us


### CCLI

Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) was established in 1988 to provide churches with simple, affordable solutions to complex copyright issues. CCLI helps churches maintain their integrity while giving them the freedom to worship expressively and spontaneously.

Churches often face copyright infringement issues in two areas: 1) copying music without permission, and 2) showing movies without authorization.

For copying music to assist with congregational singing, the Church Copyright License provides blanket coverage for 300,000+ songs and 4,500+ publishers and song owners. Currently, global churches are using 600,000+ CCLI licenses.

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### CVLI

From a unique partnership between Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) and Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC), Christian Video Licensing International (CVLI) and the Church Video License was formed in 2001.

The Church Video License provides churches with legal coverage to show all, or any portion of, thousands of movie titles from a number of movie producers, including all the major studios. Currently, the titles from almost 3,000 producers are represented by the Church Video License, including the titles that contain all the Scene Ideas and Scene Downloads that are part of the ScreenVue Vault.

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### MPLC

Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) was founded in 1986 by former MGM executives and an MPAA attorney. Their goal was to develop a process to help the public leverage the work of the creative community without infringing on copyright.

With decades of experience, MPLC has become the world leader in licensing movies, TV programs, and other content for public performances. Through its Umbrella License® MPLC provides a comprehensive copyright compliance solution that is simple and affordable.

MPLC works closely with a variety of institutions, associations, and antipiracy groups to educate the public about copyright and promote the intellectual property rights of the creative community.

Today, MPLC licenses over 500,000 locations worldwide, including, but not limited to, nonprofit organizations, corporations, and government entities.


Partners

## Privacy is Important to ScreenVue.

We’re committed to using the data that you share with us to provide the best possible service and experience. This Privacy Policy explains when and why we collect personal data, how we use it, and how we keep it secure.

When you provide us with personal data or use our websites, you agree to be bound by this policy which we may update from time to time.

### Our Privacy Principles


- We will only collect personal data that is relevant to the services we provide, handle it securely and retain it only as long as necessary.
-  We will always ask you for your communication preferences and make it simple to change them.
-  We will not sell or give your information to a third-party organization other than our trusted service providers who provide certain secure business functions on our behalf
-  Our websites and online services only use temporary ‘session’ cookies to enhance your online experience. We do not use cookies to collect personally identifying information.

The information below provides more detail about how we use your data.

- Who We Are
- The Information We Collect
- How and Why We Use Personal Data
- How We Protect Your Personal Data
- Your Personal Data and Service Providers
- Your Personal Data and Marketing
- How We Use Cookies
- Google Analytics
- Comment Policy
- Update and Access Your Data: Your Rights and Control
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## Who We Are

ScreenVue is an international organization headquartered in the United States, with offices around the world. As such, many of our systems and online services are employed globally.

We are strongly committed to maintaining the privacy of your personal information and the security of our computer systems and online services.

Concerning the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information, ScreenVue makes every effort to ensure compliance with all applicable laws, including the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the all other local privacy regulations.

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## The Information We Collect

When you purchase licenses or services from ScreenVue, we will require only the personal information that is necessary for the administration of your account with us.

As a general rule, we do not collect personally-identifying information about you when you visit our websites or online services and we will retain only the information you choose to share with us.

When you sign up for CVLI/ScreenVue’s licenses or services, you may provide some or all of the following:

- Your title, name, email, postal address, and telephone numbers. 
- Usernames and passwords that you have chosen to log in to secure ScreenVue services.

When you use our websites and online services we collect:

- Information about the licenses and subscriptions that you purchase from us including your method of payment.
- Information about the pages visited, and links clicked, including the date and time.
- The internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.
- Information about the devices you have used, including mobile device identifiers, operating system, IP address and type of browser.

Our websites contain links to other websites. When you leave a ScreenVue website by linking to any of these sites, you are subject to the privacy policy of those sites.

When you interact with us through email, social media, surveys or promotions, we may collect:

- Personal data that you freely provide about yourself that is relevant to the nature of the interaction, such as your name, username and email address. 
- Details of the emails you open, and links clicked.
- Your comments in forums and feedback from surveys.

If you identify yourself by sending an e-mail containing personal information requesting that we mail information to you, we will use this information solely for responding to such requests and for our records. We may forward your e-mail to other ScreenVue employees who are better able to serve you.

### Data obtained from other sources
We may obtain personal data from other legitimate sources, including trusted third-party providers, and use this data to:

Verify and correct the information we hold.

- Send information about license renewal and account management.
- Send marketing communications by post or email.
- Initiate or deliver targeted content via online advertising and social media.


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## How And Why We Use Personal Data

ScreenVue will only collect and retain data that is required to administer your account or improve your experience; and we will provide you with information that we believe is important, in your interest to know, or that you have permitted us to send.

