Brooklyn boy Joe Campo is an award-winning film producer and the
younger brother of Sal Campo, a veteran TV and film distributor.
Together, they are working on Joe's latest project, The Human
Experience, an 85-minute docudrama about life's uplifting moments
from such varying points of view as lost children in Peril, homeless
people in New York and leprosy victims in Ghana. "Misery is not the
point," explained Joe Campo. "Faith, love and forgiveness, is.
Material things are not important to these people, because they have
none. However, reliance, hope and God are very important. They
don't have happiness, but they do have joy."
The movie was produced in-house in conjunction with the Franciscan
Friars of the Renewal for which Joe runs a home for "young men who
need a second chance." Sal Campo is currently tasked with searching
for a distributor for DVD, television and, possibly, theatrical
distribution for the film.
This is Joe Campo's 11th film, but the first full-length
feature since his 19-year stint at running the House for the Friars.
Joe's 25-year old son, Michael, wrote the script. Since the
film's overhead costs were kept low, "the money all went into
the look, which gives it a high-budget feel," commented Joe.
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