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Alexandra Boylan on Faith, Filmmaking, and Women-Led Stories
From stand-in gigs to building a women-led studio, filmmaker Alexandra Boylan has walked a winding road in Hollywood. In this episode of Koffee Chit Chat, she shares how conviction, craft, and community shaped her journey—and why she turned down a $2.5M deal to keep God in the script.
We dive into:
- Moving to LA at 19 and redefining success
- Founding Boylan Sisters to put women at the center of storytelling
- Creating modern, faith-rooted family films like Catching Faith and Switched
- Building resources—novels, study guides, and discussion guides—that spark real conversations at home
- Practical advice for aspiring creators: pick yourself, start small, and build your tribe
Tune in for a conversation on integrity, empathy, and the courage to tell stories that matter.
- “That’s it for today’s brew of inspiration on Koffee Chitchat. Take what filled your cup today and pour it into someone else’s life.”
Hey y'all, hey, it's your girl Paula with another exciting episode of Coffee Kit Chat. We have an awesome guest in the house this morning, but you know how we do it. Before we introduce our guests, we're gonna shout out the Coffee of the Week, which is a s'mores coffee latte. Today on the show, I'm excited to welcome Alexandria Bolin, an award-winning filmmaker, writer, producer, and actress who's been blazing her own trail in Hollywood for over two decades. She co-founded The Born and Sisters Entertainment, a studio dedicated to uplifting family, friendly films like Catch and Fake, Switch, and The Greatest Inheritance. Her latest project, Identity Crisis, even inspired a ra novel. Alexandria is also the author of Create Your Own Career in Hollywood, where she shares her journey from struggling actress to successful producer. On top of all of that, she was recently honored with the 2025 California Women of Faith Award. I can't wait for you to hear her story. Alexandria, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER_01:Thank you, Paula and Brittany. Thank you so much for having me. I'm honored to be here. I'm excited.
SPEAKER_02:We're excited to have you and hear your story. So take us back a little. What first sparked your love for film and storytelling?
SPEAKER_01:So I grew up in Massachusetts. My father is a minister, and I just love performing. Actually, I loved acting and I acted in my father's church and I acted in high school. And then I just knew I wanted to do that. And there was nothing else that I had that much passion for. And at 19 years old, I announced to my parents that I was moving from Boston to Los Angeles, California. And I was going to be the next movie star. And uh they were a little uh they weren't surprised, but a little concerned. But my parents were so supportive of me and they actually helped me move to LA at 19. I went there all by myself and I just started pursuing the film industry and I spent, you know, years and years and years pounding the pavement as an actor. And now this is in the early 2000s, you know, 1998, where you couldn't be a multi-hyphenate, you kind of had to be one thing. So I, you know, was really focused on, okay, I'm an actor. And I put every other skill like in a box under the bed and was like, I'm just an actor. You know, I got, I had a really rough time, a really hard go at it in Los Angeles. It's a, you know, I didn't know anyone. I wasn't a Nepo baby. I didn't know any single soul. And um, in 2009, I actually, you know, looked at my life and said, okay, God, whatever I'm doing isn't working. You know, I was doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results for 10 years. And I was like, if I keep doing this, I'm gonna wake up 30, 40, 50 with nothing to show for my life. So I actually packed up my bags in 2009 and I moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where industry was booming. And I kind of resurrendered my life to the Lord and I said, okay, God, I mean, I always love the Lord, but I don't, I think I thought I was living in the will of God, but I was like, okay, now, God, I'll give it back to you. And I want to live in the will of the Lord. And so I spent some time in Albuquerque, New Mexico, kind of praying. And um, I ended up getting a lot of uh stand-in jobs as Megan Fox's stand-in. I was Kat Denny's standing on Thor, and I started working on all these huge movies as a stand-in. And then it kind of dawned on me like, why am I waiting for people to pick me? Why don't I pick myself and like start making my own movies? So I started, I found a bunch of awesome independent filmmakers who wanted to do something different than me. I found a director, a cinematographer, a guy who wanted to hold the boom. And we started making our own films. And I fell in love with telling stories from the other side of the camera, actually. And uh in catching faith, you see, I'm I'm the lead, I played Jesse, the best friend. But as we continue to make movies, I actually just really loved telling stories. And it, I felt like God was saying, see, I had such a better plan for your life if you would just let it go. And he had that I was able to use my skills in so many ways that brought me so much joy, which is writing and producing and directing and telling stories. So that's my journey to the film industry.
