Camp Outgoes inside.Goth girls, overweight former drug addicts, and Elvis fans are not the kinds of people one would associate with a Bible camp. But that's exactly the crowd that populates Camp Out, a new documentary about a camp for gay Christian youths. The film, produced and directed by the out filmmaking film·mak·ing n. The making of movies. team of Larry Grimaldi and Kirk Marcolina, attempts to answer the question of whether young gay Christians can ever reconcile their faith with their identity. That's a question the filmmakers had a very personal stake in. "Growing up, it was a lot harder for us to come out because we both had very strong Catholic upbringings," says Grimaldi. "It's really scary to feel God is not there for you because you're gay." Though these issues are explored in the film, the result is actually a set of wonderfully funny, uplifting, and campy coming-of-age stories rather than a serious religious diatribe di·a·tribe n. A bitter, abusive denunciation. [Latin diatriba, learned discourse, from Greek diatrib . The film documents the experience of 10 teens, including Thomas, a magnetic 18-year-old who chants to Jesus twice a day; Christine, 16, a devout de·vout adj. de·vout·er, de·vout·est 1. Devoted to religion or to the fulfillment of religious obligations. See Synonyms at religious. 2. Displaying reverence or piety. 3. inept loner loner Psychiatry A single young man estranged from society and family, who suffers from psychogenic pain, and tends to live 'on the edge', vacillating between aggression and depression; loners often have unrealistic goals, but are unable to work towards those goals ; and Scancy, 17, a bisexual bisexual /bi·sex·u·al/ (-sek´shoo-al) 1. pertaining to or characterized by bisexuality. 2. an individual exhibiting bisexuality. 3. pertaining to or characterized by hermaphroditism. 4. punker who comes to camp questioning her religion. One of the film's most interesting story arcs is the developing friendship between Tim, 15, an often-depressed recovering drug addict Any individual who habitually uses any narcotic drug so as to endanger the public morals, health, safety, or welfare, or who is so drawn to the use of such narcotic drugs as to have lost the power of self-control with reference to his or her drug use. , and Jesse, 17, the great-looking popular boy whom everyone has a crush on--including Tim. "[All of the kids] are being the people God intended them to be instead of what others think they should be," says Grimaldi. "And they accept and respect that." For information on screenings of Camp Out, visit www.campoutmovie.com. |
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