Angel Studios’s newest film, Cabrini, never had a “political drive,” according to producer Leo Severino.
Cabrini released internationally on March 8 amid the polarizing 2024 campaign talking point of immigration. The film depicts the life of Francesca Cabrini, an Italian immigrant whose compassionate heart fights to bring hope and assistance to fellow marginalized people living in New York’s slums during the late 1800s.
“Cabrini’s message is far beyond any one issue. Her biggest message is that line in the film where she says, ‘We can serve our weakness or we can serve our purpose. We can’t serve both,’” Severino told the Washington Examiner. “So much of our defects and our weaknesses and that internal voice that says you can’t do something or that you’re not good enough … that little voice, that’s our weakness.”
“But if we have a purpose that’s greater than that, we can’t let that voice be the boss,” he continued. “We have to have this other voice that says, ‘You know you’re called to this particular duty, this particular sacrifice, or this particular strife for something great.’ That’s really the inspiration behind wanting to make this film.”
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Severino pointed to a scene in the film where Cabrini indicates it is her vision to create an “empire of h …