We use your data in the following ways:

To make our services available to you

- Ensuring that the administration of your account is simple and secure. 
- Enabling us to provide the services you require and to process orders and refunds efficiently.
- Enabling us to provide support and respond to inquiries quickly and accurately.
- Where ScreenVue acts as an agent for other rightsholder organizations and you hold one of their licenses, we may be required to share your data with them.

To improve the way we operate and communicate

- The data we hold about you enables us to improve our internal systems and our range of services.
- By monitoring the use of our services, we can detect and prevent misuse and fraud and ensure that they can be accessed safely and securely.
- We use web technologies such as cookies to improve the way our websites and online services work. Some cookies are necessary and, if disabled, will limit functionality and affect your user experience.
- We use tools like Google Analytics to help us understand our users’ experience (e.g., how much time they spend on web pages, which links they choose, what they do and don’t like, etc.).
- User feedback helps us build and maintain our services, determine technical design specifications and monitor system performance.

To ensure our communications are relevant and valuable

- Interactions and browsing behavior help us understand you better and determine what is of most and least interest, meaning we can personalize our services, marketing communications, and promotions and measure their effectiveness.
- We’re committed to respecting your marketing preferences and making it easy to change them.

### Consequences of Not Providing Your Data
You are not obligated to provide your personal information to ScreenVue, LLC. However, ScreenVue is unable to issue and administer copyright licenses, services and agreements without it.

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## How We Protect Your Personal Data
ScreenVue takes the protection of your data very seriously.

- We use firewalls and data encryption to protect data that is stored electronically, and we take appropriate measures to ensure that our buildings and any files we store physically are secure.
- Whenever we collect or disclose personal data, we employ physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to ensure its safety. Consequently, we may ask you for proof of identity before we can disclose personal information to you.
- We encrypt all data that is transferred electronically using the industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- When your data is transferred, stored or processed in a different country, we employ appropriate measures to ensure that your data remains secure.

We cannot guarantee the security of any email provider or online service which is not managed by us, and which you use to transfer data to us.

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## Your Personal Data and Service Providers
ScreenVue works with reputable service providers who may process your data to perform business functions on our behalf. These include Google Analytics, MailChimp/Mandrill, SurveyGizmo and others.

All such service providers are contractually required to keep your data safe, use it only for the purposes agreed, and delete it when it is no longer required. They have agreed not share it, nor use it for their marketing purposes.

We will never give, sell or share your personal data with any third-party for any purpose other than that referred to above.

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## Your Personal Data and Marketing
ScreenVue would like to share potentially valuable or interesting information with you and, from time to time, ask for your feedback via online surveys.

- When you provide us with your personal data, either by phone, email or a physical or online form, we will always provide a clear and simple way to confirm your communication preferences.
- We will never assume your consent to receive email marketing. We will only send you marketing emails where you have opted-in to receive them.
- We may give you the opportunity to opt-in to receive different marketing emails based on your interests. An opportunity to unsubscribe from any list will be clearly provided at the bottom of each email.
- We may mail information to you that we believe will be of legitimate interest.
- We will make it simple for you to change your communications preferences, which you can do at any time online, over the phone or by writing to us.

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## How We Use Cookies
A ‘cookie’ is a file placed on your personal computer’s hard drive by a website.

ScreenVue employs cookies to optimize its service to customers. We do not use cookies to collect personally identifying information from users, nor to track user activities beyond our websites. ScreenVue does not maintain copies of cookies on our websites after you leave them.

Cookies store and exchange small pieces of temporary data between a website and a user’s computer which enable a “session” or “dialogue” between the two machines. With the session established, ScreenVue can tailor its responses (i.e., provide you with the information you want) and help you traverse our web pages efficiently and effectively.  A session is broken when you exit your browser.

ScreenVue uses “session cookies” — (i.e., temporarily stored cookies in your computer’s memory). Session cookies are normally deleted from a user’s computer when the user logs off the computer, or the user exits the browser.

For security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, our websites also employ systems to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the law.

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## Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service that uses cookies stored on your computer to collect and report website usage data.  We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our websites and to identify where we can improve our content and services.  Google collects the IP address you use when you visit the site but does not collect any other personal information about you.  We do not combine the information that Google collects with any other personally identifiable information.

[Learn more about how your data is collected by Google](https://policies.google.com/privacy "Learn more about how your data is collected by Google")

[Prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout "Prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics")

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## Comment Policy
Comments on articles, blogs and videos can be helpful to other viewers, provided that a spirit of helpfulness is the intent of the person doing the commenting.

We review all comments on ScreenVue’s websites. We reserve the right to edit/delete spam comments, duplicate comments, unsupported accusations, vulgar comments, vile comments, personal attacks of any kind, terms offensive to groups when used in a derogatory manner, and any other comment deemed inappropriate at our discretion.

We reserve the right to ban offenders who post comments under another person’s name, submit an egregious comment or repeatedly submit comments that do not meet our standards.

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## Update and Access Your Data: Your Rights and Control
As a benefit of using ScreenVue’s services, we provide you with a way to update your information.  These features allow you to quickly update your personal information at any time, including your name, email address, and profile image.

We are committed to safeguarding your privacy and can only do so if you use ScreenVue Profile features as intended.  Some or all aspects of this Privacy Policy may not apply to individuals who share a login (email and password) with other members of an organization account.

If you believe the information that ScreenVue holds about you is incorrect and you are unable to correct it through our ScreenVue Profile service, please contact us, and we will update our records as soon as possible.

You have the right to see the personal data that we hold about you. However, how we deal with such requests, and whether we charge a fair administration fee may differ depending on the law in the country of your residence.

In all cases, if you would like a copy of the personal data we hold about you, please contact us using our [GDPR / Data Privacy contact form](mailto:support@screenvue.com "GDPR / Data Privacy contact form").

ScreenVue is committed to protecting your personal data and using it only in a manner that is appropriate, fair and transparent. If, however, you have a concern about our use of your data or wish to make a complaint,please contact us using our GDPR / Data Privacy contact form. We will take all reasonable steps to resolve your query or complaint and to do so promptly.



Privacy Policy

The ScreenVue, LLC web site shall be defined herein to include all screenvue.com and all other web pages operated by ScreenVue.

ScreenVue makes available information, materials, and products on this Web site subject to the following terms and conditions. By accessing this site, you agree to the terms and conditions as outlined in this legal notice. ScreenVue reserves the right to change these terms and conditions from time to time at its sole discretion.

__Copyright © 2019 by ScreenVue, LLC. All rights reserved. CVLI® and Screenvue® are trademarks. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.__

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## Use of Software
Any use of software and accompanying documentation from this Web site is subject to the terms of a software license agreement between you and ScreenVue. You must read the license agreement and indicate your agreement to its terms prior to installing or using the software. All rights, title, and interest not expressly granted are reserved.

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## Use of Web Site Information
Except as otherwise indicated elsewhere on this site, you may view, copy, print, and distribute documents available on this Web site subject to the following conditions:

- The document may be used solely for personal, informational, non-commercial purposes.
- The document may not be modified or altered in any way.
- The following copyright notice and permission notice must appear in each document: “Copyright © 2019 ScreenVue, LLC. All rights reserved.”
- ScreenVue reserves the right to revoke such authorization at any time, and any such use shall be discontinued immediately upon written notice from ScreenVue.
- Documents specified above do not include the design or layout of this Web site. Elements of this Web site are protected by trade dress and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part.

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## Warranties and Disclaimers
Except as expressly provided otherwise in an agreement between you and ScreenVue, all information and software on this Web site are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

ScreenVue assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in the information or software or other documents which are referenced by or linked to this Web site. References to corporations and their services and products are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. In no event shall ScreenVue be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages of any kind, or any damages whatsoever, including, without limitation, those resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, whether or not advised of the possibility of damage, and on any theory of liability, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this information.

This Web site could include technical or other inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein; these changes will be incorporated in new editions of this Web site. ScreenVue may make improvements and/or changes in the product(s) and/or the program(s) described in this Web site at any time.

This Web site can be accessed from other countries around the world and may contain references to ScreenVue products, services, and programs that have not been announced in your country. These references do not imply that ScreenVue intends to announce such products, services, or programs in your country.

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## Feedback
Except where expressly provided otherwise by ScreenVue, all comments, feedback, information, or materials submitted to ScreenVue through or in association with this Web site shall be considered non-confidential and ScreenVue’s property. By submitting such comments, feedback, information, or materials to ScreenVue, you agree to a no-charge assignment to ScreenVue of all worldwide rights, title, and interest in copyrights and other intellectual property rights to the comments, feedback, information, or materials. ScreenVue shall be free to use such comments, feedback, information, or materials on an unrestricted basis.

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## Links To Third-Party Web Sites
This Web site contains links to third-party Web sites. The linked sites are not under the control of ScreenVue, and ScreenVue is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. ScreenVue is providing these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement of the linked site by ScreenVue.

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## Governing Law And Jurisdiction
ScreenVue controls this Web site from its offices in Vancouver, Washington, USA. All matters relating to this Web site shall be governed by U.S. federal law or the laws of the State of Washington. You agree that any legal action or proceeding related to this Web site must be instituted in, and jurisdiction and venue are proper in, a state or federal court in Clark County, Washington. Your use of this Web site and its information must comply with all applicable local laws or regulations, and with U.S. export laws and regulations.

