Help Bring This Story to the World

I Saw the Children Gather needs your support.

After twenty years in the making, the film is finished. The one-hour documentary is ready. The archive of extended material, untold stories, and additional footage is ready. The Alumni Community — a place for every Harand camper everywhere to reconnect and share where life has taken them — is ready to be built.

And the camp itself? Still going. Harand is now in its 71st summer, still putting kids onstage, still building the self-confidence that lasts a lifetime.

There is one thing standing between this film and its audience: music rights.

Music is not incidental to this story. It is the story. The hundreds of songs that Harand campers have learned, performed, and still know by heart are what bind 71 years of alumni together across generations. To tell this story honestly — and to tell it legally — we must license that music.

We are raising $50,000.

What Your Support Makes Possible

The Film Released

A properly licensed, one-hour documentary available on public broadcasting and on this site, for anyone who wants to watch it.

Extended Content

There was enough footage for a limited series. That format didn't exist when we shot this film. It does now. Scenes, performances, and interviews that didn't make the final cut will live on this site — the full picture of something that deserves to be fully seen.

The Alumni Community

An Alumni Updates page where Harand campers from every decade — the 1950s through today — can post video, audio, or written updates about where life has taken them. Not just a film. A reunion that never has to end.

A Living Archive

For the children and grandchildren of Harand campers. For the kids at camp right now, who will one day want to look back. For anyone who has ever found a place that changed them.

Every Donor Will Be Recognized

All contributors will be thanked by name in the film's credits and on this site.

Suggested giving levels:

  • $250 — Friend of the Film

  • $500 — Supporter

  • $1,000 — Patron

  • $2,500 — Producer's Circle

  • $5,000 — Executive Supporter

  • $10,000 — Lead Benefactor

All amounts welcome. Every dollar goes directly toward music licensing.