About the Filmmakers
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, directors of Jesus Camp.
Heidi Ewing
As the co-owner of the New York-based production company, Loki Films, Ewing has taken on a wide range of subjects that includes the inner workings of Scientology, ritualistic body piercing in Sri Lanka and the labyrinth that is the criminal justice system in the Bronx. Previously, she delved into the dramatic world of Cuban politics with Dissident, a film about the struggle of Havana-based Nobel Peace Prize nominee Oswaldo Paya - a film that was made clandestinely and has been shown around the world. She recently co-directed, the critically-acclaimed documentary feature, The Boys of Baraka.
Rachel Grady
The co-director of The Boys of Baraka, Grady is a private investigator turned filmmaker. She has produced and directed numerous non-fiction films for The Discovery Channel, A & E and Britain's Channel 4. She has directed several films that focus on mental illness including Mad Justice, a verité documentary that looks at the troubling fate of mentally ill parolees and Ward 2 West, shot on location at the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Hospital on New York's famed Ward's Island. She also acted as series producer for TX, an eight part series for VH1 filmed entirely in a drug rehabilitation center and is the co-founder of Loki Films.