“Taylor Camp is the ultimate hippie fantasy retold three decades
later in a moving and magical documentary. Don’t miss it!”
-- Steven Petrow,
The Huffington Post
"Just got home from the Maui screening of Taylor Camp. I'm still aglow. Even stopping in Paia to shop and
eat, it wasn't hard to spot who had just come from the movie. You worked magic! It was like a contact high
by the end of the screening. People were just floating out of the theater. Yes, something indeed was
happening back in the day, on Kauai, and the world around. Your work and the feeling it evoked in the
theater this evening tells me that the seeds are still viable in many hearts. Great job!" -- Peter Kafka
"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
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 and John have blessed us with the most wonderful gift.
-- Francine Pearson (Taylor Camper)
"Taylor Camp is terrific. You
know a film is going to bring you somewhere special when it
opens with "In a Gadda Da Vida" and
from there takes you on a visual and musical journey
to a magical place in time that so many of us still long for. The choice in music couldn't be
better, and the directing and editing were superb -- I didn't want it to end." -- Blaise Noto
to a magical place in time that so many of us still long for. The choice in music couldn't be
better, and the directing and editing were superb -- I didn't want it to end." -- Blaise Noto
"Just got home from the Maui screening of Taylor Camp. I'm still aglow. Even stopping in Paia to shop and
eat, it wasn't hard to spot who had just come from the movie. You worked magic! It was like a contact high
by the end of the screening. People were just floating out of the theater. Yes, something indeed was
happening back in the day, on Kauai, and the world around. Your work and the feeling it evoked in the
theater this evening tells me that the seeds are still viable in many hearts. Great job!" -- Peter Kafka
"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
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 and John have blessed us with the most wonderful gift.
-- Francine Pearson (Taylor Camper)
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FILM SYNOPSIS In 1969, Howard Taylor, brother of actress Elizabeth, bailed out a rag-tag band of 13 young Mainlanders jailed on Kauai for vagrancy and invited them to camp on his oceanfront land in Haena. Soon waves of hippies, surfers and troubled Vietnam vets found their way to Taylor Camp and built a clothing-optional, pot-friendly tree house village at the end of the North Shore road. In 1977, after condemning the village to make way for a State park, government officials torched the camp – leaving little but ashes and memories of “the best days of our lives”. 1970s photos and rare historic footage reveal a community that rejected consumerism for the healing power of nature. The film tells the story of Taylor Camp’s seven-year existence through interviews made 30-years later with the campers, their neighbors and the Kauai officials who finally got rid of them. |
