Cabrini Livestream: Meet the Team Behind the Film with Neal Harmon

foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] dear reader New York is built upon the Dead and I think to myself [Music] Skies of blue [Music] the dark safe at night and I think to myself if I made you the first woman ever to lead an overseas Mission the whole world would look to you as proof of what woman can or cannot accomplish if we are to build an Empire of hope my sisters it seems we must first Conquer New York welcome to America so you let a woman push you around an Italian woman is that how you run your church you ought to leave New York and never return what the hell do you think you are [Music] I am a woman and I am Italian and we are all human beings we are all the same it's a shame that you're a woman mother you would have made an excellent man no men could never do what we do I see trees dear reader New York is built upon the Dead foreign [Music] [Music] the brightness of days and I think to myself if I made you the first woman never to lead an overseas Mission the whole world would look to you as proof of what woman can or cannot accomplish if we are to build an Empire of hope my sisters it seems we must first Conquer New York welcome to America so you let a woman push you around an Italian woman is that how you run your church you are to leave New York and never return hell do you think you are [Music] I am a woman and I am Italian and we are all human beings we are all the same it's a shame that you're a woman mother you would have made an excellent man could never do what we do hello and welcome I'm your host Neil Harmon and we would like to share with you my 17 year old daughter's favorite movie now it's called Cabrini and this is a new and upcoming Angel Studios project and we're going to have a very important live stream for you here this afternoon going over who Cabrini is who the people are who are involved what the story's about how you can help and we have some very special guests with us Alejandro Monteverde the director of Cabrini and many of you have been to see the movie sound of freedom Alejandro is the director also of sound of freedom we also have executive producer Eustis wolfington and now a mentor of Angel Studios Eustis is the inventor of the car lease and an entrepreneur well known in in his community and in the car world and uh Cabrini is a it was an inspiration to him so we're going to be excited to to have him here today and we might even bring out another special guest we only have three seats here but we might just let you meet somebody else you've never met before as well so welcome gentlemen thank you Neil thank you for having us here you're welcome and uh thank you for being here thanks for coming all the way to the angel Studios headquarters that's particularly uh given how busy you are with the sound of Freedom release in Eustace with all you've got going between business and family that's a big big commitment to comment well thank you thank you yes it was worth it it's worth it um all right so it's great to have you with us today um while we have these special guests here today we want to take the opportunity as an angel Community to ask them things that are important to us if you have a question that comes up to you about caprini or about Alejandro or Eustis just put it in the comments and we're gonna have a chance later on to answer some of those questions so make sure you do that and I should mention before we begin that we want to invite our audience to support Cabrini by paying it forward this is a way that people who couldn't normally afford or wouldn't normally go to the theater to go to the theater and this is an important thing for me personally because our family growing up didn't have the means to go to the theater and I remember the very first time that I went to the theater I I got to go to the Dollar Theater which had poor sound and not as good of a picture and your feet would stick to the floor because they it wasn't cleaned as well but when I went there I didn't know any different and it was the most magical experience for me to see Lion King on the big screen at the dollar theater and um and recently when we were watching sound of freedom in Burley Idaho the pay it forwards made it so that the community the Latino Community they could all come and see the show for free and I got really emotional because I realized this were we as a community are doing something that would have made it possible for me to see a movie and in the full priced theater right so it's uh so exciting and you can do that at any time you can go to angel.com Cabrini to follow the project to get updates to pay it forward and uh we're just so excited to have you here so let's get started Alejandro with with you tell us about who Cabrini was or is well in order for me to say that first I have to talk about Eustis you know Cabrini her life shine a light in a very dark world you know in very dark times and I was honored to be part of a film that shines on light in her life and I was embarrassed because I didn't know who she was this is a woman that had a tremendous impact in the world tremendous I mean her impact goes beyond any other character historic character that has half an impact in the world so I met her thanks to you by the way I'm with you I did not know the name Cabrini until I met the two of you and learned about what you've done and thanks to Eustis he's the one that because it's all about us human beings is to create a ripple effect with our lives you know we throw the little Pebble and it's the most important thing is who throws a pebble and then we become the waves and Eustis is the one that was in his