"If people want to read an agenda into it, that's their prerogative,"

Film's screening to benefit local maternity home

The makers of indie flick "Bella," about a young, pregnant waitress and her fallen friend, insist it doesn't carry an anti-abortion message. The film is about redemption, they say.

At the same time, they're encouraging churches, Christian organizations and other groups nationwide to promote the film, and the groups are driving ticket sales.

In Bakersfield, St. Gianna's Maternity Home will offer a private screening. It's selling tickets to a Friday night showing at the Fox Theater, with proceeds benefiting the pregnant women's home. "Bella" also opens Friday at UA East Hills Mall 10.

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Co-writer and co-producer Leo Severino thinks of "Bella" as an inspirational film about a guy "who lost it all, but in losing it all he finds everything that matters in life."

It "just so happens," he said, that anti-abortion activists have gotten behind the film. It would break his heart, he added, if pro-abortion viewers turned away from the film.

http://www.bakersfield.com/calendar/go_do/story/285437.html

Anyone else hear about this movie or seen it?? Was a feature story in our local rag today.

edited to add, here is the trailer:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/bella/trailer/

Looks like a normal love story to me...