Noëlle is a 2007 drama film written, produced, and directed by David Wall who also stars as Father Jonathan Keene, a Catholic priest who comes to a small American fishing village in the Christmas season to shut down a dying parish, only to experience a personal transformation as he encounters the eccentric townspeople.

Shot on location on Cape Cod, Noëlle was originally produced under the title Mrs. Worthington's Party by Volo Films (David Wall's production banner) and won two awards at the 2006 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival for Best Director and Best American Indie 1st Runner Up.

[1] Father Jonathan Keene goes to a small fishing village a week before Christmas to shut down a dying parish.

Keene counters that she believes in evolution, that billions of years ago, a single cell developed into a fish, then an amphibian, then dinosaurs, mammals, apes, and finally humans--all by pure chance.

Only a couple of people turn up to perform the Nativity and they tell Keene that there's no point in doing it and leave to go to Mrs. Worthington's Christmas party like everybody else.

At the party, Keene sees Seth flirting with another woman, and gets into a fight with him, ending up with a deep gash on his cheek.

Grace, Marjorie's daughter, whom Keene presumably adopted after marrying her mother, plays the part of the angel announcing to the shepherds.

Writer-producer-director-actor David Wall drew inspiration for Noëlle when he was living on Cape Cod where an annual Christmas party was held at an "old whaling captain's house" that was "down the street" from Wall's home where people from varying socio-economic-religious backgrounds gathered, "celebrating one thing -- Christmas."