heart and he's going to tell the story of how we end up here and it was in his heart and he knew that by shining a light on her life it was going to inspire and impact many many viewers because this film it's a film that you experience it's a film that and I hear this not for me just from the artists that I've seen they come in one person and they leave a different person and one of our goals when we make movies is to make movies that begin when the movie ends that leaves you in a state of reflection and makes you question about how more you can do for others and I'm so grateful to use this Justus is my mentor he he was in his heart and I would love to hear how he met mother Copernicus he introduced me to her I I did not know who she was and he introduced me to it let's hear let's hear about that Eustis for me well I'm about to say so when I met Mother Cabrini I had never heard of mother either um it was in 1955 I was 23 years old and I walked into this church and it's the first time I've ever came across Malik and uh I decided to learn about her as much as I could and once I started to understand her life I said wow what a lady I'm going to make her my role model she was a tremendous entrepreneur a great humanitarian and uh she was so well organized and so Dynamic she has such a great spirit and the amazing thing is which was very sickly all her life she was very sickly and yet the sickness seemed to Spur her on to even greater energy yeah but I had gone through all through uh my whole I was a Spanish College and I'd never heard that I had good education going through a lot of good schools and she was the first American Saint in America which may or may not mean anything to some people but it's a big deal and for me not to know the first American Saint was horrific so after that I would spend my time talking to people about her I'd find nobody no one else knew anything about her either I travel around the world and uh I talk to families I talked to Italian families and it just shocked me and no one knew this woman so we were determined to get her story out the story takes place back in 1889 it's a period film uh but the amazing thing is that the time she lived in then is very much like the time we live in now how so she was in Italy uh they're taking God out of the country God out of the schools became a very secular Nation and uh it was if you were any kind of a Christian you were kind of persecuted but that didn't that didn't bother Cabrini she would teach in a public school and she would be teaching catechism at a public school and uh the the uh so started talking about God in the public school system after that yeah and the authorities will come down on her and by the end of the day they were converted she was the only one in Italy teaching about God in the Catholic schools and the privacy in the public schools but that's just one little example how she started out uh what's amazing about Monica Rooney is she never quit no matter what she did she could overcome any obstacle and she had obstacles throwing at her from every direction she was one of 13 children she was the youngest of seven of them had died very early in life and their parents died when she was about 20. so she was kind of out on her own at 20 years of age high school education and uh and then the high school education was to learn to be a teacher she was a great teacher a great educator and what was marvelous about her when she came to America she said to the Italian immigrant and that's why she came here she came here to help restore dignity to the Italian Community which was very downtrodden and getting beat up they didn't have a voice I mean when I watched the film they were relegated to their own slums didn't have a voice and uh yeah and they couldn't speak English yeah so that carried over into the prisons they would arrest him and put them in prison then they would rot she had a tremendous prison ministry uh she hadn't set up probably most of the things you have today in Immigration helped keep in touch with your old country mother communicated all that uh so it's one thing it's once so this incredible story and we're we're reminded again as we've released sound of Freedom how divided Society is I mean because the big the big surprise to us about sound of freedom is it became extremely politicized and controversial and uh it's like people want to fight and uh Cabrini was she was providing healing to a society that wanted to fight and and essentially kick the Italian immigrants out of of society um you've got this great inspiration that you came across in 1955. you decided you're going to base your career on her as a mentor even though she had already passed away you were going to study her and and so now you're you know later on in your career you got you decide to make this movie tell me about your approach to building a team and the kind of people who are working on this project what what what's the team and this is for both of you you know you can both add to this this question the first part of it is I don't want to make this movie uh someone walked in my office 60 years after that day I first met Cabrini 60 years later yes you said to me will you help me do a movie in Mother Cabrini and Alejandro and I had met back around 2003 yeah and and we worked together on a film called Bella and then not knew that so she thought that I could help for six years I turned her down uh because a movie I said a movie's a lot of work I don't want to do a movie I just don't want to do a movie and she invited me up to meet in an Italian film company she said they're going to do the movie I said wonderful I looked at what they were going to do and I said you cannot