Andrea Iervolino: Making History with “Beyond the Sun”
Andrea Iervolino is one of the most successful Italian professionals in the world, and he’s widely regarded among the best producers and businessmen in Hollywood. He’s the cofounder of AMBI Media Group, and he has produced and distributed more than seventy movies since beginning his career in the industry at age sixteen.
In 2016, Andrea Iervolino made headlines worldwide for the historic announcement of the movie “Beyond the Sun,” which features His Holiness Pope Francis, playing himself. This is the first time the Catholic Church has ever agreed to such a collaboration.
“’Beyond the Sun,’ a simple but effective English-language children’s adventure film in which Pope Francis plays himself, premiered Wednesday at the Vatican, signaling a clear attempt by the pontiff and his communications advisors to use movies as a medium to spread the Catholic message to the young,” read a 2017 press release regarding the event. “The pic, in which Francis appears for roughly six minutes, marks the first time that a pope has appeared in a motion picture. Shot in Patagonia and Vatican City, “Beyond the Sun” is about five kids who run away from home after catechism class and take to the woods to look for Jesus in a hilltop sanctuary. The multi-ethnic cast features child actors Aiden Cumming-Teicher, Cory Gruter-Andrew, Emma Duke, Kyle Breitkopf, and Sebastiάn Alexander Chou.”
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