JESUS CAMP

DC Premiere

On the surface, Levi and Rachael are pretty typical young teenagers; they enjoy hanging out with their friends, listening to music, spending time in the mall, and going away to summer camp. Yet, unlike most American teenagers, they also consider themselves to be young soldiers in the "Army of God."

From SILVERDOCS 2005 award-winning filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (THE BOYS OF BARAKA) comes this extraordinary film about the newest generation of Christian evangelicals, and the parents, teachers, preachers, and counselors who are committed to inculcating them from the start with radical fundamentalist beliefs. The film exposes a startlingly sizeable generation of young kids growing up in a somewhat alternate-universe from mainstream culture. They are largely home-schooled and raised on a creationist curriculum, with extracurricular activities chiefly dedicated to converting non-believers.

Summers are spent at Becky Fischer's "Kids on Fire" camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where they make new like-minded friends, pray together, and gain inspiration from Fischer's hyperbolic sermons.

Often disregarded as extremist and marginal, this probing documentary reveals just how pervasive and potent this presumably "fringe" culture is, and the impact it may have-and has already had-on American politics.

-Sky Sitney

DIRECTOR BIOS
Heidi Ewing is the co-owner of the New York-based production company, Loki Films, and in that capacity has taken on a wide range of subjects including Scientology and ritualistic body piercing in Sri Lanka. She delved into Cuban politics with DISSSIDENT, a film about Nobel Peace Prize nominee Oswaldo Paya. She recently co-directed the widely-acclaimed documentary feature THE BOYS OF BARAKA with Rachel Grady.

Rachel Grady is a private investigator turned filmmaker. She has produced and directed numerous non-fiction films for American and British television. She has also directed several films that focus on mental illness, including WARD 2 WEST which was shot on location at the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Hospital on New York's famed Ward's Island. She is the co-founder of Loki Films.

Print Source:
Loki Films
New York, NY 10013
212.343.8900
rachel@lokifilms.com

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