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Mar 18, 2024

Something New Is Brewing...Check Out Our Podcast - Gofers Get A Grip

Industrious Family expands again! Join "the boys", Michael, Becket, Patrick and Declan Bowen once a week for a 10 minute entertaining commentary on all things new, fun and interesting! Gofers Get A Grip podcast launches new episodes every Monday at 6:40 a.m. PT.

Today's episode covers topics that range from St. Patrick to fixing 1974 Mustangs, tetanus, and set building! Plus! What is your favorite Golden Age of Hollywood film? We want to know!

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Mar 18, 2024

Please Join Us On May 2nd At 9:00 a.m. For A Rosary Followed By A FABIOLA Film Presentation

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Mar 17, 2024

Who Is St Patrick?

St. Patrick

Who is St Patrick, you ask? Here is a brief biography of this great saint’s life and ways of celebrating his legacy.

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Mar 15, 2024

This Week We Successfully Raised $247. Thank You To All Our Supporters!

This week we successfully raised $247. Thank you to all our supporters!

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Mar 15, 2024

Who Is The #FabiolaMovie Sweatshirt Winner?

For every $100 contribution the contributor's name was put in a hat to win a FABIOLA Sweatshirt. Watch to see who the winner is.

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Mar 15, 2024

Final Chance to Enter In The Sweatshirt Drawing!

Today is the day! As a special thank you to all of our big donors, we are entering them for a chance to win a FABIOLA sweatshirt for every $100 donated. At noon today we are going to be doing the drawing for the sweatshirt winner!

Have you been wanting to enter but never got a chance? Don't worry, you still have time. But you better hurry because the drawing happens at 12 noon PT today!

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Mar 14, 2024

Set Building Continues! Sheet Rocking And More Walls Have Been Installed In The FABIOLA Set

We've gotten the bulk of the sheetrock up and constructed Agnes' cell on the FABIOLA set! Mudding and taping the corners has begun and the windows have been cut to the size of the prison bars in Agnes' cell. Finishing taping the walls and texturing will be our next step to bringing this prison set to life. Stay tuned for more of our progress coming up!

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Mar 14, 2024

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Mar 14, 2024

Claim Your Chance To Help Crowdsource The Production Of A Movie That Will Be Catholic From Start To Finish

Society is in collapse, and we need your help elevating the arts! With your donation, we can begin filming our movie Fabiola and build projects that will give a wholesome alternative to Hollywood. Audiences want faith-literate films, and Roman Catholics should lead the way. Please contribute today.

This is a chance to help crowdsource the production of a movie that will be Catholic from start to finish. It starts with a script adapted from a classic Catholic novel, actors who embrace the Faith of all time, and is staffed by our family comprising the crew. The film will be suitable for families, and will send a message to other film producers that there is a market for this type of wholesome, clean entertainment.

The funds raised in this portion of the drive will go toward flying the Pilot actors to the set in June and help with accommodations. Money in previous rounds has gone toward building the Pilot set and costuming, among other things.

Thank you in advance for your contribution. On behalf of our family and the Fabiola cast, we would like to express gratitude for your support.

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Mar 13, 2024

The Team Hits The Set For Another Day In The Building Books

Day three of set building! Agnes' cell is now framed in and we have the entrance all set up for the arch we plan on putting in. The iron bars have also been laid out and a plan has been formed to employ them in the two cells that we plan on building.

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Mar 13, 2024

Listen To Our Interview On Family Honor

This 12 minute podcast was a pleasure for us to take part in. Brenda Cerkez visits with Mary and Faustina about filming, family, and the website. You can listen to this podcast by:

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Mar 13, 2024

Taking The Example Of The Early Church: Living As Catholics In The World But Not Of It

FABIOLA tells a story that touches on important themes that can be employed today. The characters to be seen in the film have "being in the world and not of it" down to an art. If we could use the tactics illustrated through these characters for our own world, perhaps there would follow something similar to what followed the conversion of the Roman Empire: namely the High Middle Ages.

