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How Angel Studios And A 91-Year-Old Businessman Teamed Up To Create A Timely Biopic Of Cabrini

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Business News, News, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.86 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Prominent Philadelphia-based business leader, philanthropist and film producer J. Eustace Wolfington joined Forbes Chief Impact Officer, Seth Cohen, to discuss the new film “Cabrini”, a biographic drama centered on the life of Italian Catholic missionary (and relentless entrepreneur) Francesca Xavier Cabrini (portrayed by Cristiana Dell’Anna). The screenplay was written by Rod Barr, produced by Jonathan Sanger and directed by Alejandro Monteverde, is distributed by Angel Studios. Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone I'm Seth Cohen, Chief Impact Officer for Forbes and I'm joined today with my friend Eustace

0:10.3

Wolfington who is a legendary Philadelphia businessman, entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist.

0:19.9

He is the founder of Hafikar, which was the original two-year leasing companies.

0:26.0

He actually created that model.

0:29.0

And since the company he created was sold,'s now invested his time his resources his energy in a variety of different charities catholic charities

0:40.6

local Philadelphia basedbased initiatives.

0:43.7

And he is also the producer of one of the newest

0:49.1

and most phenomenal films on the life

0:52.3

of the first American Saints,

0:54.4

Saint Cabrini, which is out in theaters now.

0:57.1

And so I'm delighted that Eustace could join us

0:59.7

for this conversation.

1:00.7

Eustace, how you doing? Eustace, how you doing? Eustace, how are you today? Wonderful. How you doing?

1:03.8

Eustus, you as producer of the movie Cabrini

1:07.1

are now fulfilling in a lot of ways

1:08.9

a lifelong alignment and relationship

1:12.4

with St. Cabrini that started at your earliest days.

1:14.7

Tell me why St. Cabrini is so important to you and why this movie now is so important to you.

1:21.6

Okay.

1:24.0

Well, I'll go back to the beginning.

1:28.0

I was 23 years of age back in 1955

1:33.0

1955 when I met I was introduced to mother Cabrini in a spiritual sense

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