In June, Christian film/TV company EchoLight Studios announced the CEO appointment of former senator/presidential candidate Rick Santorum. EchoLight is a Christian entertainment film and TV production company, co-founded two years ago by former missionary Bobby Downes, that already has eight low-profile releases under its belt. “We want the women who have two kids, who are soccer moms, who drive minivans and listen to the Fish Radio Network [contemporary Christian music stations],” Downes bluntly explained at the time. The next EchoLight title, The Redemption Of Henry Myers, was initially slated for release this month, but it’s apparently been postponed indefinitely in favor of The Christmas Candle.

The project was announced earlier this year, but yesterday the trailer dropped, reminding everyone of an important fact: Britain’s Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle is making her feature film debut in a Santorum-affiliated joint. Set in 1890, the adaptation of mega-selling Max Lucado’s novel is about a pastor experiencing a crisis of faith and a town candlemaker who’s visited by an angel. Boyle plays the church warden’s wife, and she also has a forthcoming Christmas album in which she’ll become the first person to posthumously “duet” with Elvis Presley on “O Come All Ye Faithful.” “I grew up listening to Elvis and to sing with him, well, I didn’t think it would be possible,” she said. “Isn’t technology brilliant?”

The Christmas Candle will easily be EchoLight’s highest-profile endeavor yet. “There are 328 churches in North America, with 70-100 people in each church, that’s a 90 million person reach,” Downes said back in June. “Hollywood cannot buy that network and we feel like that’s what Jesus did, through movies we are reaching out to people and making sure to take care of them.”

The film was shot in the U.K. and on the Isle Of Man, but EchoLight is a Dallas-based company. As explained in this interesting piece by The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Cary Darling, the Dallas-Fort Worth area is quickly becoming the location of choice for euphemistically titled “faith-based” entertainment companies, thanks to a large available pool of tech workers and the proliferation of mega-churches in the area, among other factors. “I’d like to see Dallas and Fort Worth be to faith and family entertainment what Nashville is to music,” Santorum told Darling. “It’s an alternative to the coasts.”

Here’s the trailer for The Christmas Candle, which opens November 22: