{"id":103246,"date":"2017-05-20T03:39:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T07:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=103246"},"modified":"2017-05-20T03:39:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T07:39:38","slug":"pope-francis-to-be-profiled-in-wim-wenders-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/20\/pope-francis-to-be-profiled-in-wim-wenders-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis to be profiled in Wim Wenders&#8217; documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90971\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13620120_603010019874283_7054304513404531378_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90971\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13620120_603010019874283_7054304513404531378_n.jpg\" alt=\"In a first for the Vatican, Pope Francis has participated in a documentary that producers tout as \u201ca historic nonfiction film.\u201d (Photo: Pope Francis\/Facebook)\" width=\"660\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13620120_603010019874283_7054304513404531378_n.jpg 660w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13620120_603010019874283_7054304513404531378_n-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a first for the Vatican, Pope Francis has participated in a documentary that producers tout as \u201ca historic nonfiction film.\u201d (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/140900652751891\/photos\/a.147197238788899.1073741826.140900652751891\/603010019874283\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Pope Francis\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CANNES, France \u2014 In a first for the Vatican, Pope Francis has participated in a documentary that producers tout as \u201ca historic nonfiction film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Focus Features announced Friday at the Cannes Film Festival that it has acquired worldwide rights to \u201cPope Francis &#8211; A Man of His Word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film, directed by Wim Wenders, is a co-production with the Vatican. It&#8217;s only the second time the Vatican has collaborated with outside filmmakers and the first to grant direct access to a pope.<\/p>\n<p>Producers said Wenders&#8217; film features Pope Francis responding to questions from around the globe and discussing ecology, immigration, consumerism and social justice.<\/p>\n<p>Wenders, the German filmmaker of the angels-on-Earth classic \u201cWings of Desire,\u201d was granted several lengthy audiences with the pope for the film.<\/p>\n<p>No release date was announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANNES, France \u2014 In a first for the Vatican, Pope Francis has participated in a documentary that producers tout as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[2300],"class_list":["post-103246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-pope-francis","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}