do that the Cabrini they were going to make some fairy tale movie with someone handed out candy and patting people on the head uh this this woman was so so dynamic so she said okay then you have to do it so I called Leo Sabino who was the producer with Bello I said Leo you gotta help me get a writer I call Ted bear I said Ted do you have any writers so I introduced I interviewed probably four or five writers and uh Ryan sent me some Scripts I didn't know right at the time and uh I looked at some of the scripts I said wow so rod and I got together and we went to mother cabrini's hometown and we lived in her home with all the historians for 10 days we then meant 26 books on her life we then walked our footprints around America so when Ryan picked up the pen to write this script he knew mother could bring any better than anybody in the world and the and the beautiful thing about living in her in her in her home in Italy was that they told us things that we weren't any of the books uh there's one scene in a movie where mother could read busts into the Senate that's in all the newspapers but it wasn't in the books uh the same with New York there was that big article New York Times a lot of community uh the narrator reads or that they're reading actual the guy who wrote the article yeah yep and then of course uh I had heard that Alejandra was busy in that time I didn't I didn't know that you said is there anything I know about Alejandro is he throws himself completely into what he's doing and so well he didn't he didn't want to do a movie about and then yeah yeah until he read the script but he didn't make a movie about it not that's what Alejandra would say we agreed to this movie uh we told the people that had asked us to do it we'd only do it on two conditions number one that we could make a Gandhi kind of movie he was a Hindu thing in the way make a movie of a woman who just happened to be a nun and there would be no preaching no anything her life would be the sermon in this movie yes so so it'll be a universe Universal movie you know what I think with with that comment what we're going to do is we're gonna have Alejandro introduce a clip from the movie because this movie is a lot about experiencing rather than I I think the conversation will be um will be enhanced if we if you'll introduce this clip that we're going to show and then uh and then we'll continue the discussion yeah so one thing you know as a filmmaker I I truly believe we release it with our eyes and sound to complement what we see in and for me to tell the story of Mother Cabrini her live wasn't it wasn't a spectacle as in itself she she created an art piece with her life with everything she did with everything she accomplished and all the impact she had in in the world so for me it was very clear that this film needed to be like like an opera operatic expressive something that you experience and I became a student again you know even though I went to film school for six years and I already had shot three films and say for this film I want to go back and I want to figure out a way to capture her life in a magnificent way in a way that we can celebrate her life through the beauty of this cinematography the power of Cinema and I went back and most people may not be familiar with with this director his name is Andre tarkovsky is one of the Masters and he was able to figure out a way to create a dance between the lens and the characters that was seamless where you really don't even do much editing everything is so choreographed and so beautifully put together but what that creates it becomes a visual spectacle this thing we're going to see right now um I I for me the text is the easiest thing to do is very simple I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna do it right now okay let's say who am I no no just text right now I really like your jacket that's text thank you anyone can say that yes anybody now subtext how can I say that I really like your jacket without a worth how can I say why I like your jacket because maybe your jacket reminds me of my father then there's another level is deeper and then you go on and then it's the subtext where the gold is this scene that we're going to see the whole movie is like that it would took us many many months to craft everything on paper by the time we went to set we just went to execute this is not a movie that was captured like 99 of the films this film it was like I don't know if you've seen the documentary solo I mean the guy that the climate Capitan with no ropes yeah that's how we shot this film we had no ropes there was no room for mistakes everything was shot in a way that can only be edited one particular way and that's it and if it doesn't work it doesn't work when we talk to John Irwin um a friend of the studio he's working on the founders project um and uh his most recent release was Jesus Revolution he said to us when he saw the trailer he's like oh that film must have been a hundred million dollars to make yeah that you know I think what you're describing the reason the film is feels so so Grand is because you put that kind of attention to detail and tried to make those dollars go as far as possible and this scene that we're gonna see right now going back to the power of subtext you're going to see a scene Cabrini represents power which is powerful we all powerful but we don't know how to tap into that power she knew she was able to look into your face and speak directly transcend your mind and speak directly to your heart which is where the truth belongs and she was able to in a way be able to accomplish what she needs which it was for her was life or dead because if she didn't accomplish that