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	CBC.ca - Arts - Film - A First Look at Karla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Film festivals have long been sacred points of distribution for filmmakers, thought to be bastions of integrity where taboo or unpopular subjects could be broached without fear of censorship.
		A superficial reading of the film indicates that Homolka was the victim of a misogynistic, serial-raping and -killing husband, a battered wife who could not escape the clutches of her violent, wildly manipulative mate, a woman so engulfed in fear that she was somehow forced into complicity with his crimes.
		The entire film is told in flashback; Homolka describes to a psychiatrist how she met Bernardo and what happened over the years.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/film/karla.html (2004 words)

	Karla Homolka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karla Leanne Homolka, also known as Karla Leanne Teale, born May 4, 1970 in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian woman who attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of helping her husband rape and murder teenage girls, including her own sister.
		Later that night Karla confessed to her aunt and uncle that Paul was the Scarborough Rapist and that she and he were involved in the rapes and murders of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French.
		The film was to premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival on (August 26 to September 5 2005) but on August 4th, 2005, it was announced that Karla would not be shown at the film festival because of the level of controversy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karla_Homolka (4223 words)

	Encyclopedia: Karla (film) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The film is based on the true story of two of Canada's most notorious and reviled serial killers, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka in the 1990s.
		Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo on their wedding day Paul Kenneth Bernardo (he later assumed the name Paul Teale) (born August 27, 1964 in Scarborough, Ontario) is a Canadian serial killer, known for the murders he committed with his wife Karla Homolka.
		The film has caused significant controversy in Canada, where the families of the victims, Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, have alleged that the film is exploiting the memory of their daughters.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Karla-%28film%29 (899 words)

	The IFC Blog
		The "Karla" controversy continues in Canada, where the Karla Homolka biopic was dropped from the Montreal World Film Festival (where it was supposed to have its world premiere) after protests over the film's subject matter lead to several of the festival's sponsors threatening to pull funding.
		Like the "Casuistry" protesters, none of those taking issue with "Karla" (which, judging from the trailer, is hardly high art) have actually seen the film, which is still in post-production.
		Karla Homolka was released weeks ago from a Montreal penitentiary and was planning to move to a district of Montreal that rejected her with a fllist of sorts spearheaded by the mayor of that district.
	ifcblog.ifctv.com /ifc_blog/2005/08/too_soon.html (403 words)

	Karla Hits Theaters This Fall - Hollywood North Report
		The Canadian Press is reporting that the families of Karla Homolka's victims will not fight the release of a Hollywood movie chronicling the depraved crimes of Canada's most notorious female offender, their lawyer stated Wednesday.
		The film, entitled Karla, and due in theatres this fall, tells the sordid tale of Homolka's life with Paul Bernardo and the horrific crimes their ill-fated union would ultimately produce.
		The film's release follows months of Homolka, 35, dominating headlines in Canada - a media frenzy that saw journalists camp outside a Montreal-area prison for days awaiting her July 4 release.
	www.hollywoodnorthreport.com /article.php?Article=1931 (696 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - FFM: Final countdown
		Whether it was just too many films spreading the crowds thin or an actual decrease in the number of bodies willing to cue up, attendance did not appear to match that of years past.
		Films like Dutch filmmaker Pieter Kuijpers' Off Screen, which won the FFM Grand Prix of the Americas for best film, is exactly the kind of film that is going to find its way onto art house screens, maybe even mainstream ones.
		I think the film selections were unimpressive to mediocre, I think it was the most shocking and upsetting decision to pull the plug on Karla.
	www.hour.ca /film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=7097 (1653 words)

	The Planet - "Karla" (aka "Deadly")
		Pic is a re-enactment of the misdeeds of husband-and-wife convicted murderers Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.
		The original title of the film was "Deadly," and the lawyer for the victim's families calls the name change a bid to raise publicity and find a distributor.
		"Karla" producer Michael Sellers says the filmmakers have gone out of their way to be sensitive to the families' concerns and have invited Danson and the families to pre-screen the film and provide their input.
	www.bluetights.net /theplanet/showthread.php?t=4530 (367 words)

	P.O.V. - Big Enough . Film Synopsis \| PBS
		Karla knows that she has a 50% chance of giving birth to another little person.
		But Ron and Sharon, like the other little people in the film — and it is one of the important updates in "Big Enough" — can't help but reflect that adulthood, more than childhood, tests the mettle of little people.
		The film discovers the humor, grace, frustration, confusion and anger with which one group of little people has, with inspiring success, faced these challenges.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2005/bigenough/about.html (1307 words)

	Films Can Be Memorable, For All the Right Reasons -- Jason Menard
		While some will dismiss the arrival of the film Karla as just another sign of Hollywood profiteering and sensationalism, the fact of the matter is that films of this ilk can actually serve a positive role by forcing us to remember society’s ill – and vow to never let them be repeated.
		The announced release date of Karla closely follows the DVD release of the Quebecois film Aurore, which is a heart-wrenching remake based on the true story of a young girl who was systemically tortured and eventually beaten to death by her step-mother.
		When it comes to the Karla film, we’ll have to wait to see if the parties involved chose to make a quick buck by profiting on a dynamic story, or if they lived up to the potential that the medium has to make a difference in our lives.
	www.menardcommunications.com /Lifestyle/film.htm (978 words)

