Seeking Beauty is a new original documentary series from EWTN Studios, in partnership with Digital Continent and an association with Novo Inspire and Sacred Arthouse, that invites the audience to experience Italy through the transformative language of beauty — not simply as an artistic ideal, but as a pathway to encountering the divine.
Hosted by actor, director, and producer David Henrie, widely recognized for his role in Wizards of Waverly Place and for his recent faith-centered filmmaking, the series breaks away from the conventions of traditional travel programming. Rather than positioning the host as an authoritative guide, Seeking Beauty presents Henrie as a fellow traveler — curious, reflective, and discovering each destination with the viewers.
“We wanted to flip the script,” Henrie explains. “Not an expert explaining everything, but someone discovering alongside the audience. Beauty — with a capital ‘B’ — is the language of the divine and a reflection of God.”
Filmed entirely on location throughout Italy, the first season journeys across Vatican City, Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, and Subiaco. Each episode explores these places not simply as celebrated landmarks, but as living crossroads of spirituality, craftsmanship, culture, and faith. From art restoration studios preserving the world’s most treasured masterpieces to kitchens where culinary traditions are passed down through generations, the series captures beauty as something both timeless and profoundly human.
Rather than showcasing Italy as a static gallery of historic sites, Seeking Beauty focuses on the creative processes that sustain beauty in the present: the artisans restoring frescoes brushstroke by brushstroke, composers interpreting sacred music, chefs honoring centuries-old recipes, and spiritual communities anchoring daily life in devotion. The result is a portrait of Italy where beauty emerges not only from finished works of art, but from the patient labor and prayer behind them.
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One of the series’ most moving moments centers on the close observation of a Caravaggio restoration, an encounter that reveals the artist’s vulnerabilities alongside his genius. The restoration process becomes a visual metaphor for the spiritual life itself — layered, imperfect, yet always moving toward renewal and transcendence.
Produced by EWTN Studios, in partnership with Digital Continent and an association with Novo Inspire and Sacred Arthouse, Seeking Beauty represents one of the network’s most ambitious cultural storytelling projects to date, merging cinematic travel documentary techniques with theological reflection. The series presents beauty not as ornamentation, but as an essential language of faith — capable of directing the soul toward truth, goodness, and God.
With its immersive cinematography, intimate storytelling, and contemplative pace, Seeking Beauty offers a new vision of travel filmmaking — one that invites viewers not only to visit beautiful places, but to see the world itself as a reflection of divine creativity.
A second season set in Spain is currently in production, extending the series’ exploration of sacred beauty across Europe and broadening its global mission.
Seeking Beauty streams exclusively on EWTN+ beginning January 2026, bringing audiences worldwide a visual pilgrimage that celebrates beauty as one of the enduring pathways to encounter the transcendent.
