About Lad Allen

Lad Allen is co-founder of Illustra Media, a motion picture production ministry based in Southern California. He has produced, written, and directed more than 100 films and received several international awards. Illustra documentaries UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY OF LIFE, THE PRIVILEGED PLANES and DARWIN'S DILEMMA have helped popularize the scientific case for intelligent design. These films have been translated into more than 20 languages and distributed throughout the world. Lad has also headed production on a series of documentaries based upon Lee Strobel's best selling books THE CASE FOR CHRIST, THE CASE FOR FAITH and THE CASE FOR A CREATOR. His other productions have included ORIGIN and THE DESIGN OF LIFE COLLECTION—a documentary trilogy that explores evidence for design and purpose in the animal kingdom. METAMORPHOSIS, FLIGHT and LIVING WATERS are currently in worldwide distribution. Lad was previously director of film production at Campus Crusade for Christ and Moody Institute of Science. He lives in southern California and has enjoyed an extraordinary 47-year marriage to his wife, Joni (the most patient, understanding woman in the universe). They have been blessed with four adult sons.

THE GENIUS OF FLIGHT

The Genius of Flight Have you ever found yourself in a conversation with someone who insisted that life on Earth was the product of nothing more than a blind, random, undirected process? And that purpose and design played absolutely no role in the creation of hippos, hawks, and human

FIND THE WAY HOME

Find the Way Home Over the years, Jerry Harned and I have been blessed to explore the details of some incredible animal life cycles. In the process, we’ve photographed and studied biological attributes and behaviors that have often made me step back, shake my head in amazement, and exclaim

THE TAIL OF A KITE

The Tail of a Kite People sometimes ask me where we get our ideas for the films we produce.  My initial answer is, “Almost anywhere.” During the past 45 years I’ve been inspired by magazine and Internet articles, conversations with friends, emails from folks I’ve never met, places I’ve

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