Chicago, IL— Spirit Juice Studios, an Emmy Award-winning production firm based in Chicago, is proud to announce that the 2024 film Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story is now available to stream on-demand on Amazon Prime.
The feature-length documentary spotlights the life and work of Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of the groundbreaking child welfare organization Boys Town. He is known to many for the Oscar-winning 1938 film in which Spencer Tracy portrayed him, but his true legacy is the thousands of children whose lives he saved through the creation of Boys Town and his international work in reforming child welfare laws after World War II.
Heart of a Servant premiered October 8 in a one-night-only Fathom Event screening across the country. Now it is available for anyone to rent or buy through Amazon Prime Video.
Narrated by Jonathan Roumie, best known for playing Jesus in the hit TV series The Chosen, the film was produced by Spirit Juice Studios for the Father Flanagan League Society of Devotion, a Catholic nonprofit devoted to supporting Father Flanagan’s cause for sainthood.
The movie was filmed on location in Ireland, Germany, Austria, Japan and throughout the United States.
“We are thrilled that Heart of a Servant is now available to stream so more people will come to know the story of this future saint,” said Rob Kaczmark, president and CEO of Spirit Juice Studios, who served as an executive producer of the film. “Father Flanagan’s steadfast commitment to providing a safe upbringing and bright future for thousands of at-risk children is an inspiring example that still resonates today.”
Father Flanagan gained influence and admiration over the course of his life from presidents, CEOs, celebrities and more, in the U.S. and as far as Germany and Japan, but none mattered more to him than that of the children for whom he tirelessly worked. A sobering reminder of this was during World War II, as Flanagan saw droves of former Boys Town citizens go off to war. In fact, so many former Boys Town boys named Father Flanagan as their next of kin that the American War Dads Association named him as America’s No. 1 War Dad.
He was named a “Servant of God” by the Archdiocese of Omaha on March 17, 2012, the first step in the canonization process for the Catholic Church to declare him a saint. Father Flanagan was a hero for his times, and for ours, as well: his approach to child welfare remains a top influence in the field, and his frequent outspokenness against injustice showed he was always willing to tell the truth, regardless of risk.
For more information on the film, visit: https://www.fatherflanaganfilm.com/
To view on Amazon Prime, visit:
https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Heart-of-a-Servant-The-Father-Flanagan-Story/0U6DE3Y6LO546T34HN0OI9NBGO