millions of children will die this thing that we're going to see right now she was so powerful and I want to say this too because this is to the entire film but this is just a little taste she's so powerful and this is a complexity of how the movie it was shot that they're looking completely in different directions about the future about what they want to do in within their mission and there's a scene which if when she there's a scene where she fires him she says he tells her it's time for you to go back to New York you're fired pretty much pachito cannot tell her to her face one because the cat doesn't have the strength to look there into her face to fire her but two he goes and goes behind her and they're both looking at different directions that's the subjects how far from each other are they looking into what they think needs to be done with the people that have nothing with the poor and all that like the entire thing throughout the film every single shot in the film it's developed and and crafted to mean something more this is the kind of movie that you have to watch many many times because every time you watch it you're gonna understand all the hours and hours that we did on all the subjects so Alejandra is getting me excited to do the director's commentary for the Blu-ray edition of Cabrini later on I'm excited so and I can see that all of you will be excited as well so let's roll that clip and and uh and uh thank you so much for giving us that subtext oh I warned you but you were blinded by ambition naked ambition you chose to disobey me and now your actions have become the problem of the Archdiocese and the souls under my care you have left me no choice but to inform you that your institutions are to be disbanded and you and your sisters that have returned to Italy I assure you that the Archdiocese will handle your Wards appropriately I mean my children your mission is over mother my mission has barely begun mother Community you asked me to destroy my houses and run back to Italy like a criminal you were arrested were you not this problem will be with us in a hundred years and there is no point working yourself to death trying to change it some things never change forgive me if I don't have the strength to think like you despite that the Italians have survived without you and somehow they will continue to do so you are to leave New York and never return this is an order of obedience [Music] Eustis help for those of us who aren't members of the Catholic Church to understand what an order of obedience is of course the Catholic church has broken down on the diocese yep there's a bishop in charge of every diocese yep and if that Bishop gives anyone an order of obedience they have to abide it the motherboards that they do before they become an honorable priest yeah you bow you renounce you know for priests they make bows of poverty they cannot own anything yes so they also make a bow of obedience okay so this was a big deal oh yeah it's a big deal the mother could bring all her life knew how to work around that she always dodged that bullet and at this time and the only one that can reverse it yeah she didn't see it coming or she would have touched oh and I'm so excited so like I said my 17 year old daughter she this is her now her favorite movie whenever we talk about this movie at the dinner table she lights up she's just oh I love Cabrini I love Cabrini in fact I was saying to you earlier that Cabrini is not a motion picture it's more like a motion painting yeah that's that those were the words that came to my mind um and uh that's really evident here it's it's pretty hard to even describe for me but I I wish I I wish my daughter could be here and you could if you saw the light in her eyes as she just the sparks in her eyes as she talks about this movie um I feel like we got a little taste of that here yeah and the beauty of it and the entire film it it was captured and shot like that we would spend so much time we made this the every location a character every location every camera movement everything means something now it will be very potential for me to try to you know make you to understand everything but you actually do if I will have to ask you in any part of the films what you felt is you don't you don't have to put it into the right words but there is a feeling that we've been getting from the audience that they always constantly said I watched the movie but they just felt like a complete different experience than a normal film and that was all choreographed yes from from from the beginning the lighting was very important was another character in the film because she was fighting darkness and her presence her life was the light so everywhere she was there is always the chief of flight piercing concentrate the darkness even when I don't want to give the movie away but when she finds one of the child because a lot of children were dying on the streets and she finds one of the child's dead on the street and she grafts it and it was very important that there was a shift of flight even on this mids of a dark moment of she holding a dead child but the light going through that you know because it's on the sewage the light going through her it just I remember saying do we call that La pieta you know La pieta by Michelangelo yes and we choreographed it and she to be exactly yeah like like pieta you know with the body falling everything it was like built like that and every shot was built to be that way but now I'm going to switch it to you like you don't have to believe I don't want to put you on the spot yeah but for you when you see the film what what is it that feels like what's your experience when you watch the