“I was just blown away,” Mascagni said in a video interview about meeting Father Martin for the first time. Official trailer for Building a Bridge! Pre-sale for the film begins today and is 50% off through this weekend. Without question the documentary was a go. His ability to see past animosity with a smile was heartwarming, healing. They were both drawn to the pollyanna that is Father Martin. When he among a few Bishops spoke out against the Pulse Nightclub massacre, she felt like she could tell the story of her friend lost to the mass violence, Christopher Andrew Leinonen, through his mother, Christine Leinonen. However, like her counterpart, once she met Father Martin and listened to him, she felt his passion for change. “‘I don’t know about a story about a priest,'” she recalled saying to Mascagni. “I was really skeptical when Evan talked about Father Martin,” said Shannon in a video interview.
When the filmmaker moved to New York, his mother pleaded he go see Father Martin speak, and he did. However, his mother believed that he could find people serving the Church with similar beliefs as Mascagni. Post disillusioned from the Church around the time she came out as queer in high school Mascagni, from a Catholic Kentucky town, pushed himself away from a religion he felt disregarded his values in various ways. The two filmmakers both have their reasons for distancing themselves from the Church. His book Building a Bridge is an extension of his advocacy, a belief that love for LGBTQ+ communities is essential to the teachings of Catholicism. Evan Mascagni and Shannon Post were looking for a new documentary project after their 2015 documentary, Circle of Poison, about communities impacted by the export of banned pesticides in America, when they found Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest passionate about LGBTQ+ inclusion and advocacy within the Catholic Church.
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