SPEAKER_02:What an inspiring journey. I just love it. Thank you, thank you. She said, if they won't hire me, I will create and I will do it on my own. I love creators.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, I always say if they won't let you have a seat at the table, go and build your own table.
SPEAKER_02:There you are. There you are. I love that. And how did you and your sister decide to start the Bowling Sisters Entertainment?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, well, so um when we got the opportunity to make catching faith, I had made a little tiny thriller that I self-funded, self-taught myself how to make a movie, ended up selling it to a major distribution company. And my sales agent actually told me, you know what you should be making is faith-based family films. And I was, like I said, I was like, God, I'm in this to win this for you. And I really felt like he called me into the space of faith-based family movies. And um, the budget was actually so low, you guys, to make catching faith that I had a choice. I could either make the movie or I could keep my Los Angeles apartment. So I actually gave up my apartment. I put everything I owned in storage, and I lived out of one suitcase for a year to make catching faith a reality. Oh yeah. I gave it all up and followed God. And I ended up moving, I called my sister, Andrea, who lived in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. That's where she lives. And I said, Hey, do you want to consult on a faith-based film with me? And she was like, I'd love to. And she's a clinical licensed social worker by trade, and she has a lot of great insight to families and what they're going through. Um, she also lived more in the real world than I did living in LA. So we had looked at the landscape of the faith-based industry back in that time period. And I said, we said, you know, we don't really see any women being represented in the starring roles. So I went back to my executive producer and I said, you know, I think I want this movie to star a woman. And he said, Oh, there's no numbers in the back marketplace to back up a female-led faith-based film. And I said, That's because nobody's doing it. If you would give us the chance to do it and prove there's a massive audience desperate to see themselves represented, you'll be happy. And so I ended up moving in with my sister in Triple Falls, Wisconsin, and we wrote Catching Faith together with John Katie Graham. The three of us wrote the script. We ended up shooting the movie in her hometown. They gave us lots of in-kind favors, the football stadiums, the football jerseys, everything, which is what we were able to make a very small budget movie look much bigger with all the in-kind. And then we were Mustard Seed Entertainment for a long time. And under the mustard seed umbrella, we were we did catching faith one and two, wish for Christmas, the greatest inheritance, and switch. And then we realized that people didn't really know that Andre and I were the creators behind all of these movies. And, you know, they didn't know, oh, you're the Switch people, oh, you're the catching, oh, that makes sense. You're the women movie people who make all the movies. So we decided to rebrand to the Boylan sisters that people knew that we were women making films for women. And it's been really awesome to be like a brand where um we're kind of branding ourselves. Like we have a lot of brothers out there, the Kendrick brothers, the Irwin. Cohen brothers, but they're not really any sisters. So we were like, well, we're sisters, and let's empower other women through what we're doing to say, get out there and tell stories. And um, so that's how we became the Boylan Sisters.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I love that because when I was watching Captain Fate, I did see on the field, Eau Claire, and I was like, hey, I lived in Toma, Wisconsin for like three years in the military military. Oh, yay! So I was very familiar with that. I said, Is that is this film in Wisconsin?
SPEAKER_01:Yes, yes, it was in Wisconsin. That was our yeah, that was that was such that place is so beautiful. Camera, it looks great on screen and such kind, amazing people who all rallied around that film and really helped us bring it to life.
SPEAKER_02:Awesome, awesome. I love it. And you say we got all these brothers, let's say the bowling sisters and women we're gonna represent.
