The animated film Carlo Acutis, God’s influencer It enlists its premiere within the framework of the celebration of the canonization of the also called “Cybercapostol of the Eucharist.”
Produced by CCC of Americain association with the Augustine Institute, the film will be available since Sunday, April 27 of this year in all homes in the world through platforms FAMFLIXin Spanish, and Formedin English.
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That same Sunday Carlo Acutis will officially be proclaimed in the Vatican, within the framework of the Jubilee of Adolescents.
Born on May 3, 1991, Carlo Acutis was a young Italian who from an early age lived a deep love of God, with a special devotion to Eucharistic miracles, which compiled in A digital exposure that spread through the Internet.
Sick of leukemia, Carlo died on October 12, 2006, at age 15. On October 10, 2020 he was declared Blessed.
Carlo Acutis’s mother “liked it a lot”
In statements to ACI Press on February 14, Juan Carlos Carredano, CEO of CCC of America and executive producer of Carlo Acutis, God’s influencerHe stressed that they plan to release the film in Rome “with the Acutis family and with the Pope, hoping that it will be improved soon.”
Carlo’s mother, Antonia, already saw an advance of the film and “liked it a lot,” Credano said.
Once released, the challenge is to bring the movie “to as many people as possible, that their history is known and inspires many people,” he said.
Bring children closer to God
“The essence of CCC has been to share and bring children to God through exemplary lives, which are saints. And that is what has done that CCC grows for 40 years and is recognized and some confidence in the audience is won, ”he said, recalling the productions they have made about the life of Santos such as San Nicolás, San Patricio and San Francisco de Asís , as well as the Virgin of Fatima and Lourdes.
CCC of America is also known for successful productions that help the evangelization of the little ones, such as Lukas Storyteller. Two years ago, Carredano recalled, when “nothing was known about her canonization,” began the animated film project.
Thus it was that production decided to “make a story based definitively on Carlo’s life, but with some fictional characters to better tell the story”, in order to make it more “brief and attractive for children.”
“We create fictional characters that perfectly help us to capture everything that does Carlo, the essential, that was the love of the poor, their deep devotion to the Eucharist and the Virgin, wanting to share the Eucharistic miracles through Internet”.
After highlighting that Carlo Acutis “is a saint within everyone’s reach, so to speak,” Carredan Life of grace and commune, love others and do good. ”
“From there he took out his famous kit of holiness: read the Bible, pray the rosary, be in life of grace, confess,” he said.
“He Influencer of God “
The movie title is quite current. “Now that the influencersthat really dictate consumption trends, purchases, young people pay attention to them or try to follow life examples, for Carlo ceased to be him to be God who would speak through him. And Carlo many years ago, when there was nothing more than Facebook and had not detonated both the digital era and now, he achieved a message through the media and the page he created of Eucharistic miracles that continue to touch hearts. ”
“When you do things with good intention, with purity of intention and you put yourself in the hands of God, you put your five loaves and two fish and God is responsible for multiplying it. And this is taken to the digital age and that is what Carlo did, ”said the CCC of America CEO.
Carlo Acutis, he reiterated, “I didn’t want to be famous (…) He simply wanted to take advantage of technology to spread this message.”
“There is the challenge” for today’s young people, he said: “Take advantage of artificial intelligence, take advantage of social networks, take advantage of the means to bring God’s love to others and letting him act, not us, that the protagonist be He”.
David Ramos
Graduate in Communication Sciences by the Private University of the North in Trujillo, Peru. With more than 12 years of experience in Catholic journalism working in ACI Press, I am based in Mexico since 2018. I have covered the trips of Pope Francis to Ecuador, Paraguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Panama.