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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Magnolia Pictures
EAN: 0876964000628
Feature: Jesus Camp, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, directors of the critically acclaimed The Boys Of Baraka, follows Levi, Rachael, and Tory to Pastor Becky Fischer's "Kids On Fire" summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where kids as young as 6 years-old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in "God's army". The film follows these children at camp as they hone their "prophetic
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Magnolia
Languages: SpanishSubtitledEnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0
Manufacturer: Magnolia
MPN: MAGD10062D
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Magnolia
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Running Time: 87 minutes
Studio: Magnolia
Features:- Jesus Camp, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, directors of the critically acclaimed The Boys Of Baraka, follows Levi, Rachael, and Tory to Pastor Becky Fischer's "Kids On Fire" summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where kids as young as 6 years-old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in "God's army". The film follows these children at camp as they hone their "prophetic
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Product Description:
Controversial documentary about kids attending a theological summer camp. The filmmakers step back from the fray and let the subjects words speak for themselves. Some reviewers have held this up as an example of the religious far right brainwashing kids, calling it the scariest horror film of the year. Solid reviews and continued press should generate interest in seeing this film upon release.
Amazon.com:
The feverish spectacle of a summer camp for evangelical Christian kids is the focus of Jesus Camp, a fascinating if sometimes alarming documentary. (Shortly after its release, the movie gained a new notoriety when Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, who appears near the end of the film, resigned his post amid a male prostitute's allegations of drug use and sexual misconduct.) For most of the film, we follow a charismatic teacher, Becky Fischer, as she trains young soldiers in "God's Army" at a camp in North Dakota. Some of the kids emerge as likable and bright, and eager to continue their work as pint-sized preachers; elsewhere, the visions of children speaking in tongues and falling to the floor in ecstasy are more troubling. Even more arresting is the vision of a generation of children home-schooled to believe that the Bible is science, or Fischer's certainty that America's flawed system of democracy will someday be replaced by a theocracy. (In one scene, a cardboard cut-out of George W. Bush is presented to the children, who react by laying their hands on the figure as though in a religious procession.) Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady maintain neutrality about all this, maybe too much so (they throw in some interviews with radio host Mike Papantonio to provide a liberal-Christian viewpoint) and one would like to know more about the grown-ups presented here. Power broker Haggard is the creepiest person in the film, an insincere smooth talker whose advice to one of the young would-be campgoers comes across as entirely cynical. Time will tell whether the film's Christian soldiers will be marching onward. --Robert Horton
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