SPEAKER_01:Right. And we crew up 61% women on our set. And uh, obviously, if you see our movies, there's like 10 girls on the call sheet for actresses. So we give so many roles to women and so many um women both in front of the camera and and behind the camera. It's really important to us that we are we are um building a platform for other women to succeed as well. And if we succeed, we want to send the ladder down, upwards, backwards to every woman we can.
SPEAKER_02:I love it. And it's family-friendly content. And I know that's kind of like your specialty. So why is that so important to you?
SPEAKER_01:Oh my gosh, because well, A, we need so much of it in our world today. Um, we we need to speak life-giving truths to young people, especially. Um, we love that we're starting, we do movies that have very strong messages that parents can talk with their kids about. They all have a theme. Catching faith is integrity, switched is anti-bullying, identity crisis is you're fearfully and wonderfully made, created in the image of a God who loves you, created you on purpose for a purpose and doesn't make mistakes. So to us, these messages are so important. And sometimes, you know, um we we just know that it's hard sometimes for parents to have these conversations, especially when kids are being bombarded with other messages. So we hope that we can be um, you know, a talking point in a family to sit down. We've had a lot of messages from parents who said that they watched catching faith and their kids came and told them the truth about something they had never. Media is a way to start conversations. And our movies are not, we are not preaching, we tell stories. And within the story, we hope you wrestle with the questions that we ask. We like to ask questions, and then we also provide Bible studies, youth group curriculums, family conversation starters so that parents can have a tool to talk about it. It's just to us, it's like when you get, I've made a couple of thrillers, and I'll tell you like no one's ever told me that my thriller changed their life. But when we get messages from all over the world where people are seeing our movies and they're changing their lives, I'm like, okay, God, you know, we need more of this.
SPEAKER_02:And you know, you're in the right business when people can say, Hey, that inspired my family to talk about all these honest things. And I just love it, especially for our teenagers, because, like you say, it's enough negativity out there. We definitely need positivity in the world today.
SPEAKER_01:We do. We do.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yeah. And catching faith was such a success. So, what was it like watching it grow into a sequel?
SPEAKER_01:Oh my gosh, it's all to the glory of God because we put that movie out. We made it with an all-in-wenty-five thousand dollar budget. We put it out, yeah, direct to video on demand and DVD. When it first came out, it actually didn't do that well. And our sales agent was like, uh, the movie didn't do that great. That's okay. We'll move on to Wish for Christmas. We'll keep, you know, parlaying to the next one. And we were kind of disappointed. We thought we wouldn't make a sequel. We told our sales agent we should write a sequel. And he goes, You're never gonna make a sequel of a straight to video on demand movie. Just, you know, move on. It didn't do well. And then months and months later, the movie gained traction, word of mouth, and it started to sell like crazy. We were selling DVDs, we were getting picked up by every streamer, and it ended up going on to become the top five consistent selling movie for the distribution company.
SPEAKER_02:And I think it was women.
SPEAKER_01:I think when women found out that that movie was for them, women talk and they tell everybody. And we had people say, I bought 20 DVDs and passed them out at church. So then when my sales agent got a call from the distribution company and said we would like to fund the sequel, we were like, We're getting our sequel. And what a testament because our sales agent was like, This never happens. A tiny little movie like this doesn't usually take off and become a sequel. So it was uh to us, it was so it just shows that you never can give up. You know, you have to put your stuff out there, and then you even if you think it didn't do well, watch God work. Watch God work.
SPEAKER_02:Watch him work, as we always say, won't he do it? He'll do it, yes. Oh yeah. So out of all the films you worked on, which one feels closest to your heart?
