Producing new series Alive in Christ for American TV
A special project was entrusted to our team by the EWTN - this time Studio Siposh was responsible for a documentary film from the first draft of the script to the final credits rolling up the screen.
We dug deep into the meaning of Eucharist and the history of practicing the holy mass. We were honored to interview experts based in Slovenia and Rome, who shared their knowledge for the camera.
As we wanted our audience not just to understand but also feel and see how first Christians under the Roman Empire lived, we included two short fiction films to the documentary. One focusing on Ignatius of Antioch being imprisoned and the other following old testimonies of Saint Justin Martyr’s trial. To add to the atmosphere, we wrote dialogues in Latin and also hosted a Latin expert on set, so he could correct actors’ spelling mistakes.
An adventurous part of production was creating catacombs, where first Christians buried their dead and led a holy mass on occasion. We discovered a region in Slovenia where grounds are based on sand and where farmers dug holes in this sand for centuries to store their vegetable harvest in. One of the farmers who still keeps this kind of an underground hole, let us expand it a bit and transform it to our needs.
We were very happy that Mariah Dolenc, a creator and YouTuber, was ready to accept the role of the film host. She is a Californian who lives in Slovenia and was a perfect fit as we needed a native English speaker with great charisma and performing skills.
The soundtrack was prepared carefully and serves to connect events happening a long time ago with contemporary times. One of the film goals was also to show that Eucharist practice has not changed a lot in the past 2000 years.
