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Camp Out on DVD
CAMP OUT, the documentary about The Naming Project Summer Camp, is set to release on DVD on August 5. Bookstores and DVD places should have it available starting on that day. You can put Camp Out as a part of your Netflix cue. If you wish to order a copy of Camp Out, visit an on-line bookstore like here .
Camp Out on Television
CAMP OUT, the documentary about The Naming Project Summer Camp, continues to run occasionaly on LOGO (MTV Network's channel devoted to GLBT programming).Logo also is streaming Camp Out online, because not everyone has Logo.
www.logoonline.com will have information you can search through to find the streaming video.
More About Camp Out
The Naming Project is proud to announce the release of the film, Camp Out, a feature documentary film that follows ten Mid-Western teenagers as they attend the first occasion of The Naming Project Summer Camp in August of 2004. This camp is a program of The Naming Project, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In 2004, in addition to launching the first ever gay Christian church camp, The Naming Project allowed a film crew from Evolution Films, from Los Angeles, CA, to document the experience and turn it into a documentary for a wider audience. The campers all came from Minnesota and Wisconsin to participate in the camp. All of the campers and their parents agreed to the documentation and allowed themselves to be recorded for the documentary.
According to Kirk Marcolina, one of the film’s directors, “For these [kids], it’s just as hard to come out as Christian as it is to come out as gay. They’re caught in the battle between religion, politics and sexuality that’s raging in the United States today. But the kids who attend this camp have refused to turn their back on God and instead are struggling to find a way to be true to both their spirituality and their sexual identity… to be the whole person God intended them to be.”
The Naming Project staff is very excited about the film, Pastoral Director Jay Wiesner said, “What is amazing to me is that the two directors were able to take all of the footage they shot at our camp and create a compelling movie that tells a story of struggle and determination. Without any real tricks of splicing and dicing that many film crews resort to they were able to capture something captivating and relevant in today's society where it is seemingly scandalous to put the words ‘Christian,’ ‘gay,’ and ‘youth’ together. These two directors accomplished this daunting task with grace and dignity.”
Camp Out had its premiere at the Melbourne (Australia) Queer Film Festival March 2-12, 2006. Then, it ran at the Cleveland International Film Festival March 17-26, 2006, and will run at two other Australian film festivals later in the year. It has been entered in approximately 30 film festivals for 2006. For more information about showings of Camp Out, refer to the film web site at www.campoutmovie.com or The Naming Project’s web site at www.thenamingproject.org.