SPEAKER_01:That's like asking you what's your favorite baby? So hard because I, you know, I I uh blood, sweat, and tears going to all these movies. And because I write them and I take them from conception completion, I really pour my heart and life into them. But I think honestly, I would have to say switched. And the reason it switched is closest to my heart is because when I was a young girl, I was bullied really badly. I grew up in a very affluent town in Massachusetts, but I was the minister's kid, so I didn't have very much, and everybody else around me had a lot. It was like the in um I used to go to the basement of the church and pick out my clothes, and I had a lot of hand-me-downs, and I was we were just not at the same economic uh situation that everybody else in this Massachusetts was. And the kids bullied me so bad, made fun of me. And I, you know, the the what thing kids say to each other stays with people for a long time, and you're, you know, and so I was like thinking when we were about to write switched, I was like, you know, what if those kids could walk a day in my shoes? What if they lived in my life and they had to go to the basement of the church and pick out clothes that isn't cool? I wanted to go to the mall. I wanted to go shopping. I couldn't do that. And so I just that started the conversation of like, what would it look like if two girls could switch bodies and actually live in each other's life? That create empathy, would that give compassion that you go, wow, I didn't know you were going through that? And also I think it was really important to talk about why a bully is a bully. People don't just bully, they bully because their life is broken, their heart is broken somewhere. So if we could heal the heart of a bully, we could stop the chain reaction of that person hurting other people. And that to me was so important and powerful. It's like my love letter to young girls. And I also think boys bully very different than girls. And so to me, it was really important that we could tell a story from a woman perspective of how girls bully each other. So that one is like, and it's done really, really well. And we actually just published the novel for that one too on Amazon. Okay. Five years later, we came out with the novel because we always want to provide more content for our audience. And sometimes if kids are distracted while they're watching a movie and they're not really listening to what we're saying, we hope that they'll pick up the book and then they will really digest the information that we're trying to say. Love your neighbor as yourself. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself. And so that movie is my love letter, and it was so healing to write it. And actually, you know what's really cool, you guys, was I I had gone home to shoot one of my movies in my hometown. And I ended up employing a lot of the kids that I went to high school with for my movie. And before I had made the switch, I had a lot of beautiful conversations with the kids that I had gone to school with. And here I am making a movie, inviting them into the process, hiring them, giving them jobs. And it was so healing because I got to hear what that why they were in such a bad place in high school. Like when I said, you know, my father passed away and I didn't know how to handle that, and I laughed out at school. And so all of that was poured into switched of like so that to me is it was so healing. And I hope that it encourages young girls to really think before they cyberbully or bully, because once you put it out, you can't get it back and you don't know the pain it could cause the other person.
SPEAKER_02:So true, so true. Because if we all would just follow the golden rule, do unto others as you have them do unto you, and it would be such a better world. My daughter and I were saying that a couple of days ago. It's like if everybody would just treat others the way you want to be treated, you don't want to be bullied. So why would you go and bully someone else?
SPEAKER_00:You know? Yes. I like how you showed um with the bully, her parents, and like her background and how they were just pushing, they didn't care, like they had their own agenda, and you get to humanize the bully as well, because usually it's just like a straight evil person, but like when you get to humanize the bully and like learn about them, and it made it resonate more when they grew to be a better person.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, yes. I love that you caught on to that. And then we showed that you know the parents just weren't paying attention. And then, like, you know, we're trying to tell parents you need to really pay attention of what your kids are doing and how you know, find out what you're what they're doing on social media and how is that affecting. And so, yeah, we didn't want to villainize the parents, but we wanted to show the importance of one parent who's very involved in their kids' life, and one parent that A is pushing them to do the wrong thing, but also just not paying attention. And once the parents find out, they're like, we didn't realize what we were pushing you into. So there are so many wonderful parts of this movie that that everyone can kind of glean something from and learn from it. So thank you.
SPEAKER_02:Love it, love it. And um, your new film, Identity Crisis, is also a YA novel. How did that uh crossover happen?
