Over the last two weeks submissions for the San Antonio Independent Film Festival and the $10,000 Jubilee Awards have been gracing the offices of Vision Forum Ministries. We have received submissions from experienced professionals, from film students, from amateur film makers, and from home educators. The most heartwarming submission letter arrived on my desk yesterday from eleven year old Caleb McLeod Young, a budding film script writer and film producer. Caleb put a film troupe together with other home educators in his community and together they created a short subject based on the wonderful tale of evangelism during the Civil War, entitled Christ in the Camp. Below is a copy of the letter he sent:
Thank you Caleb for making our day!
Dear Sirs and Madams:
Our movie, Christ in the Camp, was made by our home school history club, Homeschoolers Unfolding History, A Tar Heel Junior Historians Chapter. We produced it for the elementary decision media contest at the annual Tar Heels Junior Historians convention. It is being shown at the North Carolina Museum of History, though we still own it.
I wrote the script as a 10 year old (now 11) homeschooler. I directed the movie and another homeschooler my age served as cameraman. All actors were homeschool students, and all production was completed by elementary age students. Our costumes were assembled and made by our parents, and props were loaned by our families. We used a Sony Digital-8 home video camera and edited our work with Microsoft’s Movie Maker 2. Our budget was money from the sale of our previous movies, which amounted to about $80 which we shared with our older siblings’ movie! We used this to buy some hardware and software, as well as media to make the DVDs.
I chose this topic because I wanted to glorify God and I wanted to provide a good, wholesome movie that everyone and anyone could enjoy. The movie is based on the book, Christ in the camp, by Rev. Jones, Chaplain General of the Confederate Army. It tells the story of the revival in the Southern army as seen by Rev. Jones and his fellow chaplains.
I hope that you will enjoy this movie. It is clean, wholesome, without any swearing or immoral activities. We enjoyed making this movie and we hope that you will choose this as a winner.
In Christ’s name,
Caleb McLeod Young
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