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Color My World with Love does what Hallmark does best: It shares an inspiring love story in which delightful characters overcome obstacles to find great love.
What's different about Color My World with Love is that it features two leads with disabilities: Lily D. Moore and David Desanctis.
Lily and David both live with Down Syndrome. They also share a love for acting. Lily has been on Never Have I Ever and Single Drunk Female, while David previously starred with Kristoffer Polaha in the feature film, Where Hope Grows.
Color My World with Love features two romances. Lily and David play Kendall and Brad, who have a deep affection and blossoming love for one another.
Erica Durance stars as Lily's protective mother, Emma, who has spent her life keeping Lily safe and free from pain. When Lily shows interest in Brad,...
Color My World with Love does what Hallmark does best: It shares an inspiring love story in which delightful characters overcome obstacles to find great love.
What's different about Color My World with Love is that it features two leads with disabilities: Lily D. Moore and David Desanctis.
Lily and David both live with Down Syndrome. They also share a love for acting. Lily has been on Never Have I Ever and Single Drunk Female, while David previously starred with Kristoffer Polaha in the feature film, Where Hope Grows.
Color My World with Love features two romances. Lily and David play Kendall and Brad, who have a deep affection and blossoming love for one another.
Erica Durance stars as Lily's protective mother, Emma, who has spent her life keeping Lily safe and free from pain. When Lily shows interest in Brad,...
- 6/11/2022
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
‘Color My World With Love’: Lily D. Moore & David DeSanctis on Groundbreaking Hallmark Movie (Video)
Lily D. Moore and David DeSanctis are bringing a groundbreaking love story to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. The actors star in Color My World With Love, premiering Sunday, June 12 — a story that centers the experiences of people with Down syndrome. In the movie, single mother Emma (Erica Durance) is fiercely protective of her daughter, 22-year-old Kendall, who Moore says is “independent and wants her mom to let her grow up.” Kendall is a talented artist who paints in the impressionist style. Her life changes forever when she meets Brad in a cooking class and they fall in love. Brad, as described by DeSanctis, is independent and responsible with a “good sense of humor and fun-loving.” Unlike Lily, he lives on his own and works in a T-shirt shop. Brad lost his parents in an accident years prior, which prompted longtime family friend Nic (Benjamin Ayres) to step in and help Brad when he needs it.
- 6/9/2022
- TV Insider
Hallmark is doing something truly unique with Color My World with Love.
It blends traditional and non-traditional love stories for a compelling romantic movie.
It highlights the changing tides within the Hallmark franchise, with more inclusive offerings to warm more hearts.
Lily D. Moore (Never Have I Ever), Erica Durance, Benjamin Ayres, and David DeSanctis (Where Hope Grows) star in Color My World with Love, a new original for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
The movie recently wrapped production for airing later this year.
"Everyone has a dream to fall in love and get married one day, even people with disabilities," said Lily D. Moore.
"I hope viewers take away that Color my World with Love is about painting your own story through your emotions and that we all have endless possibilities."
Kendall (Moore) is a talented artist with Down Syndrome who creates beautiful paintings in the Impressionist style that reflect the...
It blends traditional and non-traditional love stories for a compelling romantic movie.
It highlights the changing tides within the Hallmark franchise, with more inclusive offerings to warm more hearts.
Lily D. Moore (Never Have I Ever), Erica Durance, Benjamin Ayres, and David DeSanctis (Where Hope Grows) star in Color My World with Love, a new original for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
The movie recently wrapped production for airing later this year.
"Everyone has a dream to fall in love and get married one day, even people with disabilities," said Lily D. Moore.
"I hope viewers take away that Color my World with Love is about painting your own story through your emotions and that we all have endless possibilities."
Kendall (Moore) is a talented artist with Down Syndrome who creates beautiful paintings in the Impressionist style that reflect the...
- 4/15/2022
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries is diversifying its output with an upcoming romance movie set to feature two actors with Down syndrome making their leading debuts. As first reported by Et Online, Color My World With Love stars Never Have I Ever actress Lily D. Moore as Kendall, a talented artist with Down syndrome who creates beautiful paintings in the impressionist style that reflect the reality of her subjects as she sees them. Kendall’s life takes a turn after meeting Brad (David DeSanctis) in a cooking class, and romance begins to blossom. Kendall’s mother Emma (Erica Durance) is super protective of her daughter and has reservations about the new relationship. She doesn’t want Kendall to experience heartbreak, so she tries to slow things down. But with the help of Nic (Benjamin Ayres), a longtime family friend of Brad’s, Emma starts to accept that Kendall can make her own...
- 4/15/2022
- TV Insider
One of the most intriguing aspects of Where Hope Grows is also among the least important: Danica McKellar (that's Winnie Cooper to us mere mortals) and William Zabka ("Sweep the leg, Johnny!") play a married couple. The faith-based drama surrounding their tertiary relationship tells of a washed-up ballplayer whose unexpected friendship with a young adult living with Down syndrome yields many insights of the life-affirming variety. Writer-director Chris Dowling handles that worrisome premise with a more even hand than this genre's ill-advised predecessors, though Produce (David DeSanctis), the inspirational teen in question, is often reduced to a narrative device rather than a three-dimensional character. Calvin Campbell (Kristoffer Polaha) is a single fat...
- 5/13/2015
- Village Voice
Roadside Attractions and Godspeed Pictures have set a May 15 theatrical release for the 2014 Heartland Film Festival Audience Choice Award winner.
Calvin Campbell plays a baseball player who quit the pro leagues due to panic attacks and gets a chance at redemption when he befriends a young man with Down Syndrome.
McKaley Miller, David DeSanctis, Billy Zabka, Brooke Burns, McKaley Miller, Alan Powell and Danica McKellar also star.
Chris Dowling directed Where Hope Grows and Steve Bagheri produced alongside Simran Singh, Jose Pablo Cantillo and Milan Chakraborty.
Calvin Campbell plays a baseball player who quit the pro leagues due to panic attacks and gets a chance at redemption when he befriends a young man with Down Syndrome.
McKaley Miller, David DeSanctis, Billy Zabka, Brooke Burns, McKaley Miller, Alan Powell and Danica McKellar also star.
Chris Dowling directed Where Hope Grows and Steve Bagheri produced alongside Simran Singh, Jose Pablo Cantillo and Milan Chakraborty.
- 2/12/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Filmmaker Chris Dowling, an alumnus of the radio-tv-film program at The University of Texas at Austin, wrote and directed family drama Produce, which debuted at the Dallas International Film Festival last week. Although this film deals with some heavy-hearted issues, overall Produce is an engaging and entertaining story that should please viewers.
The opening sequence of a morning routine of breakfast, shower and a bike commute to work at first appears typical, until the camera angle widens and we see the character simply known as Produce (David DeSanctis), who has Down's Syndrome. It's this foundation that sets an important plot point for the film -- Produce is not defined by his condition despite the challenges and prejudices that he faces daily. He wants nothing more than to be employee of the month at the Value Market where he works as a produce clerk. Sadly his manager and co-workers don't respect him or appreciate his strengths.
The opening sequence of a morning routine of breakfast, shower and a bike commute to work at first appears typical, until the camera angle widens and we see the character simply known as Produce (David DeSanctis), who has Down's Syndrome. It's this foundation that sets an important plot point for the film -- Produce is not defined by his condition despite the challenges and prejudices that he faces daily. He wants nothing more than to be employee of the month at the Value Market where he works as a produce clerk. Sadly his manager and co-workers don't respect him or appreciate his strengths.
- 4/17/2014
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
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