Terms

__FREE with a Church Video License,*__ the ScreenVue Vault offers 11,000+ Scene Ideas, Views, and Downloads from a variety of movies and resources. 

__ScreenVue saves you hours of time__ finding that perfect movie illustration for next Sunday’s sermon, child or youth service, or video announcement! 

__[Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)](https://www.screenvue.com/faqs "FAQ's")__
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__WHAT RESOURCES ARE OFFERED BY THE SCREENVUE VAULT?__

The ScreenVue Vault offers THREE different types of SCENES:
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__SCENE IDEAS:__ Use your own movie with our cues and details

To use a SCENE IDEA

- Sign-In.
- Select a Scene (by selecting a MOVIE, a THEME, or by using SEARCH). 
- Utilize the displayed Start/End Times, synopsis, and suggested themes.
- Have the specific movie cued to the appropriate Start Time (using the Digital, Stream, Blu-ray, or DVD you already own, rented or borrowed).
- You're now ready to show the Scene at just the right time in your message!

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__SCENE VIEWS:__ Preview and stream for use

To use a SCENE VIEW

- Sign-In.
- Select a Scene (by selecting a MOVIE, a THEME, or by using SEARCH). 
- If desired, have the Scene cued to a specific start time.
- You're now ready to show the Scene at just the right time in your message!

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__SCENE DOWNLOADS:__ Preview, download and use instantly

To use a SCENE DOWNLOAD

- Sign-In.
- Select a Scene (by selecting a MOVIE, a THEME, or by using SEARCH).
- Click the PREVIEW button to preview the Scene first, if desired.
- Click the DOWNLOAD button.
- Click SAVE, and specify where you want the file saved to.
- Implement the file into your chosen presentation software.
- You're now ready to show the Scene at just the right time in your message!
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__Filtering Scenes__
At the top navigation of any page, there are links to see: "All Scene Ideas," or "All Scene Views," or "All Scene Downloads."

When you click on a Theme and see the results, there is a "Filter Scenes" option to show: All Scenes, Scene Views Only, Scene Downloads Only, or both Scene Views and Downloads Only.

__Please Note__

*ScreenVue Vault content can only legally be used in tandem with a [Church Video License](https://store.ccli.com/).

*Before using ScreenVue content, please check your country’s Authorised Producers List to confirm the content is covered (all ScreenVue content is covered in the USA).

*ScreenVue Vault access is free with a Total Producer Package or Standard CVLI Video License in the USA or with any Church Video Licence globally.

*CVLI & ScreenVue do not necessarily endorse the entire content of any movie listed. Before showing any movie, in whole or in part, please preview and determine if the footage is appropriate for your intended audience.

*ScreenVue does not sell or rent entire digital copies of movies to download. To purchase or rent entire movies, please access services like Amazon, Google or Vudu.

__Email for ScreenVue support__
[support@screenvue.com ](mailto:support@screenvue.com "support@screenvue.com")

__[Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)](https://www.screenvue.com/faqs "FAQ's")__


Support

__Frequently Asked Questions...__

__"I'M NEW - how does the ScreenVue Vault work?"__
- To get a full explanation of how the ScreenVue Vault works, please visit our support page: https://www.screenvue.com/support

__"Where can I find my Access Key to sign-in with?"__
- Every Church Video Licence globally and every *Total Producer Church Video License* (or *Standard CVLI Video License*) in the USA comes with FREE access to the ScreenVue Vault, which is unlocked with your Access Key. Your Access Key will be included in the monthly CVL update emails you receive. If you can't find your Key, please email us at: [support@screenvue.com ](mailto:support@screenvue.com "support@screenvue.com")

__"Why won't my Access Key work?"__
- The usual reason for the Access Key not to work (and a footer error message to appear) is that something is missing from the sign-in protocol.
- Enter the *Email address* associated with your Church Video License (or CCLI account).
- Enter the *Access Key* found in your last CVL update email (exactly, with no spaces).
- Select the *Terms of Use* and a *Keeping in Touch* option.
- You should be in! If you have done all this and still have a problem, please let us know and we'll dig further.

__"In the USA, why don't I have access as a CVL Family Values Package member?"__
- The *CVL Family Values Package* offers only 65+ studios and producers, and does not include any major/minor Hollywood studios - and does not come with ScreenVue Vault access. 
- The *CVL Total Producer Package* offers 4,000+ studios and producers, including every major Hollywood studio and most of the major/minors, and comes with complimentary access to the new ScreenVue Vault: unlocked with a provided Access Key. 
- In the USA, to gain access to the new ScreenVue Vault, please upgrade to a *Total Producer package* by calling: __1-888-771-2854__.

