Fabiola Pilot Set - 100% Funded!

Set construction has already begun!

Fabiola Equipment and Costumes - 100% Funded!

Costumes and equipment have been completely funded. The Pilot contains three characters and the cost of the costumes have been covered.

Next To Be Funded: FABIOLA Actor Accommodations

The remaining production funds will go to actor accommodations. This will cover airlines, lodging, food and more for our three talented actors!

GOAL: Our main objective with the FABIOLA Pilot is to impress our audience with the quality of our line delivery, acting, sets, costumes and cinematography.

We would like to lay the foundation of the storyline to get people to believe in the story in order to fund the entire project. We hope to submit the pilot to Angel Studios for full funding by early fall this year. One way or another this pilot will be used to fully fund the movie FABIOLA.

APPEAL: FABIOLA is set apart from other films like it because it tells the story through characters as in depth as those conceived by Austen and Dickens but with as much excitement as seen in modern drama films. It's a study of human nature as well as a history of early Church martyrs and we have put much work into researching the FABIOLA characters.

PREVIOUS WORK: FABIOLA comes from the creators of Outlaws of Ravenhurst and three other films, most recently Pelayo. With this being our 5th project, we really feel like it is time to step it up a notch and pursue full funding. Having a full budget will be a new and exciting adventure for Industrious Family Films!

TALENT: FABIOLA's crew has created several film projects and the cast will be returning talent from past films with the addition of a few new comers. Several of these new-comers have graced the screen in productions from other studios including Versa L'Alto Productions and Stampede Cinema. The whole pilot cast will be comprised of young adults whom we are personally coaching to bring you the best acting possible.

CROWDFUNDING: All of our past films have been dependent on our audience's support. For this pilot, we see some funds coming from our audience but mostly from large donors.

Let's Get The Fabiola Pilot Produced Soon And Sent Off To Angel Studios To Get Funding For The Whole Project

The movie pilot can be as short as 8 minutes or as long as half an hour. We have prepared a script for a scene and are ready to pour all we have into it.

Sets, costumes, high-quality acting - everything we can do to make it as cinematic as possible has been planned out.

We came up with a budget for this 1 scene that costs as much as the whole Grisly Grisell production!

This kind of budget will give us the room to pull off the quality that we want to demand in the final project.

We Raised $2,745 In Round 1 : January - July 2023
We Raised $4,815 In Round 2 : October - November 2023
We Raised $2,800 In Round 3: February 

$10,360 Total Raised

Funds To Date Have Been Used For The Following: 

All The Great Things You're Going To Love Seeing In The Film Fabiola

Fabiola is a mixture of a many beloved films. It is overall heavily influenced by the timeless 1950's film, Ben-Hur.

The drama from PureFlix's Samson
The influence of Paul, Apostle of Christ 
The camaraderie of the Lord of the Rings
The politics of The Fall of the Roman Empire
The sentiment of Gladiator

In this story, martyrs shed their blood for the prosperity of the Church and for the conversion of sinners. Their examples are outstanding and though they do not know it, the conversion of the proud Fabiola will someday be the fruit of their sacrifice.

How Christianity Emerged From The Ashes Of The Fall Of The Roman Empire

St. Agnes plays a very important role in the film. She is Fabiola's cousin and leads her to the Faith gently through her constant example of womanly virtue. She brings Fabiola closer and closer until Fabiola is startled to receive news of her arrest on the charge of Christianity.

She goes to visit Agnes in her cell and it is there that Agnes openly speaks to her for the first time about her Faith. Their conversation closes when Agnes presses Fabiola to continue to study and accept the truths of Christianity. It's the moment Fabiola has been led up to her entire life and it's a perfect way to give a teaser of the film as our Pilot. 

Also in this scene, the audience will see Fulvius, the antagonist who betrayed Agnes when she refused to marry him. Although he harbors no love in his heart for her, Fulvius needs her inheritance to continue to pursue his evil path. But his hopes are dashed when not even imprisonment and the threat of death are enough to shake Agnes' refusal to break her vow of virginity. 

Cardinal Wiseman was born in Spain in 1802 to Irish emigrants. After his ordination to the priesthood, he would become the president of the English College in Rome. Cardinal Wiseman also became the first Archbishop of Westminster after the Protestant Revolt.

In 1835, he went to England to deliver a course of lectures in London on the teachings of the Catholic Church. His lectures were attended by Protestants and Catholics alike. Dr. Wiseman made such a deep impression on his non-Catholic hearers that a number of well educated persons whose social position was high were converted to the Faith.

In 1853, Wiseman began to write his most popular book, the historical drama, Fabiola, The Church of the Catacombs. The book was published the following year and its success was immediate and phenomenal. Wiseman wrote Fabiola in part as an answer to the vigorously anti-Catholic book which praised the early pagan era. Fabiola was also intended as a historical and religious aid to Catholics in England.

We feel like the world needs this story for all these reasons still today and that is why we cannot wait to bring this story to life through the modern storytelling medium of film! And with your help, we know we can.

Cardinal Wiseman's  biography taken from The Story Of The Church.