film in terms of the cinematography and the list the The Cinematic language that was used to tell her story um I'm gonna answer this and then we're going to turn over to some questions for the for the audience um I felt and I'm gonna have a hard time putting in this into words but I can sometimes be near a person and when I'm near that person I'm uh I can sense that they you know are smart or that they're really bright or and they know they are and then by other people who are really smart and bright I I hate to put you on the spot Eustis but when I'm near them like you I feel closer to God and I think more about being like him of trying to be better trying to reach for hire and when I watch Ed Cabrini I had this experience that I was done of just feeling like I want I want to I want to do better with what I've got with what I've received in my life I want to be better I Want to Love More um and it's to me I just described that feeling of being lifted towards God and I'm a very like I'm a very visual person and so it wasn't lost on me all the imagery but for me I I didn't study it I did I just took it in and fulfelt it all and the more we began when you left the theater yes it was it was something spectacular for me and I I one of my last night there was a group that didn't get to do the original screening that went to watch it and I was just desperate to go see it again but I needed to go home and take care of my kids because my wife had a commitment but I just wanted to just see and feel that feeling again so anyway um and that's the feeling when they come out after the movie they don't just say it was a great movie you can actually feel what you just described you can feel like a transformation took place like everyone into their eyes and there's they say words like I'm speechless yes they say words like I'm Blown Away uh so that and that's pretty much is universal yes anyone who sees this film or I can't wait to see it again they finish and they're like I can't wait to see it and we're actually going to get a chance for the to share some of those experiences we we have a clip prepared of experiences people have had as they've left we want to give this audience a chance to ask questions um again you can go to angel.com Cabrini to support this film to pay it forward do we have questions available from the audience will this be available in espanol muchas gracias Hermanas Mexico in fact Angel Studios you'll see has made it a concertive effort to support all uh English Spanish and Portuguese of all of our projects right now Tuttle twins um Wing feather they're all coming in in those languages we want projects to get big enough that that they reach the whole world and Cabrini is going to be one of those projects that is going to reach the world it's going to be in lots of languages but espanol porciato okay another question Alejandro the acting seems very good and you were able to get well-known actors how is your team able to do this this uh well first it's all about this script the script uh rod maybe it's a good time to bring yeah Rod did an incredible job in fact here Rod you take my seat for a second yeah yeah well uh well I'll just move my devices sure here you go so this is Rod bar I call him Rodrigo so but his name is rodbar but uh the question is how do we uh uh get get good talent good actors and good team and it all starts with two things first anyone can shoot a movie very few people can shoot the vision of a film so there was a vision very sad about how we wanted to tell the story on Cabrini but the vision comes from a very solid and really really good screenplay and Rod did an incredible job so when we cut when we hired our casting director at one point you cannot explain to the actor's vision of the movie until they read the script so the script is the blueprint is the first step to get us into access to all of these actors so uh the the first step the key to open the door is a a really good solid screenplay and I just have to say one thing you know when Eustis called me about doing this movie I uh besides being busy I also knew that this movie was not for me you know that you want to make a laugh tell him your plans so I already had said I'm not doing this movie but used to see you know my mentor and I'll do anything for him so I was like okay I'm going to read it for useless if we wouldn't be used to so I will pass it without reading without reading it for a fact so I read the script by page 10 I think it was less than 10. there's one line that I want to share because it's continues to speak to me daily spoiler alert it well it's it said you can serve your weakness or you can serve your purpose and every human being that is breathing today has both as a weakness and has a purpose all of us and he spoke directly to me and right there he grabbed me and I knew I was like I I think I'm going to be doing this movie so just like he graphed me the script that's how he graphed all these different actors uh and talent then I can take the answer from here because the next step is that they have to talk to the director and that's where Alejandro really really really shines because Alejandro has a very very special ability to take what's on the page which he also helped work on quite a bit um which by the way uh both of you these guys were the writers for sound of freedom for all of the sound of Freedom fans out there yeah yeah so it's kind of pretty much the same team yep pretty much the same team um but the next step in terms of getting an actor or Talent is that they have to read the script and then they have to meet this guy and um his ability to paint a vision to describe what the spirit of the movie is to describe