The film industry doesn't have a creativity problem, it has a labor problem. Most movies get made the same way: find investors who want a return, keep the budget low by underpaying your crew, and call it "indie spirit." We're done pretending that's okay.

Christ Camp: 2005 is our first feature (think: 'Wet Hot American Summer' meets 'Saved'), a sharp, subversive, coming-of-age comedy set at a Christian summer camp in 2005. And we're making it the way films should've always been made. Fair wages. Child care on set. 8-to-10-hour shoot days. Profit shared with the people who actually built it. We're calling it Anti-Capitalist Filmmaking, and it means exactly what it sounds like. The goal isn't return on investment. The goal is to make something real, with real people, and treat them like they matter.

Here's what this campaign actually funds: the legal infrastructure that makes it all possible. We're setting up a nonprofit structure to access alternative funding pipelines where financial return isn't the point. That shift changes our entire equation. We're not beholden to investors. We're accountable to the story and the people telling it. That's not idealism. That's a business model built on different values.

Your contribution, whatever the size, helps us prove one thing: that you can make a real feature film, pay cast and crew a living wage, employ Midwest creatives, and still tell a story worth watching. If we pull this off, every indie filmmaker who comes after us has a blueprint. Support 'Christ Camp: 2005'. Help us show the industry what filmmaking looks like when people come first.