If you haven't heard, there is a new pro-life movie coming out on October 26th called Bella. It's about a Latino couple who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant; it recounds the choices that they face and the impact it has on their lives. Believe it or not it won the Toronto Film Festival out of thousands of films! That is really amazing. All sorts of miracles and conversions were elicited by the film during its filming, from the mundane (a scene that had to be filmed with no delay and had to be filmed in clear weather experienced an astonishingly localized break in a downpour) to the profound (the lead actor went to an abortion clinic merely to research his part and ended up saving a baby's life, who was then named after him). These are detailed in the recent Catholic Answers Live shows (Oct 1: ra, mp3; Apr 4: ra, mp3). This is a real effort to try to get solid values back into films, but without being preachy or overtly Christian. Obviously, the film has artistic value since it won the Toronto film festival!
It's opening in over 30 markets nationwide. It is critical though that we support it in the first two weeks since that is how a film is judged. Advertise this to all your friends and fellow parishioners! Promotional tools are available at bellaresources.com. Let's make a big push for this.
