‘Little Pink House’ gets big response at Regal screening
Courtney and Ted Balaker wrote, produced and directed “Little Pink House,” while living in Redondo Beach. Photo In 2010, while living in Redondo Beach, Courtney and Ted Balaker formed Korchula Production with the goal of “Making important ideas entertaining.” Courtney was a theater and film director, and pregnant. Her husband Ted had been with ABC News for five years. Ted’s time at ABC News coincided with the buildup to Kelo vs. City of New London, a U.S. Supreme Court case involving eminent domain. Suzette Kelo was the leader of a tightly knit, low income, waterfront neighborhood whose homes were condemned by New London to make way for a Pfizer Pharmaceutical Viagra factory. Previously, eminent domain had only been used for acquiring property for public purposes, such as roadways and parks. The city contended that the factory served a public purpose because it would generate jobs and taxes for the economically depressed city. The Balakers made Kelo vs. New London the basis for their first feature film “The Little Pink House.” The film stars Catherine Keener (“Get out,” “Capote,”) as Kelo and Jeanne Tripplehorn (“Big Love,” “The Firm”) as the persuasive face of the Pfizer project…
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