Although this period had its faults, it was undeniably a time of prosperity in the Church and the culture. The story of FABIOLA tells of the sacrifices that made such a change possible. Read about how the early Christians were able to win the world with their devotion to the Holy Will and how we can do likewise here.

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Mar 12, 2024

Second Day Of Set Building: Floor Is Laid And Walls Are Erected

We have continued to work on the Pilot Scene set. We have laid a protective flooring down and have built 2 of the walls. Stay tuned for more set updates!

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Mar 12, 2024

Faustina Bowen

Faustina Bio 2023

Enjoy the history of our culture and be inspired by these articles written by Faustina Bowen.

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Mar 12, 2024

How Homesteading Can Help You Live A More Purposeful, Virtuous Life

Maybe this behind the scenes account about our homesteading adventure will motivate you to get back to the basics yourself, or at least shed some light on why traditional minded Catholics are attracted to homesteading. Continue reading...

Mar 11, 2024

New Motivation At The Studio As Set Construction Begins To Take Shape

As you heard last week, set construction has officially begun! That means that this week will bring you more pictures and behind the scenes looks into the construction.

It is exciting because we are now physically seeing the FABIOLA Pilot coming together.

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Mar 11, 2024

Save The Date: We Are Honored To Be On Mary's Town Productions On May 2nd. Please Join Us!

Mary’s Town Productions is a Catholic Production Company whose sole vision is to pray for and work toward the transformation of Hollywood and all media worldwide.

Every Thursday the calls are graced with accomplished Guest Speakers. These Catholic Artists engage audiences for an hour and a half, live via ZOOM. We are so honored to be invited to be a guest speaker on May 2nd!

We have been challenged to get 100 of our fans on the call. Since we so happen to know that we have over 300 faithful fans who are subscribed to The Journal, we hope that a handful of you will join the call. You don't have to actively participate in any way, you can have your mic muted and your camera off while you listen to us if you would like.

We will send out a link to join the call through The Journal so make sure you are subscribed so you don't miss this exciting opportunity for Industrious Family Films!

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Mar 08, 2024

This Week We Successfully Raised $575. Thank You To All Our Supporters!

This week we successfully raised $575. Thank you to all our supporters! Don't forget, every time that you contribute $100 you are eligible to win one of our 2 Fabiola Sweatshirts on March 15th!

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Mar 08, 2024

Who's Hitting The Theater To Watch CABRINI Today?

Some live in busy cities and get to enjoy all the buzz around what's currently going on. Others live simple quite lives in the country where it still takes several weeks for news to reach us. If the metaphor does not quite make sense I will speak plain, we won't be able to enjoy CABRINI in a theater. But I hope that many of you are! Go out there and support Catholic, wholesome entertainment! Read our CABRINI review here...

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Mar 07, 2024

Shifting The Costume Focus To Set Building: Day One Of Building The Pilot Scene Set!

Not very much for our first day but we have moved lumber, plywood, steel walls and sheetrock up 3 flights of stairs!

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Mar 07, 2024

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Mar 06, 2024

Kate Tries On St. Agnes' Costume For The First Time

Kate has received her costume! What do you think of it?

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Mar 06, 2024

Did You Know That St. Therese The Little Flower "Read And Reread" Fabiola?

I would have liked to have a chat with the Little Flower about this.

It is interesting to think that she is now enjoying paradise with St. Agnes and St. Sebastian. Hopefully we all will get our chance someday. "Be Saints!"

Over the years we have been very inspired by the reach of the Fabiola novel. Many other young Traditional Catholic homeschoolers in the English-speaking world have read this novel as a part of their curriculum and have reached out to us and let us know that they are familiar with the novel that has inspired our fifth film.

Once when we had a seminarian from Mexico over for dinner, the only book he noticed on our bookcase was the gold lettering of FABIOLA. Upon inspection, he was surprised to find that it was in English. The novel was originally written in Spanish and he had expected it to be in the language he had read it in.

