Ryan Graves
Staff Writer
The first film that kicked off the Leonard A. Oakland Film Festival impressed the audience on Friday night. The film was based on the book “Soul Searching: the Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers,” by Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton. The documentary was made by Mike and Tim Eaton, who both graduated from Whitworth.
The film is a vast look at religion and teenagers. The film makers traveled from Idaho to New Jersey to find teens to focus on. Different spiritual levels are shown, from the devout private Christian high school student to the agnostic public school student. Surprisingly, the film makers also decided to include interviews with both a Mormon and a Jew.