An Interview with Heidi Ewing, Co-Director of “Jesus Camp”
BY KEVIN CARR
Heidi Ewing is the co-director of the controversial new film “Jesus Camp.” Ewing talks about working with co-director Rachel Grady, finding their subjects and keeping objective in the process. Excepts from the interview follow.
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7M: WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO THIS PROJECT?
Our last film, The Boys of Baraka, is about a group of inner city kids from Baltimore who leave home and go to school in Africa, and it was out last year. One of the kids focused on was a 12-year old African American black Baptist preacher. And he was 12, and he was amazing – fire and brimstone. He was really into his church and really into prayer, and he was 12. And his sister who was raised in the same home didn’t feel that was. It was always something of interest to us to see a child with that kind of devotion. That was our initial inspiration, looking to do a film about kids who are really into their faith.
Once we found Becky Fischer and her ministry and then her camp, and the children who attend her camp and their families, I think it became a richer, more complicated movie that looked at how people raise their children with this very conservative world view and became a lot about the culture wars in this country.
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