Reviews and Comments on Taylor Camp

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Rose on the beach

“Thank you so much for giving me back the very best experiences of my life and allowing me to share the magic of that time and place with the world. You have blessed us with the most wonderful gift.”  -- Francine Pearson (Taylor Camper)

“Deeply personal, Taylor Camp documents a time and place on Kauai that some reviled, some adored. The film itself is naked, taking on the dark side of Taylor Camp as well as the sweet memories of golden days, great surf & good friends.” -- Lee Cataluna, Honolulu Advertiser

“Impressive! A real time capsule of an era and a place - humane and atmospheric - and news to most people. I love the Before and After faces and bodies, and the theme of violated Eden, or After the Fall...”-- Paul Theroux, Author of Great Railway Bazaar, Mosquito Coast, & many others

“Taylor Camp is an amazing true story about a group of people that lived life without a care in
the world. The cinematography is breathtaking. It will leave you smiling and dreaming.”
   -- Jacob Liberman, Author of Light: Medicine of the Future

“A cinema masterpiece, Taylor Camp chronicles a time, like now, when we were mired in an
unpopular war. It’s a living document of an extraordinary social experiment and the age-old
clash between generations. This film will stay with you long after you leave the theater.”
   -- Paul Janes-Brown, Maui Weekly

“Taylor Camp is terrific! You know a film will take you somewhere special when it opens with "In a Gadda Da Vida" then takes you on a visual & musical journey to a magical place in time that so many of us still long for. I didn't want it to end.”   -- Blaise Noto, Unit Publicist, The Kite Runner

*****

A story about a jungle tribe of kids living on the beach at the "end of the rainbow" - Hanalei, Kaua'i, circa 1969-77, it was one of the most moving films
I've seen in a loooog time. The great photography, the great music, and the great story, knocked it out of the ballpark; a film that will stay with you
for days! I LOVE THIS FILM!!! -- Hulagirl
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Taylor Camp is the best documentary I’ve seen. I was touched by the “then” in still photographs and the “now” in recent interviews. I laughed and cried.
What more can a person want? I wanted it to go on and on! -- Liz W
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Taylor Camp captured the very ‘essence’ of a subculture in survival mode of that time. I know, because I lived at Taylor Camp. I do believe it will
become a ‘cult film’. -- Jeannie MacGregor, Ontario Canada
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Taylor Camp beautifully captures the freedom and simplicity of the era with breathtaking photography and a retrospective look at the people who were
lucky enough to be a part of it. Well done! -- NANCY
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Saw it in Princeville last night....awesome film! This movie should win an award! -- Lee Witmer
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Thanks! Just a note to say how lucky my partner and I were to stumble upon a showing of Taylor Camp in Hilo. It was our last night on the island before flying back home to the mainland in the morning and we were looking for something to do with our evening after having an Italian meal at a restaurant up the street from the theater. This film is fascinating and really took me back to a time in my life when it did indeed seem that anything was possible. I was never a resident but like to think that I might have been had life led me in that direction. We bought a copy of the film and showed it to our baby-boomer polyamory community here in the Washington, DC area - everyone was touched and nostalgic about what life was like during that time. (Yeah, some of us really do identify as eutopian polyamorists.) -- Anita Wagner

***** MORE BELOW *****

“Who Knows Where the Time Goes?”
Written by Sandy Denny
Performed by Pamela Polland & John McFee