The
Making of Christmas, is a gentle, warm, witty, and poignant documentary, sensitively
exploring the Christmas story, reflecting on all aspects of the Greatest Story
Ever Told, the birth of Jesus in a humble stable, nestling in a manger and the hearts
of humanity.
Created
and Directed by Jim Hanon, produced by Jim Hanon and Michael Giardina, and
featuring Hazel Saint Ilme, Jacob Amber, Father Bernard Baris and Nataly
Benavidez.
This
is a story of Trevor (Trae Ireland) and Mia (Drew Sidora) meet at a karaoke bar
but although they connect it turned out he had a girlfriend.
The
next time they met he tried to pick her up again, but they drift into a
friendship and then try to defy the odds and prove to everyone that men and
women can be just friends.
The
result is a complicated journey for the pair, through ups and downs and failed
relationships, until they reach the ultimate conclusion, they were wrong.
Monica
(Maryam Basir) is a hopeless romantic, but she seems cursed with relationship
problems.
It
turns out she actually is cursed because womanizing father 30 years earlier, Young
Mike (Rob Gordon) mistreated the wrong woman Summer (B. Simone) on her 30th
birthday.
Thirty
years later the penny drops for her dad Mike McCoy (Michael Colyar) when he
realises he is responsible for his daughter’s heartbreak.
The
only way to break the curse him must apologise to all the women he let down
including Summer St. John (LisaRaye McCoy), but will he succeed before her
budding relationship with Eric Chambers (Kenneth Wayne) goes the way of all the
others.
Successful
Chicago real estate executive Janeen Davis (Lakiesha
Kingdom) has lived for her
work for the past three years, married to her career to be honest, and has no
time for love.
But
when her boss suddenly closes the office for Christmas, she decides to travel
home to Houston, Texas for the holidays with her
parents Mary and James (Shelly Rose and Curtis von Burrell).
She
basks in the warmth of her loving and funny family, meets up with old friends
and her old high school boyfriend Warren Thomas (Christopher
St. Mary) so will love blossom between them or will her friend from Chicago, Jason
(Devin Wilburn) turn up and ruin things.
Holly Day (Robinne Lee) is the Ebenezer
Scrooge character in this modern retelling of Charles Dickens' “A
Christmas Carol”.
Holly is a difficult and demanding Event Planner
who treats her assistant Melanie (Ashley A. Williams) terribly, and she is
visited before Christmas by the ghost of her old mentor Maddie Devereaux
(Margaret Avery), who scares her with tales of doom and warns her she will have
further visitations.
The first visitor is the ghost of Christmas Past,
her Teen self (Lindsay Diann), the second visitor is the ghost of Christmas
Present her assistant Melanie’s nanna Minnie (Ashley A. Williams) and the Ghost
of Christmas Yet To Come Joe (Ted Lange), who teach her the true meaning of
Christmas by revealing to her the truth about her own miserable existence, what
opportunities she wasted in her youth, and the dire fate that awaits her if he
does not change her ways.
Clarissa (Mary Fae Smith) left
home for college to pursue her art on the other side of the country.
When she returns home years
later, she is accompanied by fiancé Charles (Robert Walters). But when she is
home, she meets her first love, Thomas (Jeff Whitlatch), who she left behind.
So, she is faced with conflict
between her love for Thomas, Charles, and her life's passion, painting.
So, what will she choose?
Alice
Gloomgardy (Annie Abrams) and her two siblings Tommy and Charlotte (Jake McKenzie and Lindsey Payne) wait until
Christmas Eve morning to tell their father Hank (Bill
Kates) that
she won't be home for Christmas.
He
thought all his kids were coming home this year; now he must spend Christmas
alone so because the Gloomgardy family can't be
together on Christmas their dysfunctional family decides to hold a Gloomgardy
Zoom Party instead, including all of her wacky extended family.
However, her dad doesn't want to go unless she meets his 3 Christmas conditions, so will she be able to pull it off in less than 8 hours and perform a virtual Christmas miracle.