	Karla Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		The movie uses this dramatic conceit to flesh out the details of Karla's life, beginning in 1990 when she is 17 years old and meets the 23-year-old Paul for the first time in the bar of a Toronto hotel.
		Karla, who has stood by Paul all this time because she wants to make him happy, starts imagining what it would be like to leave him, and she assumes that he would kill her if she left.
		Indeed, the movie—at least until the very end—portrays Karla as a battered wife, a victim of her sick husband's abuse, and not the sociopath she was in real life.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=143502&LF=RLC (969 words)

	KARLA - News
		Karla Homolka has turned down an offer by CBC-TV in Quebec to appear on a wildly popular Sunday night talk show in which guests are paraded before a cheering live audience to a musical number before being kissed on both cheeks by the host.
		Karla Homolka, 35, was secretly spirited from prison Monday after serving 12 years for the rapes, torture and murders of three teenage girls, including her younger sister.
		When Karla Homolka is released this July, she will represent a rarity in the Canadian judicial system: she will have served her complete sentence to the day and will be a completely free woman.
	karlathemovie.net /news.htm (5910 words)

	TV WEEKEND; A Friendship Blossoms on Death Row - New York Times
		Like the book, the film is only tangentially about the death penalty; it is front-and-center about how this unlikely friendship helped Beverly come through her grief, and it is best when it follows her through harrowing emotional turns.
		When she begins to visit Karla Faye, it is both a worrisome fixation and a way of emerging from a deep, lonely depression.
		Both zoom by the issue of Karla Faye's religious conversion, which was so much a part of the high-profile, last-minute campaign to save her life.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E1DF1331F932A35750C0A9649C8B63 (867 words)

	Christian Movies at ChristianCinema.com
		Her first independent feature, Karla Faye Tucker Forevermore, is the story of a woman who finds the love and forgiveness of God as she awaits execution on death row.
		Karla becomes a media giant, a poster girl for Christian restoration and Texas' worst nightmare as the first woman to be executed in over 100 years.
		It is possible to make films that resonate with both the church and the world, and it was great to see that happen with this film.
	www.christiancinema.com /lists/newsletters/amazing_karla.html (2786 words)

	Buffalo News - Canada greets 'Karla' with outrage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Karla Homolka served 12 years in prison and was released last summer amid a storm of public opposition.
		The film, which stars Laura Prepon, who currently plays Donna on "That '70s Show," and Misha Collins, is expected to open later this year in Buffalo, which close but emotionally more distant" from the case.
		"Karla" is based largely on transcripts of an in-depth psychiatric interview Homolka underwent eight years into her prison term.
	www.buffalonews.com /editorial/20060121/1068289.asp (645 words)

	deadly \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Karla is a 2006 American motion picture drama and thriller.
		The film is based on the true story of two of Canada's most notorious and reviled serial killers, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka in the 1990s.The film was originally titled Deadly, but was renamed Karla before its release.
		The film has caused significant controversy in Canada, where the families of the victims, Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, have alleged that the film is exploiting the memory of their daughters.
	www.babylon.com /definition/deadly/All (381 words)

	Karla
		With Karla Homolka’s release last July, the rescinding of her court-ordered restrictions in December and her apparent application for a passport recently, there was huge interest in the media screening held in Toronto, January 16.
		Karla’s friends Molly and Dan Czehowicz (Tess Harper, Leonard Kelly-Young) seem as impotent as Bernardo is insatiable in their attempted rescue of the bruised and battered bride.
		Throughout Karla, the film-within-the-film notion is effectively used to both add variety to the images, and serve as the major threat of keeping Karla on the leash.
	www.jamesweggreview.org /reviews/filmdvdvideo/karla.html (923 words)

	Karla film premieres at fest in Montreal @ workopolis.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Karla film premieres at fest in Montreal @ workopolis.com
		Serge Losique, president of the film festival, said that no special arrangements have been made in case protesters or extra media arrive for the screening.
		The film stars Laura Prepon, from the television series That '70s Show, as Homolka and Misha Collins, noted for appearances in TV dramas 24 and ER, as Bernardo.
	aolcanada.workopolis.com /servlet/Content/qprinter/20050726/KARLA26 (299 words)

	Families step aside on Homolka film - Toronto Star 13OCT05
		While the film won't feature nudity or visual depictions of the murders of the teenaged girls, a DVD version to be released next spring will likely include deleted scenes such as clips of the movie version of Bernardo's trial and his relationship with Homolka, Sellers said.
		Karla was financed by a small group of individual investors and could generate as much as $7 million in foreign distribution rights in countries such as the U.K. and Australia and another $30 million in DVD sales and rentals, Sellers said.
		Karla, which stars Laura Prepon of the TV comedy, That `70s Show, was made for about $5 million, less than one-tenth the budget of some of today's large-scale Hollywood blockbusters, Sellers said.
	www.canadiancrc.com /articles/Tor_Star_Families_step_aside_Homolka_film_13OCT05.htm (751 words)

