..Gary Dretzka
..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..R.J. Matson
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Michael Wilmington

September 18, 2006

For Immediate Release:

Hi there,

Last Friday marked the limited release of "Jesus Camp," Magnolia Pictures’ new, controversial documentary. The film follows children at an Evangelical summer camp, as they hone their prophetic gifts and are schooled in how to take back America for Christ. In response to the feedback from some Evangelical leaders, Eamonn Bowles, President of Magnolia Pictures, has release the following statement:

“We’re frankly surprised and a little disheartened by the efforts of prominent members of the evangelical community to clamp down on JESUS CAMP. Whether or not the children and camp depicted in the film represents the ‘mainstream’ of the Evangelical movement is beside the point: they exist, the film documents them, and the subjects feel they’ve been treated fairly. Why a community that’s so quick to attack discrimination from secular Americans would then turn and do the same to other Evangelicals is unexpected, to say the least.”

--Eamonn Bowles, President of Magnolia Pictures

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