how he intends to raise the level raise the level of Excellence higher higher higher higher uh it's infectious it's powerful and the most amazing thing is he actually does what he says he's going to do at the level that he says he's going to do it that doesn't that doesn't happen that often really it doesn't if I can interject we we the reason these gentlemen are here with us is because we had a multi-day script writing session message crafting discussion around marketing this film and we got done with two days of script writing multiple versions of at least four or five writers writing stuff going back and forth and and and going to war for getting this messaging right and when we're done I remember you said at the end of our session today you're like guys I think what we've done so far may be about a c plus he's like we've got to go higher anyway I think we answered the question that's how the process of getting an actor and and the talent and it it really is about the director in the movie business it's it's it does start with the script but the director has to assemble that team and Alejandro is is a master assembler of teams and an inspirer of teams and then oh sorry now I have another question let's have you stay for the for the this will be our third and final question for this live stream but let's head rods today has the movie been seen by Mother Cabrini yes order if yes yes what did they think and it was the most beautiful stunning relation but that was the biggest reward we had they all what they all watched it in some of the nuns are in their 90s and been with the order around the world all their life and they all said that's Community that's community and they and they broke out crime and uh they loved it yeah and and then that that for Creative people who who respect Mother Cabrini but also want to make an amazing movie that's our first objective it was probably the greatest compliment because for for the women who lived it understand who she was understand her spirit they said you captured who she that's who she was that's always who I knew she was and that's that that's wonderful because she was quite something she was Dynamic she was powerful she was empowered and she was a disrupter um and can't wait to share it with the world you know it's really interesting because this movie was very difficult to shoot we have every single shooting Kobe we didn't have the ropes you know like solo if we had one day one mistake we will be finished it was Miracle after Miracle after miracle but there were some days that her life gave me the strength to keep going because she never gave up but then when the movie finished which is really interesting I had such a powerful determination throughout the shoot when the movie wrapped and it was the last day and everybody went home it was very interesting because I got myself feel feel with fear and I was like where did I get the strength and the boldness to make those decisions because again no ropes we were shooting with no I don't want to bore you with all the complexities and the difficulties and Logistics of how it is to shoot a movie with no coverage that then I got really really scared and then I started really going into a spiritual journey to try to get that strength that I had when I was shooting the movie and it was that determination of Cabrini to not give up and to keep pushing to keep going to keep I said to keep growing and um that's what this film has it it really really you know it inspires you keep going and to use pain not as something that brings you down but something that makes you stronger she knew pain very well and she lived in a world where suffering was all around it and she used that suffering and that pain to give her strength to in order to to help them and and that was beautiful can I pull a phrase um can I get um can I share a phrase It's from the movie it's empire of Hope I don't know whether that was coined by you or if it came from Cabrini but I feel like it does represent yeah it was her life what's that Callaway what's the uh the book yeah where you seen the movie yep it's in the movie so um I feel like this is um such a beautiful phrase for Cabrini of what we feel after we after we experience this film and this is the reason that we would invite everyone who can who has the means to give those who wouldn't otherwise be able to see this film the chance to see it in the theaters with sound of Freedom there have been times when we've been giving away two free tickets per second and when I think about the magnitude like 80 000 tickets in the day my the town where I grew up had like 10 000 people so that's like 10 small town Idaho communities being able to go and experience this film and have this experience that raises everyone's lives and raises our sights to to something higher to something better to Healing to boldness and um when people start talking about this film it's going to change from being some Curiosity on who was Mother Cabrini to I must see this film just because you'll see see people's reactions and we'd ask for you those of you who believe in mother cabrini's story to pay it forward now and start building momentum for this Empire of Hope and um and we we got so Eustis and Alejandro and Rod they've been sharing this film with many audiences in fact Alejandro shared with me a New York audience that was the most eclectic Melting Pot you'd ever possibly imagine colors clothing to the point Alejandro that that fear came back to you where you're like this is gonna fall flat and the audience absolutely loved it and uh and so we're going to share with you some of those reactions we didn't get the New York ones on film but we've got some on