Just like her character Astrid does in the film, actress Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni created and sculpted the paper mache statues of the Saints, built all the pop-up books and made most of the charcoal drawings and murals.
Pasquale Moschella who plays Daniel, Astrid's child, made his own drawings and sewed together his 3 favorite stuffed toys.
In development and pre-production, Director Mariano Baino drew by hand over 400 pages of storyboards.
Zungolito is the "mascot" of ASTRID'S SAINTS. He was roaming the streets of Zungoli, where they filmed ASTRID'S SAINTS. Cataldi-Tassoni and Baino kept him on set and once filming was completed they adopted him, thus becoming the baby brother of Dreamer, who plays Belphegor in ASTRID'S SAINTS.
DREAMER, the dog that plays "Belphegor" in ASTRID'S SAINTS is a dog that actress Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni and director Mariano Baino saved as he was desperately roaming alone the mountains in Italy. They took him to New York City and little did he know he would fly back to Italy to become a movie star.