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Campo Bros' uplifting film.

Video Age International • Nov-Dec, 2007 • World

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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