SPEAKER_01:Yes. So we had actually written the script and made the movie, and our one of our partners said, you know, you should make this a YA novel. And we were like, we hadn't even thought about that. So Andrea and I decided to go ahead and take the script and write it into a novel and then to sell, well, we would have loved a publishing company, but we self-published it along with the film. And like I had said before, I think, especially for identity crisis, which is all about your identity line in Christ and that you are fearfully and wonderfully made. We really wanted kids to read about that, read it to really know that this is what God says about you. What does God say about you that you are loved, that you are cared for it, that you were created in his image of love. So um, doing the novel was really exciting. And then we're now our plan is to release novels with every single film we do, along with all the companion materials. We're busy. We're like, oh, so yeah, and then and then we it was just a great companion and hoping that you know kids are distracted when they watch TV, they're on their TikTok, they're on their social media that they might only half hear it. So we're like encouraging them to read the book because then they can't, they have to really read, they can kind of focus in there and they're reading the book.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. And I know we can't uh talked about it earlier. When you go uh create your own career in Hollywood, what's the biggest lesson from your own journey you're shared with aspiring filmmakers, chit channelers? Pay attention, and my own daughter, because she's a filmmaker as well.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. Um my biggest thing is that don't wait for someone to choose you, pick yourself. I think um the biggest thing is you might think you need a lot of things to make a movie. You really need a camera and a boom and a couple of actors. And when I started, I had very little, but I still was it, but it's all about it's you don't need a lot of people on set, you just need the right ones and you need the talented ones. Whoever is behind that camera, you know, the the audience doesn't see what's going on in the background. All they see is what's in front of that camera. And if you were on the set of some of my movies, you might think it was Rinky Dink or it was a student film. It doesn't matter because we made sure everything in that on that frame was beautiful, and that's what's more important than having 50 crew members who are just eating your crafty. You don't need all that, and so and I think it's also um my other advice is to just do it, and even if you're doing shorts and you're just practicing and learning, to just get out there and start creating and honing your craft. And then also, I do very much believe that in every film we've made, we've never had everything we needed, but we would step out in faith and we we would take the necessary steps to start the project, and then we prayed, and God would provide things that we can't. What is impossible for us is possible for God. We have to step out and let Him shine by miracle after miracle on something of what he did to make sure that our films got finished. So just do it and just go for it and um and find a tribe. Find a tribe of people that want to join you and work with you and believe in you and grow with you. I've worked with the same people since my first feature film to my eighth, because I have been building a tribe of people that we create films together.
SPEAKER_02:That is awesome. That good circle. I love it. And congratulations on the Women of Faith Award. What did that recognition mean to you personally?
SPEAKER_01:Oh my gosh. Well, you know, my parents flew out from Boston. My mother is 83 and my father's 86. Okay. They're still with us, and they flew from Boston to be there for me to get the award. So, of course, tears. I'm just like, and to think if I could tell that little girl who got in her car at 19 and drove to LA with a big, huge dream and had a lot of really tough, a lot of doors closing in my face, a lot of rejection. If I could just tell her, don't worry, it's gonna work out, and all that perseverance is gonna pay off. And the for California to recognize me, I haven't had an easy journey. It's been really hard, but I didn't give up. And I'm still not giving up to this day when things get hard. So I, when I got to stand up and say, this is such an honor that California is recognizing a girl who came from Massachusetts, a tiny little minister's house, and trusted in God and made things that have gone on to bring the message of Jesus to the world. And I have been very much a part of my community in Los Angeles. I have opened my home to Christian Women Entertainment. I've been a Hollywood prayer member. Um, I've been a women and film member, influence women. I have been such an advocate for women in Los Angeles. So it meant a lot for me for them to recognize all of my hard work and how much I am trying to empower other women to get behind the camera because storytelling, Brittany, storytelling is a massive influence on the world. So I want more women who love Jesus to get behind the camera and tell stories that go to the world and change their lives.