__"What is the difference between Scene Ideas, Scene Views, and Scene Downloads?"__
- The ScreenVue Vault offers THREE different types of Scenes: 
- *Scene Ideas*: Has the "light-bulb icon," where you would use your own movie (Digital, Stream, Blu-ray, or DVD you already have access to) with our cues and details; as this scene is not available as a View or Download. 
- *Scene Views*: Has the "TV icon," where you can preview and stream for use.
- *Scene Downloads*: Has the "download icon," which you can preview, download and use instantly.
- Please visit our Support page for more details: https://www.screenvue.com/support.

__"Why can't I download a Scene Idea or Scene View?"__
- We do not have permission from the studio owners to offer downloads for most Scenes. Instead, use the cues listed in the upper, right hand corner of a Scene Idea in tandem with your own copy or rental, or preview and use a Scene View. The ScreenVue Vault offers THREE different types of Scenes: 
- *Scene Ideas*: Has the "light-bulb icon," where you would use your own movie (Digital, Stream, Blu-ray, or DVD you already have access to) with our cues and details; as this scene is not available as a download. 
- *Scene Views*: Has the "TV icon," where you can preview and stream for use.
- *Scene Downloads*: Has the "download icon," which you can preview, download and use instantly.
- Here is a link to all the movies which have Scene Downloads: https://www.screenvue.com/scene-downloads
- Here is a link to all the movies which have Scene Views: https://www.screenvue.com/scene-views
- When you click on a *Theme* and see the results, there is a "Filter Scenes" option to show: All Scenes, Scene Views Only, Scene Downloads Only, or both Scene Views and Downloads Only.
- Please visit our Support page for more details: https://www.screenvue.com/support.

__"What are the restrictions for streaming our service and including a movie scene? "__
- For churches that stream their services and want to include any part of a movie (the entire film or just a scene), the Church Video License terms do not cover streaming a movie scene - even if used in a sermon - over the internet to the general public.
- However, it is permissible to live stream a movie scene inside the facility as long as it is a closed-stream (not accessed publicly). 
- In light of COVID-19, the Church Video License has made temporary modifications to the license: For churches that stream their services and want to include any part of a movie, they can use a platform that is gated or private (password protected entry to only members and guests and not open to the general public), such as Zoom (requiring a password to join).

__"Can content in the ScreenVue Vault be used with a Church Video Licence anywhere in the world?"__
- Before using ScreenVue content, please check your country’s Authorised Producers List to confirm the content is covered (all ScreenVue content is covered in the USA).

FAQs

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Les Miserables

Helena Bonham Carter

Amanda Seyfried

Russell Crowe

Hugh Jackman

Tom Hooper

Anne Hathaway

It is the year 1815 and hundreds of convicted prisoners are serving a life of hard labor in the French docks.  Under the barrage of violent waves, the weary men are tasked with pulling a giant ship into dock by the strength of their arms.  Lined up along long ropes attached to the ship, the chained men pull and grunt with all their might, while Inspector Javert coldly looks down from above.  The men, many of them in prison for such minor offences as stealing bread for their starving families, are serving long, hard sentences.  While they struggle, they sing of the hopelessness of their existence: ♪ "Look down, look down, you're here until you die.  No God above.  And hell alone below.  Look down, look down.  There's 20 years to go." ♪  One convict begs God for help: ♪ "I've done no wrong.  Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer!" ♪  His fellow prisoners believe God is absent in their suffering: ♪ "Look down, look down, Sweet Jesus doesn't care." ♪ The men, having finished their back-breaking task, file slowly back toward their prison: ♪ "Look down, look down.  You'll always be a slave.  Look down, look down.  You're standing in your grave." ♪

Inspector Javert gives Jean Valjean the papers for his parole.  Javert: ♪ "You know what that means?" ♪  Valjean, feeling the first hope he's felt in his 19 year sentence: ♪ "Yes.  It means I'm free." ♪  Javert tells Valjean he will never be free, never cleansed from his past.  Valjean's papers will always show that he is a convicted criminal: ♪ "This badge of shame, you'll show it 'til you die.  It warns you're a dangerous man." ♪  Valjean, protesting: ♪ "I stole a loaf of bread!" ♪  Javert, the epitome of the law, cares nothing for the nature of Valjean's crime, or that his motives were to save his starving niece.  Javert: ♪ "You will starve again, unless you learn the meaning of the law." ♪  Valjean: ♪ "A slave of the law!" ♪

