Sunday, June 1, 4:00 PM
CCA Cinematheque
with S’mores and more!
“Heartwarming!”
IPop.com
“A wonderful film!”
San Francisco Beyond Chron
When comedian and filmmaker Katie Halper learned that Rush Limbaugh had helped expose her childhood camp as one with “Communist roots” indoctrinating campers with “extremist” ideology, she took note. Had she been brainwashed? Had her mother and grandmother, who went to the same camp, been brainwashed?
Halper decided there was only one way to find out, by going back to camp. Following four nine-years-old campers from the first day to the last day of camp,
Commie Camp reveals what really goes on at Camp Kinderland. We watch the children as they learn how to debate the problems facing the world, commemorate the Holocaust and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, play the World Peace Olympics, Kinderland’s alternative to other camps’ color wars, and have the times of their lives! As Katie guides us through this journey with humor and pathos, she shares her own memories of Kinderland and realizes how much it has shaped who she is and how relevant its values are today.
Underwritten by Gay Block
"Commie Camp" Trailer from
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Vimeo.

- Boston Jewish Film Festival,
- San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
- San Diego Jewish Film Festival