{"id":819036,"date":"2026-08-19T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819036\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:30:09","slug":"soul-surfers-sean-mcnamara-to-direct-faith-based-film-blank-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819036\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Soul Surfer&#8217;s Sean McNamara To Direct Faith-Based Film &#8216;Blank Canvas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Reagan and Soul Surfer filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sean-mcnamara\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sean-mcnamara\" data-tag=\"sean-mcnamara\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean McNamara<\/a> is aboard to write and direct faith-based drama Blank Canvas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is based on the 2022 memoir of the same name by author, speaker, and artist Marcy Gregg. The project is currently in development under Brookwell\u00a0McNamara\u00a0Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe synopsis reads: \u201cAt the age of 30, Marcy Gregg experienced a serious medical complication during childbirth that resulted in the loss of 13 years of her memory. Faced with the challenge of rebuilding her identity, relationships, and faith, Gregg embarked on a deeply personal journey of healing and transformation that would ultimately shape her life\u2019s work and the message she shares with audiences today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film will be produced by David Brookwell and\u00a0Sean\u00a0McNamara, the longtime producing team behind Brookwell\u00a0McNamara\u00a0Entertainment, with\u00a0Will Crenshaw of Beaumont, Texas, serving as executive producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProlific filmmaker McNamara most recently directed biopics Soul On Fire, Reagan and Bau: Artist at War. His 2011 film Soul Surfer about Bethany Hamilton made close to $50M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Reagan and Soul Surfer filmmaker Sean McNamara is aboard to write and direct faith-based drama Blank Canvas.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,121517],"class_list":["post-819036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-sean-mcnamara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}