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2007 Forbidden Lie$



Director/ Producer/ Writer:
Anna Broinowski (dir Helen’s War, Hell Bento!!; Sexing the Label)

Producer: Sally Regan, Liberty Productions

Co-Investors: Film Finance Corporation, SA Film Corporation, New South Wales Film and Television Office

Australian Distribution Company – Palace Films

100 min feature documentary.

In July 2004, Norma Khouri, best-selling author of Forbidden Love, was exposed as a fake. She’s won fame and fortune as a Jordanian virgin with a fatwah on her head for her campaign against honour killings. But she was really Norma Bagain, an alleged Chicago con artist on the run from the FBI for one million dollars of fraud.Spinning murder, greed and literary scandal into a web that entangles us all, Forbidden Lie$ is a real-life thriller for our time.


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