BATTLECENTRE
"They're Christians but don't believe in religion. They live like Jesus would live; that's how they see it."
- award winning director Leo Regan
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Battlecentre is a large house in a rundown London suburb that opens its doors to everyone. Muggers, drug dealers and murderers have turned up here to live with families, graduates and pensioners. The only requirement is that you must start a new life and accept Jesus as your saviour. The house is owned by the Jesus Army and run by an ex-acid-dropping hippy. This is a film about a highly intense and often-unpredictable community who set themselves apart from the world but also reveal to us some truths about the society we all live in.
Channel 4, True Stories: Battlecentre
8.15 pm, Sunday 16 September 2001
dir Leo Regan, 105 minutes
"Award winning film-maker Leo Regan has tackled some truly difficult subjects over recent years, a drug addict coming off heroin (Cold Turkey) and a group of skinheads who talked honestly about their racist views (100% White). Yet he freely admits that Battlecentre, focusing on evangelical Christian movement, The Jesus Army proved to be by far his toughest ever test. Spending months observing and interacting with the movement he gradually got to know them, their thoughts, their motivations and their deeply held beliefs. In the process it tested his beliefs and attitudes profoundly."
Channel 4
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London
