July 8, 2007 Hi, my name is Holly Stephenson and I am 13 years old. I starred in a movie called Summercamp! It has taken me a very long time to get a start on my blog. You couldn't even believe why. It all started out 2 weeks ago, on Saturday. Half-way through the day I got really sick. I called my mom and I told her I wasn't feeling well. She told me to go take 2 Advil. "Mom, I swear, I feel terrible and I can't move otherwise I get winded." I replied. So she said, "Fine, I'll call back and don't pick up the phone. Let your brother pick it up so I can tell him to get you Advil." When she called back I let my brother, TJ, pick up the phone and then finally about 20 minutes later he brought me Advil. You could tell he was annoyed. He threw the whole container at me and told me, "Mom doesn't believe you." Then he left. I rested a lot more that day. It even hurt to close my eyes because my fever was so high it felt like I was frying my eyeballs. Finally, my mom got home from work. I was shivering under the covers in my room. It took her a long time before she finally came upstairs to see how sick I really was. She felt the back of my neck and then raised her eyebrows. She left and then came back with a thermometer. When she checked my temperature, she cussed and then said, "Come on you have got to get in the tub! You're temperature is 104.9!" I got in the tub and it was really cold. It just felt worse then under the blazing covers. Mom left me to soak and came back about 10 minutes later. Even more shocked, she said, "Oh my god, you're turning green!!" I was really scared and I started panicking. I couldn't breath. Every breath was broken up and my lungs felt like they were shrinking into raisins. "I can't breath!" I told mom. She finally decided to take me to the ER, and we grabbed my stuffed chicken fluff, as we left. When I came home from the ER, I took some Tylenol and went to bed. They didn't know what I was sick with; all they did was tell me how to cope with the symptoms. I am still sick right now, but I can get up and move and stuff. I should be off the hook in a week. Lately I have actually been able to help out around the house. Backbreaking labor with the chores outside. We're taking out our old deck and believe me, I don't like carrying wheelbarrows full of rotten spider infested wood. I'll make it through this though. I always do. Written By: Holly!

This is my first blog ever ever ever. So far so good. The Summercamp! team is especially excited to be getting this film out to the world, and I will take this space now to thank AOL/True Stories for kicking this off--it's a film dear to our hearts and we owe much thanks to many people. We premiered at SXSW in the coolest city of Austin. Then we re-premieried at the humongoid Toronto Film festival (thanks to uber-dude Thom Powers), where we spent lots of money trying to bring attention to our little film in the hopes of getting picked up. We got iced by the big fancy distributors, so we got a kick-ass booker named Jim Browne to help us self-release the film in theaters across the country. We open at the IFC Center in NYC July 18 and on and on into the fall! We'll keep everyone posted. Obviously. Here's to DIY--there's not much cash, but there are a lot of cool people involved!