SPEAKER_02:Absolutely love that because a lot of times I know people say in um Hollywood, oh, you're not gonna make it if you talk about your faith, if you talk about, you know, Jesus, but you have proved them, proven them wrong, and we just absolutely love it. And that's why we got to think of our because you can't have your faith, and your faith, I'm sure, had to be strong through all of those tough times.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, yes, it yeah, it's it's very hard, it is very challenging, and you do. But the good thing is, I think God gave me a spirit of perseverance because every time someone, I mean, I've told this story before, but we got offered$2.5 million at the script level for switch from a major studio, and that was very tempting because I was broke at the time. I'm just an independent filmmaker, and they wanted me to remove God and make the movie Ranchi. And I obviously got off the phone call, went and took a walk and prayed. And I was like, God, I will never remove you from anything. And I called back and said, Thank you very much, but we are gonna pass on the offer. And this was after I that script had been rejected by so many studios, and I was like, God, I'm never going to ever take you out of anything. And it was only a couple weeks later that I met the private investor who invested in that movie and said, I love the script, I don't want to change a thing. So the God, I can't remove God because then I would just not be blessed in it. When God shows me those things, it gives me the courage to stand for him because he is in this with us. And his timing is better than our timing. Sometimes I'm really frustrated. I'm like, God, what are you doing? I need it faster, I need it now. Why is this person saying no? But then I always see that God's like, hang on, I got the timing, and you'll see. So I'm glad that I have a little life in the rearing mirror where I've seen what God has done with everything, and I'll never remove them.
SPEAKER_02:I just love it, absolutely love it.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, because why looking in like the faith film is it's like a small category. So it's like it's cool to see things that are a little more modern, like switched and things like that. It's like it's more interesting to watch. Because sometimes it'd be like films, it'll be like, okay, like you know, like it's kind of like, but that was more modern fun. I feel like women can um write and produce like some amazing stories, and it needs to be more out there. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01:And I love that you said that, Brittany, because that is so important to me is that I want to make hip and fun, cool movies that are just like mainstream, but for the faith audience. And that's where Switch was so outside the box when we were pitching it. Faith Studios didn't really understand switching bodies, and I was like, it's a parable, it's okay, God can handle it. And then mainstream didn't like that it was faith-based. So I love that you said that because like our attention to detail of clothes, production design, like I want people to think we're Disney and then be like, wow, that's definitely not the message that you get from Disney. So that is really important to us that we stand out in our space, that we are creating. I want girls to want to watch this at summer parties. I want them to go to school and be proud to say this is for me. And I mean, hey, I grew up a minister's kid, so I got a lot of stuff that I thought was kind of corny and silly, and I would be embarrassed that I my friends would know I was watching it. So, like, my goal was something that they'd be proud of that it was for that, you know.
SPEAKER_02:Absolutely love it. Do you have any questions?
SPEAKER_00:If a movie remained about your life, what genre would it be? And who would you want to play you?
SPEAKER_01:Oh my god. Well, I think, you know, I think my life would definitely have to be a comedy because in all the drama, there's always comedy. So like all the crazy things you have to look back and laugh of like living out of suitcases, sleeping. I've slept on sleeping bags to make movies. I've slept, I had to sleep in um like the gym of a house under a under a treadmill because I didn't have anywhere to stay. But I wanted to make sure my crew and my cast were taken care of. So many times I have taken the the lesser situation to make sure that they have the better situation. So that's there's some funny parts of my story that um I think would be a comedy. If anyone could play me, you know, I probably who would I pick? Because I mean, I used to look exactly like Lindsay Lohan. We're about the same age in LA. People used to mistake me for her. And I love Lindsay Lohan. So probably because she's so good at comedy and she's the freakier Friday girl, she'd I'd be like, Lindsay looks like me. Lindsay could play me, and it'd be great to have a mainstream person in a faith-based story. So having Lindsay would make the movie hilarious because she'd do such a good job with all the comedy of my life. Like, you kept to laugh at it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I grew up with Lindsay too. I like um, I love all her movies, so that would be really cool. She's amazing.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, come on, meet girls, freaky Friday. Like, she is amazing. I love just um yeah, coming back out into movies, and you know, like so. She's made a comeback and cleaned up her life, and she's kind of tough, you know, being a young. That's the other thing. I look back at my early 20s, and I when I look at how God didn't give me the career I wanted, I wonder if God was protecting me from what could have happened to me in the industry had I not succeeded. I think now I'm back going, you know what? Maybe God was like, you aren't ready yet to have all the things. And it is a tough industry and it can really destroy young women. So I'm happy to see Lindsay doing so much better.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I love that because I always tell people you're exactly where God wanted you to be at this point. Because you know, you when you start looking back, like, oh, I should have done this or I could have did that. But to me, uh I think I uh someone interviewed me on a podcast and said, You can change one thing, and I said, You know what? It would be nothing. And they say, Nothing. I said, No, because wherever I am now in life, I had to go through all those steps to get to where I am now. So I would change absolutely nothing.