	GagWatch » TIFF over Karla
		Two versions of the film were submitted to the festival but - for reasons not made public - it didn’t select either for its line-up.
		In light of the reaction to its proposed showing of the film “Karla”, and the discomfort expressed by clients of its sponsors, MWFF organizers have decided against presenting the film at the Festival.
		Perversely, while Karla is too strong for Canadian sensibilities, Red Mercury - a film about three British-born Muslim fanatics who hold a restaurant to siege with a lethal bomb - is being shown, according to the BBC.
	www.pulpmovies.com /gagwatch/2005/08/tiff-over-karla (625 words)

	CTV.ca \| Montreal film festival cancels Homolka premiere
		Karla, set for release this fall, chronicles the ominous courtship of Homolka and Bernardo and their sordid murders of Ontario teens Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy in the 1990s.
		The film's website suggests the storyline is sympathetic to Homolka, who was released from prison in Montreal last month.
		The French and Mahaffy families have been assured by the film's producer, Michael Sellers, that an exclusive screening would be arranged for them in Toronto and that some of the film's more explicit scenes have already been edited out.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1123112088260_21/?hub=Entertainment (353 words)

	Karla (2006) - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		U.S. producers of Karla, a film based on the murder of two Canadian teenagers by Karla Homulka and Paul Bernardo in 1991 and 1992, say they were unprepared for the angry controversy that has erupted in Canada in advance of the film's opening on Friday.
		The Montreal Film Festival has caved into pressure from sponsors who had threatened to withdraw their funding if it went ahead with plans to premiere the movie Karla, a film about serial killer Karla Homolka, starring Laura Prepon (That '70s Show) in the title role.
		Meanwhile, Michael Sellers, the Hollywood producer of the film, expressed his willingness Tuesday to show the film to a lawyer for the families of the murdered girls, Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, and to other concerned citizens and members of the media.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0424938/news (895 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Karla
		In order to face down the anticipated controversy of the film's release, as well as (one imagines) to capitalize on any good words the film could generate, a battery of people involved with the film were on hand for us to interview.
		This is a post-mortem snuff film on a Hollywood budget with a TV sitcom starlet trying to prove she can do more than one part.
		Karla is a woman who was troubled and did anything that her abusive husband told her to do.
	www.hour.ca /film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=8169 (3870 words)

	Montreal festival snuffs killer film - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"In light of the reaction to its proposed showing of the film 'Karla,' and the discomfort expressed by clients of its sponsors, MWFF organizers have decided against presenting the film," the festival said in a statement.
		The producers of "Karla," which also stars Misha Collins ("24") as her husband, Paul Bernardo, had looked to Montreal as a launchpad for a fall theatrical release here.
		Earlier plans to release "Karla" in Ontario were postponed after a public outcry in the province where Homolka and Bernardo committed their crimes.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2005/08/04/montreal_festival_snuffs_killer_film?mode=PF (311 words)

	Arts News Canada: Film News
		Famed film critic Roger Ebert took a keen interest in Kwan's movie and was one of the first to sit down with her for an interview last weekend inside the Canada Lounge.
		The film was named: second runner up in the horror category; the most downloaded of all films posted; and placed in the Top 20 out of the 88 entries in the competition.
		Karla, which was shot in Los Angeles, is mainly set in St. Catharines, where the couple abducted and killed schoolgirls Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.
	www.artsnews.ca /FilmForm.html (11468 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Bernardo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Karla Homolka is released from prison after serving her 12-year sentence.
		Karla Homolka appears in a court in Joliette, Que., as prosecutors argue that restrictions should be placed on her freedom when she is released.
		Karla Homolka, 17, meets Paul Bernardo, 23, at a hotel restaurant in Scarborough, Ont. They have sex in their hotel room two hours later.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/bernardo (2766 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features > Karla Peterson: In the Air -- Documentary explores a film nut's ...
		Making its small-screen debut on the Independent Film Channel, "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession" is a documentary about a cable TV station that often did more for the art of film than the film business itself.
		In its attempt to tell the dual stories of Harvey and the Z Channel, Cassavetes' two-hour film hits some disjointed patches here and there, and while her use of film clips to help illustrate Harvey's mental meltdowns is too well-meaning to be cheesy, it comes very close.
		As the daughter of pioneering writer/director John Cassavetes, Xan Cassavetes is a born film lover, and her documentary does a wonderful job of showing media-saturated, cable-drenched, DVD-spoiled viewers how thrilling it was to invite friends over to see "Taxi Driver" or "Young Frankenstein" without cuts or commercials.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/peterson/20050509-9999-mz1c09karla.html (699 words)

	Film Festivals . com - People
		The film is an updated version of Athol Furgrad’s novel about a gangster named Tsotsi’s (meaning “thug” in the street language of the South African townships) transformation after discovering a baby in the back of a car he had just stolen.
		Film festival goers are the people who are getting the film out into the world.
		We South African filmmakers aspire to do good work in developing a film to be seen and abroad to strengthen an industry that once only made one or two films a year.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinfo&Cfg=news.cfg&news=general&text_id=28855 (1441 words)

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