Description
"God's Will" is a biographical documentary project that will focus on Will Davis Campbell, a seventy-two-year-old Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and prize-winning author who has been called nearly everything from a modern-day Jememiah to one of God's divine fools. The sixty-minute profile will trace his cultural, political, and religious evolution, from early Mississippi folk culture and fundamentalism; through his Ivy league education; into his commitment to racial equality, which made him the only white included at the founding of the SCLC and a primary operative in all the major battles of the Civil Rights movement; to his return to embrace and include even members of the Ku Klux Klan in his ministry of forgiveness and reconciliation. This is a story about a man who defies stereotypes, a story about subtleties, commonalities, and shades of gray. Through Campbell's own observations and perspectives and those of both his colleagues and humanities analysts, the film will approach Brother Will's life as a vehicle for understanding the complexity, richness, and value of the Southern experience.
