No Risk, No Gain: The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia has been accepted by two film festivals.

The documentary will be shown at the Pembroke Taparelli Arts and Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, this November and at the WPRN Women's International Film Festival in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, next May.

Directed and narrated by Sara McDermott Jain, the film allows the Sisters to explain, in their own words, what it truly means to be a Sister of Saint Francis of Philadelphia and why the world needs their legacy now more than ever. It was the featured film at the 2025 Neumann Inspires Film Festival.

Screenings of No Risk, No Gain are also scheduled for September 25 at 6:30 p.m. at Villanova University’s Mullen Performing Arts Center; September 27 at 10:30 a.m. in Neumann’s Meagher Theatre; and October 19 at 3 p.m. in Our Lady of Consolation Church Hall in Philadelphia.

Two years ago, Jain decided to tell the story of the Sisters, a 170-year-old order of Catholic nuns who founded Neumann University in 1965. The average age of those in the congregation is 84.

“I felt it was urgent to capture the stories in their own words,” says Jain, who was familiar with the Sisters through writing for Good News, the order’s magazine. “Here’s this group of people that has done so much good in the world. They are inspirational women with valuable lessons about how to live your life.”

Through the years since 1855, women in the congregation became hospital CEOs and college presidents, nursing professors and high school principals, always serving as champions of social justice for the poor and marginalized.