Jean Valjean has just been released from a 19-year prison sentence.  Roaming the countryside, he is looking for work, but no one wants to hire a convicted criminal.  He approaches a man, asking for a job.  The man asks to see his papers, which show Valjean's criminal status: "No work here."  Valjean nods, moving on.  Later, at his parole hearing, an official tells him that he is marked for life: "As a dangerous man, you will be on parole forever."  As Valjean takes his papers and walks away, the official orders an officer to follow him and watch his movements.  At the next town, children throw rocks at Valjean until he frightens them away.  He goes to an inn, hoping to secure food and a warm fire.  But when the innkeeper asks to see Valjean's papers, Valjean knows he will find no rest there: "I'll sleep in the stable.  Please, I'm hungry."  Innkeeper: "Get out."  The patrons of the inn watch him fearfully.  In an alley outside, several men brutally beat him.  Finally, he wanders away as it begins to snow.

After many unsuccessful attempts at finding food, work, and shelter, Jean Valjean lies down on the ground outside a church to sleep.  A priest comes upon him and invites him in for food and a night's shelter.  Showing Valjean inside, the priest watches as the cold man rushes toward the fire to warm his hands.  Valjean looks hungrily towards the table, where several women watch him, frightened at his fierce and bedraggled appearance.  They serve him food, and Valjean immediately begins to gobble it down.  Hardly pausing as the priest begins to pray, Valjean stops chewing his food, stunned, when the priest prays for God to bless "our honored guest."  So used to being scorned and literally spit on, Valjean doesn't know how to respond to such kindness.  He continues eating.  Later, he is lying in bed, looking up at a mural of Christ on the ceiling.  He sighs, deliberately turning away from the image, knowing what he is about to do.  Sneaking into the bedroom of the priest, he fills a bag with silver and runs out of the church.

Officers drag Jean Valjean into the church, throwing him down on the floor.  Accusing him of stealing silver from the church, they hand the bag of loot to the priest: "He had the nerve to say you gave him this."  The priest smiles down on the kneeling Valjean, who did, indeed, steal the silver (see Scene # CV06222): ♪ "That is right.  But, my friend, you left so early, surely something slipped your mind." ♪  Everyone in the room, Valjean included, watches with open mouths as the priest walks to the table and picks up two silver candlesticks: ♪ "You forgot I gave these also.  Would you leave the best behind?" ♪  The priest hands the candlesticks to Valjean, ordering the officers to release him.  Valjean sits, stunned, as the officers release him from his chains.  The priest turns to Valjean, kneeling to look him in the eye: ♪ "But remember this, my brother.  See in this some higher plan.  You must use this precious silver to become an honest man.  By the witness of the martyrs, by the passion and the blood, God has raised you out of darkness.  I have saved your soul for God." ♪  The priest lifts Valjean to his feet, puts his hand on the man's head, and blesses him.

Staring at the papers condemning him as a convicted criminal, Jean Valjean sits near a statue of Christ on the cross, wrestling with the mercy just shown him by a compassionate priest (see Scene # CV06223).  He kneels before the altar, confessing to God his sin: ♪ "What have I done?  Sweet Jesus, what have I done?  Become a thief in the night.  Become a dog on the run.  Have I fallen so far, and is the hour so late, that nothing remains but the cry of my hate?" ♪  He stands, still wanting to hold onto the anger at his jailers for two decades spent paying for the theft of a loaf of bread.  Suddenly, his anger fades as he remembers the mercy of the priest who forgave his much greater theft: ♪ "Yet why did I allow this man to touch my soul and teach me love?  He treated me like any other.  He gave me his trust and called me brother.  My life he claims for God above.  Can such things be?  For I had come to hate the world, this world that always hated me!" ♪  Valjean remembers his anger, not wanting to forgive, and turns away from the altar: ♪ "Take an eye for an eye!  Turn your heart into stone!  This is all I have lived for!  This is all I have known!" ♪  Valjean begins walking quickly away, afraid to live without his hate.  He stops, putting his head in his hands and crying.  He remembers how the priest could have sent him to prison, but gave him freedom instead: ♪ "I feel my shame inside me like a knife." ♪  Valjean walks back to the altar, sobbing: ♪ "He told me that I had a soul.  How does he know?  What spirit comes to move my life?" ♪  Valjean drops to his knees, asking God: ♪ "Is there another way to go?" ♪  Tears stream down Valjean's face as he acknowledges his desperate need for salvation: ♪ "As I stare into the void, to the whirlpool of my sin, I'll escape now from that world.  From the world of Jean Valjean." ♪  He begins to tear up the papers identifying him as criminal, shouting: "Jean Valjean is nothing now!  Another story must begin!" ♪  He runs outside the church, throwing the bits of paper into the air, where they are taken up by the wind and carried towards the sun.

