Bella, whose star and producers are Knights, won the Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award.
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Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson, with the backing of the Order’s Board of Directors, is recommending that Knights support Bella, a major motion picture to be released Oct. 26.
Bella, whose star and producers are Knights, won the Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award.
“If we can get millions of people to see this film, we are going to save lives,” Anderson said. “We can get people to understand what we mean when we talk about a culture of life, or what it means to live a Catholic life. Our support of this movie can be the start of something great.”
In particular, councils are asked to pre-purchase tickets to showings of the film at local theaters during the first week of its release to the public throughout the United States beginning Oct. 26. These tickets can then be resold at face value to encourage people to view the film.
To pre-purchase tickets and receive a marketing tool kit, Knights should email kofc@bellathemovie.com. For further information on K of C involvement, please call Andrew Walther at 203-752-4253.
Groups of tickets will be sold to councils for no more than $12 each depending on the market.Because the film has a strong culture of life theme, Anderson said, councils could consider screening the movie and accepting donations to local pregnancy resource centers.
Bella was produced by Knights Leo Severino and Sean Wolfington, and stars Knight Eduardo Verastegui. Verastegui and Wolfington took their First Degree in New Haven at the June State Deputies meeting.
The state deputies and their wives also enjoyed a premiere showing of Bella.
The movie tells the story of Jose (Verástegui), who gives up his career as a soccer superstar after a tragic incident.
He goes to work in his brother’s restaurant, where he befriends a pregnant waitress and begins to resolve some of the pain he stills feel about the life-changing accident. A former telenovela (soap opera) star in his native Mexico, Verástegui abandoned his burgeoning Hollywood career to start a new film company to produce movies with a moral message.
After the screening, Verástegui spoke briefly to the Knights. He described his character as a “man who wants to live a life of integrity and sacrifice everything” for family and others. The film does this by portraying Latinos and family life in a favorable light.
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