After it was confirmed that Pope Leo XIV will canonize Carlo Acutis on September 7, 2025, the producer Ave María Films launched the official teaser of the film Holiness kitinspired by the “cyber and the Eucharist” and which has the participation of his mother, Antonia Salzano.
This promotional video presents a new approach to the film, which is expected to be released after the Canonization of Acutis and that had its World Premier in New York (United States), on May 31.
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Interviewed by ACI Press, Gaby Jacoba, producer and screenwriter of Holiness kitHe explains that the film “is the story of a young man who, knowing Carlo Acutis and living the ‘holiness kit’, lives a process of conversion and transformation of life and heart.”
It is known as the “Holiness Kit” of Carlo Acutis to the recommendations that the young man gave to reach the sky: attend Mass, confess, worship the Eucharist, pray the rosary, read the Bible, have devotion to the angel custodian and practice the works of mercy.
They are treated, Jacoba said, of “steps” that Acutis “practiced and lived and for which she is very soon to be canonized this September 7 by Pope Leo XIV.”
“We see how he, in an ordinary practical life, was able to put God as the center of his life, to the Eucharist as the daily beat of his heart, and these seven points that led him to become the first saint millennial And apostle, cyber and the Eucharist, ”he said.
The film has as its protagonist the Mexican actor Antonio Mauri, who embodies Sebastián, whose life is going to be transformed by putting into practice the “Holiness Kit” of Carlo Acutis. The address falls to Pablo Casso, and has the participation and narration of Antonia Salzano.
Among other important and well -known Catholic figures that appear in the film are the Archbishop of Los Angeles (United States), Mons. José Gomez; Mons. José Ignacio Munilla, Bishop of Orihuela-Aliante (Spain), Fr. Rafael Capo; and Dr. Ricardo Castañón, a scientist converted to Catholicism and researcher of Eucharistic miracles.
Gaby Jácoba stressed that Holiness kit “Walk with the canonization of Carlos Cutis and will have its world premiere in the time of Carlos’s canonization.”
“Very soon we will be announcing the date,” he said, indicating that the film will have a “worldwide” premiere in the framework of “Canonization Times” by Carlo Acutis.
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.