We have also met a woman from Mexico whose mother loved the story so well that she had named her Fabiola. Our friend Fabiola was also surprised to know that we knew where her name had come from. She was saddened that others had told her that Fabiola was fictional, but I reassured her that there is a Saint Fabiola who largely influenced Cardinal Wiseman's portrayal of the fictional noblewoman.

More recently, we were informed of the story above about St. Therese of Lisieux and just the other day, we received a note from a French lady who said that she had also read the novel by Cardinal Wiseman. She also proudly informed us that St. Pancratius, another character to be seen in the FABIOLA movie, is the special patron of her town.

The reach of FABIOLA is truly amazing and we are eager to bring it forward for another generation through film. And you can help us with that mission by contributing to the FABIOLA Pilot drive now!

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Mar 05, 2024

Aidan Tries On Fulvius' Costume For The First Time

Aidan has received his costume! What do you think of it?

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Mar 05, 2024

Pilgrim In Rome Sends Pictures Of Catacombs: Brings To An Eerie Reality What The Early Church Went Through

While in Rome, our friend was able to get a guided tour of the catacombs beneath St. Agnes's Basilica. Thank you for the pictures, Molly!

You may recall from the script party that a character gets lost in the catacombs in FABIOLA? I know for sure that I wouldn't want to get lost down there. When commenting on the script, Producer Kathleen mentioned, "I was really blown away by the scene when Torquatas is lost in the catacombs which demonstrated to me how far the scripting at Industrious Family Films has come."

This scene is where the apostate Torquatas is hopelessly lost and anticipates his slow death by starvation. He is tormented by the thought of being surrounded by Christians who bravely faced their martyrdoms for the Faith that he had rejected and betrayed. The devil now comes to lure him to despair.

We were inspired by a combination of Walt Disney's Fantasia, and Dumbo, and Dante's Divine Comedy when writing this scene. Taking from Dumbo--the shades, as the demon tormentors are called in The Divine Comedy, dance about until they evaporate in the light that the procession carrying the body of a virgin martyr illuminates, which in turn is inspired by a similar scene in Fantasia.

Stay tuned as this moving tale of the catacombs comes to life on the big screen!

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Mar 04, 2024

Lovey Tries On Fabiola's Costume For The First Time

Lovey has received her costume! What do you think of it?

I like how you incorporated the book, Lovey.

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Mar 04, 2024

Tune In While We Are LIVE On Radio Maria Today At 12:00 PM PT!

Listen to our LIVE interview on Radio Maria today at 12:00 pm PT. Listen Now

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Mar 04, 2024

Industrious Family Makes Great Strides In Purchase Of A Second Camera. "Filming Is SO Much Easier!"

Let's talk equipment. First a little history: for our first full-length film we recorded the entire film on an iPad. This meant recording sound separate (which we did not do for some scenes and that meant going back and doing voiceovers!) and a pretty limited amount of angles. We couldn't use the zoom in at all because it was very pixillated.

Fast forward to Grisly Grisell. We upgraded to a mirrorless digital Sony Alpha a6100. This camera stepped up our image quality a ton! But we were still filming all angles on this one camera.

For FABIOLA, we have gotten another Sony a6100 with a 55-210 mm lens. Experimenting with it, we are very happy with what having this new camera and lens allows us to be capable of! We are now able to film closeups of two characters at once, there's better editing continuity, and the less we have to run through a scene the better the acting quality is!

This is going to be colossal for Industrious Family Films. Having two cameras is probably going to cut our shoot days in half. Having the bigger lens makes it so that we can get much more cinematic shots without being super close. It allows us to have more texture in the foreground and get the actors in focus with a shallow depth of feel, stepping up the professionalism in our films. Coming up in FABIOLA!

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Mar 01, 2024

This Week We Successfully Raised $25. Thank You To All Our Supporters!

This week we successfully raised $25. Thank you to all our supporters!

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Mar 01, 2024

We Were Interviewed On A Catholic Take Not Once, But Twice! Watch Our First Interview By Following The Link Below

We were so honored to be interviewed twice on A Catholic Take! Thank you Mr. McClane for having us on in January and then again last week. If you missed our first interview, you can still watch it here.

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