Sacred Heart plays vital role in movie filmed in Augusta

Gary Mazeffa wanted a cathedral when shooting his film “Asherah: A Love Odyssey.”

“We spent four to five months looking. We went to church more than some people do in a lifetime,” said Mazeffa, the film’s writer and producer, who is in town this weekend for a private screening of the film at Sacred Heart.

He started scouting locations on the West Coast but turned his attention to Atlanta. A meeting with Film Augusta’s Jennifer Bowen at the American Film Market led him to Augusta’s Sacred Heart Cultural Center.

“As soon as we walked in, we were sold,” he said…

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