By Kathy Schiffer, Catholic World Report - Alejandro Monteverde, the award-winning director of Sound of Freedom and Bella, had never heard of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini when he was offered the script for a biographical film about her ministry in the slums of New York... (after reading the script).. Monteverde was inspired, though, after learning about the life of Francesca Cabrini, a poor Italian immigrant nun who fought to overcome disease and poverty in the Five Points district of New York City... “I was shocked.. that I’d never learned anything about her. Her life was cinematic!”