Bella the Movie

Robert Novak introduces us to a pro-life movie looking for screening space. "Bella" was a surprise winner of the People's Choice Award, voted on by audiences at the Toronto film festival:

''Bella'' was conceived by three young conservative Catholic Mexican men -- producer, director and lead actor -- who want to make movies removed from Hollywood's culture of sex and violence. Bankrolled by a Catholic Philadelphia family, they shot the film in 24 days in New York City.

The star is Eduardo Verastegui, a Mexican heartthrob as a performer in TV soap operas who now lives in Los Angeles. A devout Catholic, he told me he was tired of movies showing Latinos as disreputable and immoral. He has learned to speak English in three years well enough to play the lead role mostly in English (with subtitles over the Spanish).

Trailer here.