SPEAKER_01:Absolutely nothing. I actually just wrote a script. You'll love this. I just wrote a script of rom-com about a girl. It's called the redo, with and the girl is turning 40 and she has all these regrets and all these, oh, I should have done this, I should have done that. And she gets a chance to go back to her 20s and redo it. And of course, she realizes that you change one thing, you change something else. You don't get to keep it all. And then she gets into her which she tries to redo everything and destroys all the things she loved about her life and her 40s. So when she goes back, she goes, I appreciate what I have now. I don't regret the past. And I think that is so important. I'm 45. So I know you get to that age and you start going, it's oh, what if I had made that choice? What if I had done that? No, we're exactly where God wanted us. He was preparing our heart, preparing us. And so I love that. And I can't wait to make that movie because I think a lot of women will relate to that.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So um with your production company, do you let people um screenwriters pitch ideas or do you guys do any of that type of um well?
SPEAKER_01:So our production company doesn't have in-house funding. So people script me all the uh send me scripts all the time, but I'm not independently financed. I have to go out and raise money for all my films. So I um I'd love to look at people's scripts, but I don't really have like, I'm not like, you know, Sony studios that have like a ton of money behind me. When I do, and God blesses me, I will go out and get every script I love and help make it because I know how hard it is to get movies made. Um, but right now we're just not in that position. But I always try to mentor people. If people send me their script and want me to give them notes or help them, I'm very open to that. Or if somebody wants to join forces with us and work with us and we're a team, both raising the money, that would be okay too. But yeah, it's hard because it is so challenging to raise private investment. And, you know, I like the Irwin brothers are under Lions Gate and the Kendrick brothers are under Sony. So they have an ability to like bring things in because it's fully funded. So we just need to pray that God give us our home where we're funded and where we can also help fund other people's projects. Because I do want to see more women getting their films fund funded and financed. So if I could ever help in that way, I do. But right now I don't have the windfall of finances, but it's God is gonna bless it. It's coming, it's coming.
SPEAKER_02:We're gonna speak it. We manifest it today. Okay, well, we surely enjoy talking with you, learning your background. Um, it's just been very inspiring. How can our listeners follow you?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yes, please follow us on I I'm on Instagram, Alexandra Boylan. I'm very active there, and I respond to everyone who writes to me. Um, I'm also on Facebook. We also have a Boylan Sisters Instagram page, and we also have uh, if you want to go to our website, www.theboylandsisters.com, you can find links to all of our movies. You can find all our companion resources there, along with our family conversation starters, our novels. Andrea and I just started publishing fairy tales, retellings of fairy tales, and they're really cute. We have um uh we're having a three-part series, and our third one, Sumbleina, it's coming out soon. So please go to the uh BoylandSisters.com. There's also at the bottom of our homepage is a donation donation button. If somebody wants to give a tax write-off donation to us, we are we work with a nonprofit um that helps us continue to tell stories for for Jesus and for women. So please visit our website and uh follow me on Instagram. Yay! All right.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, and I quoted the day, chit chatters. Thanks for sipping on inspiration with us here at Coffee Chit Chat. Until next time, keep pouring love, laughter, and life into the world because you never know who needs that spark. Tune in next week for another exciting episode.