Cholera has struck the city of Paris, and the poor are dying en masse.  Inspector Javert rides through crowds of helpless poor, turning a cold eye to their suffering.  A cripple limps down a dark alley.  A sobbing mother hands the shrouded body of her dead baby to an undertaker, who carries away a wagon full of similarly-shrouded bodies.  Hundreds of the poor, their faces disfigured by disease and starvation, are gathered at a gate, begging for help and receiving none.  They cry out to be heard, to be helped: ♪ "At the end of the day, you're another day older.  And that's all you can say for the life of the poor.  It's a struggle.  It's a war.  And there's nothing that anyone's giving.  One more day standing about, what is it for?  One day less to be living.  At the end of the day, you're another day colder.  And the shirt on your back doesn't keep out the chill.  And the righteous hurry past.  They don't hear the little ones crying.  And the plague is coming on fast, ready to kill." ♪

Desperate for money to save her starving child, Fantine has just given her body to a man for money.  Brokenhearted, she mourns the loss of her dreams.  ♪  "I dreamed a dream in time gone by, when hope was high and life worth living.  I dreamed that love would never die.  I dreamed that God would be forgiving." ♪  Fantine weeps, feeling now that her dreams are lost, her life over: ♪ "But the tigers come at night.  With their voices soft as thunder.  As they tear your hope apart.  As they turn your dream to shame." ♪  The full realization of what she's just done hits Fantine, and she sobs, covering her face with her hands.  She remembers back to the happiest time of her life, her first love, who later abandoned her with a child.  Even that abandonment didn't kill Fantine's dreams like her shame has: ♪ "But there are dreams that cannot be.  And there are storms we cannot weather.  I had a dream my life would be...so different from this hell I'm living.  Now life has killed the dream." ♪

Jean Valjean has spent years eluding his parole officer, Inspector Javert.  Now, Javert has just revealed that another man has been imprisoned as Jean Valjean, and Valjean sighs in relief.  Valjean, imagining a life without running: ♪ "This stranger that they found could be my second chance.  Why should I save his hide?  Why should I right this wrong?  When I have come so far and struggled for so long." ♪  Valjean voices aloud the choice before him: ♪ "If I speak, I am condemned.  If I stay silent, I am damned." ♪  Valjean tries to rationalize the lie, reminding himself of all the people whose livelihoods depend on him.  But he cannot escape the fact that his lie is a sin against God.  He kneels to pray in front of a small cross, singing: ♪ "Who am I?  Can I condemn this man to slavery?  Pretend I do not feel his agony?  This innocent who bears my face, who goes to judgment in my place?  Must I lie?  How can I ever face my fellow men?  How can I ever face myself again?  My soul belongs to God, I know.  I made that bargain long ago.  He gave me hope when hope was gone.  He gave me strength to journey on!" ♪  Remembering God's salvation, Valjean is decided.  He begins to organize his personal effects, ready to admit his identity: ♪ "Who am I?  Who am I?  I'm Jean Valjean." ♪  Racing to the courthouse, he interrupts his look-alike's trial.  Standing before the judge, Valjean confesses: ♪ "And so, Your Honor, you see it's true.  This man bears no more guilt than you.  Who am I?  24601 (his prisoner number)!" ♪

Little Cosette is sweeping the inn, her face dirty and her clothes ragged and torn.  She looks outside, where other children are laughing and playing with their families.  She begins to sing of a better place: ♪ "There is a castle on a cloud.  I like to go there in my sleep.  Aren't any floors for me to sweep, not in my castle on a cloud.  There is a lady all in white, holds me and sings a lullaby.  She's nice to see and she's soft to touch.  She says, 'Cosette, I love you very much.'  I know a place where no one's lost.  I know a place where no one cries.  Crying at all is not allowed, not in my castle on a cloud." ♪

Jean Valjean, in adopting Cosette, has become an instant father.  As she lays her little head on his lap to sleep, he marvels at the love he already has for her.  He strokes her hair, looking down at her sleeping face, singing: ♪ "Suddenly the world seems a different place.  Somehow full of grace, full of light.  How was I to know that so much hope was held inside me?  How was I to know at last, that happiness can come so fast?  Trusting me the way you do.  I'm so afraid of failing you." ♪  Valjean longs to protect Cosette from the dangers of the world.  He takes her hand: ♪ "Nevermore alone.  Nevermore apart.  You have warmed my heart like the sun.  You have brought the gift of life and love so long denied me.  Suddenly I see, what I could not see.  Something suddenly has begun." ♪

