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From Homeschool Movie Nights to a Full Catholic Epic: Mary Bowen on Filming Fabiola – 08/05/2026
Mary Bowen recounts how her family avoided mainstream films growing up until, at fourteen, she watched the low-budget homeschool production The War of the Vendée and realized a family could make movies of its own. Since 2017, Industrious Family Films has produced seven feature films and more than twenty other productions, with each project sharpening the family's skills as directors, cinematographers, and actors.
Their newest project, Fabiola, adapts the classic novel of the same name and follows a pagan Roman noblewoman during the last great persecution of the Church. Drawn to the courage of…
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