Rory Feek Announces “To Joey, With Love” Film
“A full-length documentary film that begins the day I got out my camera a few weeks before Indiana was born in February of 2014 and runs up until this past spring.”
This is how Rory Feek described the upcoming documentary To Joey, With Love that is set to air at select theaters on Tuesday, September 20th for one night only. Rory announced the film on the latest installment of his This Life I Live blog, which he uses to regularly keep the world updated on the tragic story of his wife and singing partner Joey Martin Feek. Joey passed away from abdominal Cancer on March 4th.
“A film about our lives during that two-and-a-half years,” Rory Feek continues. “Our love. Our struggles. And even more so, about our faith in God and our hope in a plan… bigger than the one we can see with our own eyes.”
Rory makes the film sound like somewhat of a humble enterprise, with footage spliced together captured on consumer-grade recording devices. But the trailer for the film makes it look like so much more. During his wife’s health struggles, Rory Feek not only proved himself as a fighter, a sage, and a man of character, but an gifted storyteller, with an eye and understanding for arch and pentameter that few possess.
“Joey and I have a friend named Ben that runs Provident Films here in Nashville and like many others, he has been following our story and hurting and praying for us for the last year or so,” Rory explains. “When I shared some of the hundreds-of-hours of footage with Ben that I had been putting together the last couple months, he and his team offered to help turn that footage in to something greater than just a few small videos on the blog that I write. To turn it into a film.”
To Joey, With Love will premier just over a week after what would have been Joey Feek’s 41st birthday on September 9th.
“I just want to lift my bride up… and continue to tell her beautiful story, while Indy and I live out the new one that God is now writing. I am looking forward to spending the rest of this summer working on the film here at home (with Daniel and Aaron and Gabe and some other friends who are working on it with me)… and watching this story unfold. Again.”
June 16, 2016 @ 7:20 pm
Despite the pain, Joey must have felt like the luckiest lady in the world with Rory by her side. It takes some kind of man, and some kind of love to find the joy that he does from continuing to tell this story. When I see heartache take a backseat to love and admiration, it fills me with a hope that I so often struggle to find in this world. This man is the most realistically effective kind of hero. Imagine how different the world would be if we all had a Rory.
June 17, 2016 @ 2:21 am
Imagine how different the world would be if we all WERE a Rory… Or a Joey~ it is a two-way street, after all…
June 17, 2016 @ 4:46 am
Very true, but that’s exactly what I mean. If everyone HAD a Rory, then everyone would also have to BE one. Otherwise I would have to say “How different the world would be if half of us had a Rory”. I have no doubt that Joey filled that same role for him. Love like that could never be one-sided.
June 16, 2016 @ 8:07 pm
Going to be a great movie. I love the faith of those two. R.I.P Joey. They both are proof of way we all should live our life, simple and with God in the forefront.
June 17, 2016 @ 12:04 am
I’ll be prepared with a bag of Kleenexes on standby when this is released! ; __ ;
June 17, 2016 @ 7:47 am
There is not enough tissue in the world to get me through this movie. I’d need to wear a Camelbak to avoid severe dehydration.
June 17, 2016 @ 10:21 am
everyone will want to buy this when it comes out as a dvd or download, but I’m not sure I or anyone else will have the emotional strength / heart to watch this all the way through more than once.
June 17, 2016 @ 12:25 pm
Yeah, I’ll probably end up getting hit in the emotional guts by the time it’s over.
September 20, 2016 @ 12:31 am
Glendel, when I found out that Rory was making this movie and when the release date would be, I was on the site getting ready to buy my tickets. And then I stopped. I am one of those people who does not have the emotional strength to watch such a wonderful tribute to such wonderful people. I have admired Joey and Rory for a long time and I have read every word on Rory’s blog. I also have a daughter with Downs syndrome. When Joey passed away, I felt like everything that was good in this world turned to crap. I did not (and still do not) understand why God took such an amazing person away from her husband and baby. My faith has been shaken and I still do not get it. But maybe I am not suppose to get it. Sorry for the babble but I agreed with what you said.
June 17, 2016 @ 10:31 am
Good for Rory. At least all of the news outlets that were sucking his bandwidth and repurposing his content verbatim as their own can’t do that with the film version.
June 20, 2016 @ 12:37 pm
Hard to believe she’s gone. I have trouble watching the old Joey and Rory shows, I don’t think I could watch the movie, at least the last half. Loved those farming pictures and kid in a pumpkin suit, though.
Maybe I’ll just watch the first half and reimagine the ending.
September 20, 2016 @ 8:22 pm
Saw the movie loved it wondering if it will ever be on sale later
September 21, 2016 @ 7:00 am
This movie was absolutely amazing. I just bought tickets to the October 6 show. It was nothing like I even imagined. This was most definitely a true love story. You could see the love he had and still has for Joey. Perfect movie for a perfect couple. She never lost faith. RIP Joey Feek.
September 21, 2016 @ 9:14 am
I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS MOVIE!!!!!! My mother in law to be saw it on last night her in Benton, Arkansas. The theater was was packed and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house! It was such an encouragement to see how her faith never wavered. Rory, you and your family will always be in my prayers. I would absolutely love to have this on DVD!!! I honestly could watch it everyday! RIP Joey!!!!!
November 17, 2016 @ 12:38 am
I would Love to buy this movie…To Joey with love……
Please let me know how much and when I can purchase this movie..
I have many of their DVD …..and I watched there tv show….absolutely amazing…I feel like I lost my best friend…I still follow Indy and Rorys life..
God Bless