film we're going to share those to close and then ask you again to help help build this Empire of hope this is an important film that where we are shooting to release in March of 2024 and we couldn't be more excited to partner with all of you to build the Empire of Hope thank you angel.com Cabrini I was in tears within the first 90 seconds of this film it touched me deeply it made me think of my grandparents what they had to endure in this country it made me appreciate who we became who we are today and how we have to remember not only Mother Cabrini and the work that she did but also the work that all Italians and all immigrants did to contribute to the development of this great country extremely poignant and has certainly a universal appeal myself the son of immigrants who came to this country in 1913 and 1918 being first generation that can understand the struggles that were met and the struggles that are brought forth by Mother Cabrini for all ethnicity with the Irish the German all the Eastern European countries that immigrants that came over here and what's happening today from South America Etc so looking at building that strength in faith I think is one of the things that really stands on it was poignant from the strong opening to a very strong closing with a beautiful message for All America for all our citizen America and all those new are going to be citizens in the future thank you well I come from the Five Points area and I remember you you spoke to any Italian-American grandmother while I was growing up Mother Cabrini was the first person on their mind she was so well loved on the Lower East Side where she began a Ministry to the world uh on a street where I lived that so the other thing about this film is that I think it's a milestone in terms of setting the record straight but Italian Americans and about the Lower East Side so I appreciate the opportunity to have said this can't say enough about this movie it was not only a very heartwarming but it was also sad and joyful at the same time the strength and commitment of this nun Mother Frances Cabrini is legendary but to see it on the Silver Screen and to see all that she accomplished the perseverance through his struggles and then the achievements that she made um just wonderful inspiring I hope everybody goes to see it thank you thank you this was a powerful movie it reminded us all of mother cabrini's message that we came here on different ships but now we're in the same boat we are our brother's keeper and we are here to make this a better place for all and it reminded us of the struggles of our Italian American ancestors and that we should never forget it I found this film was possibly no not possibly is the most beautiful movie I've ever seen visually spiritually emotionally I would recommend this movie to everyone my heart is throbbing I'm in so much pain to see how much my Italian Americans suffer when they came to America but Mother Cabrini reminded me of my mother the strength the leadership the know-how and I want this movie to be left alone just the length that it is do not touch it I want everyone to watch this movie everyone will see it was two and a half hours I think I didn't even feel how long it was I couldn't watch for another two three hours just to learn about Mother Cabrini she's amazed she's a leader it has to be left alone I love the person that put this movie together thank you to all of you that work so hard and again all the Italian Americans and everyone in the whole world must watch this movie and I will make sure it will happen thank you so much this movie was a celebration of faith and what one person can do to change the world I found it so meaningful to experience how her life was filled with purpose and I applaud the director and everyone involved with the movie and recommends that everyone see this to be uplifted and inspired thank you and this is the best just about the best movie you've ever seen uh I knew about Mother Cabrini growing up because my parents were Italian immigrants and they told me about her but I had never realized how much she contributed and how wonderful and Noble a person she was viewing the film many memories of my parents that my parents told me about of their growing of their Coming to America and living here and suffering many of the things that she suffered so it tugged up my heart this is a wonderful film it is a testament to the human Spirit the Italian Spirit but to the human spirit for everyone thank you so much deeply deeply moved by the movie it was such a beautiful story and message so beautifully executed and I don't know how anybody could come out of this movie without a heart pounding and pulsing it's just a it's an experience and it's it's worth every second of it and I just loved it it's a remarkable achievement well you know for me it's more than just a moving story it's actually personal because I grew up in a Cabrini orphanage here in New York and the first six years of my life was in an orphanage and I was cared for by the nuns and you don't forget that it's a it's a life-altering experience and so for me the story has more than just an amusing plot it's it's really a story of my Early Childhood so this is a very special movie for me film celebrates the beautiful goodness of the human spirit mother cabrini's life is an inspiration to all of us it teaches us that anybody who was willing to work hard be dedicated and be motivated by love can make meaningful changes in the 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Channel: Angel Studios

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Length: 58min 15sec (3495 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 04 2023