EWTN's 'The Message of Fatima'
nominated for the
Ksf Niepokalana International Film Festival in Poland
We are very
pleased that EWTN's 'The Message of Fatima' has been nominated at the Ksf
Niepokalana International Film Festival in Poland. This festival in one of the
most important in the Catholic media world and I am hoping that this publicity
will also lead to a Polish version of the series being made. We hope also that
Our Lady is pleased with this series and our attempts to bring her message to as
wider audience as possible.
The Message of
Fatima has already received a great response from the viewers of EWTN, and has
been shown worldwide. It has also been translated into Spanish, for the Spanish
speaking world where the series has attracted a very large following. The
broadcasting of this series has not been completed yet and has two episodes yet
to be shown.
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| On location near Fatima with cinematographer Michal Benko and myself giving direction to Júlia Fialho who plays Jacinta |
The series
consists of eight episodes, six of which are dedicated to each apparition of
Our Lady in 1917 and being broadcast on their corresponding centenary date.
Besides the six episodes on the apparitions of Our Lady, one episode is
dedicated to apparition of the Angel and the last one (to be broadcast in
November of this year) is dedicated to First Saturdays Devotion.
The whole series is in the docudrama format. EWTN
engaged local Fatima actors from Casa do Povo in Fatima for authenticity and was
mostly shot on location in and around
Fatima. Our Lady and the Angel were shot in a London studio. We were greatly
honour by the number of Fatima experts that took part as well as four bishops and
includes Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, Archbishop Emeritus of Krakow, Poland, St
John Paul II secretary.
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| From the Third Part of the Secret dramatisation |
The third part
of the Secret sequence was shot on Chobham common near London, and of course
this is linked with the assignation attempt on Pope St John Paul II, who said that
the message of Fatima is more relevant today than it was in 1917. This is why I
particularly wanted to dramatise this scene for Christians are being persecuted
more now than in Roman times.
We are
currently working on the post-production Episode Seven, which is dedicated to
the sixth and final apparition of Our Lady at Fatima. This will be broadcast on
October 13th and contains the Miracle of the Sun, which was seen by 70,000 people
while the Little Shepherds saw other apparitions of The Holy Family, Our Lord,
Our Lady of Sorrows and Our Lady of Carmel.
The Holy Family apparition to the Little Shepherds
during the October apparition.
Sneak preview still from episode 7 to be shown
on the 13 October on EWTN
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