After saving the rebels from a hidden sniper, Jean Valjean is granted control over the prisoner Javert: ♪ "Do what you have to do.  The man belongs to you." ♪  Valjean takes a gun, hinting that he will execute the inspector who has hunted him for years.  Taking Javert into a back room, he cuts him free from his bondage.  He tells Javert to run away.  Javert, instead of feeling grateful, immediately suspects a hidden motive behind the former criminal's merciful action.  He warns Valjean that even if he lets him go, he will never stop hunting him down.  Valjean: ♪ "You are wrong.  And always have been wrong.  I'm a man, no worse than any man.  And you are free, and there are no conditions.  No bargains or petitions.  There's nothing that I blame you for.  You've done your duty, nothing more." ♪  Valjean gives Javert his address so the inspector can arrest him if he lives through the battle.  Javert, confused and still doubtful, stumbles away.

When Enjolras returns from his scouting expedition, Marius informs him that they are almost out of gunpowder.  Enjolras has even more dire news for the small band of rebels.  They are the only remaining survivors of the rebellion.  All others have been killed and the rest of Paris still sleeps in their beds.  Enjolras gives the men the option to leave: ♪ "We are abandoned by those who still live in fear.  Let us not waste lives.  Let all who wish to, go from here." ♪  The men stand silently, digesting the news.  Suddenly, the child Gavroche begins to sing the anthem of the rebellion: ♪ "Do you hear the people sing?  Singing the song of angry men?  It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again.  When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes." ♪  The other men join in the song, ready now to die for their cause.  While the men discuss the ammunition problem, Gavroche sneaks through the barricade to secure gunpowder, betting on his youth that the enemy won't want to fire.  He loses the bet.  The enemy soldiers gun him down, but his blood serves as fuel on the fire of the rebels' fervor.  When a French officer offers them their freedom if they will give up the fight, the men refuse: ♪ "Let us die facing our foes.  Let others rise to take our place, until the Earth is free!" ♪  (Caution: b-word used as profanity)

Inspector Javert is walking through the scene of a recent battle.  Stepping through puddles of blood, he stares at the bodies of men lying everywhere.  He walks into a room where the bodies of rebels have been placed in a straight line.  Kneeling down at the body of a young boy, he swallows hard, fighting against tears.  Taking a medal off his own chest, he places it on the child, knowing the child had fought bravely.

Inspector Javert, torn between his duty to the law and the debt of mercy owed to Valjean, chose to allow Valjean to escape.  Now, his pride wounded, he finds himself questioning the values he's held his whole life.  He slowly climbs to the top of the dam, wrestling with why Valjean would choose to free him: ♪ "Vengeance was his, and he gave me back my life!" ♪  Javert cannot understand mercy shown toward himself because he has never shown mercy to anyone else: ♪ "D----d if I live in the debt of a thief!  D----d if I yield at the end of the chase!  I am the law and the law is not mocked!  I'll spit his pity right back in his face!" ♪  Javert looks down far below at the rushing water, wondering if his concept of a vengeful, merciless God has been wrong.  If the criminal Valjean is really right in the sight of God and the dutiful officer of the law, Javert, is not: ♪ "And my thoughts fly apart.  Can this man be believed?  Shall his sins be forgiven?  Shall his crimes be reprieved?  And must I now begin to doubt?  Who never doubted all these years.  My heart is stone and still it trembles.  The world I have known is lost in shadow.  Is he from heaven or from hell?  And does he know?  That granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so?" ♪  Javert throws himself off the dam and into the water below.

Jean Valjean is dying.  Having said goodbye to his beloved daughter, Cosette, he welcomes death and longs to be with God.  Fantine's spirit arrives to comfort Valjean in his final suffering: ♪ "Come with me, where chains will never bind you." ♪  Valjean, groaning: "I am ready, Fantine."  Fantine: ♪ "All your grief, at last, at last behind you." ♪  Fantine looks up, begging God to end Valjean's suffering: ♪ "Lord in heaven, look down on him in mercy." ♪  Valjean adds his own prayer: ♪ "Forgive me all my trespasses and take me to Your glory." ♪  Valjean dies, but his spirit continues on with Fantine, who sings: ♪ "Take my hand, I'll lead you to salvation.  Take my love, for love is everlasting." ♪  Valjean, leaving his body behind, walks toward a room filled with candles, where the priest who led him to the Lord is waiting joyfully.  Valjean: ♪ "And remember the truth that once was spoken, to love another person is to see the face of God." ♪  Suddenly, voices of the dead can be heard in joyful song: ♪ "Do you hear the people sing, lost in the valley of the night?  It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light.  For the wretched of the Earth, there is a flame that never dies.  Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.  We will live again in freedom in the garden of the Lord.  We will walk behind the plowshare.  We will put away the sword.  The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward!" ♪

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