PORT ANGELES — A former Port Angeles resident-turned-movie producer hopes her latest film provides an uplifting experience for viewers.

“If you’re looking for meaning, why bad things happen to good people, this film explores those answers,” Cecelia Stevenson said.

Stevenson, 33, is a 2010 Port Angeles High School graduate who graduated from Texas A&M in 2014 and went into filmmaking.

Her first feature-length film premiered Monday in Dallas.

“It was awesome,” she said. “We held it at the University of Texas at Dallas; they have a very large theater on their campus in the arts building.”

The film, “The Triumph of the Heart,” is the true story of the last days of St. Maximilian Kolbe’s life.

“In the harrowing confines of Auschwitz’s starvation cell, Catholic priest St. Maximilian Kolbe

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