![]() ![]() Rossi, who worked as a full time preacher after college and started the church Eternal Grace once he moved with his family to Los Angeles, can’t leave God out of the mix.Ĭhamp, with a pure heart, represents God. At its core it is a story about the effects of bullying and overcoming mental health challenges. They are determined to show the disbelievers that Champ exists. The story centers on 9-year-old Lucy Lago, an orphan who lives with her grandfather, Papa. They worked together, long distance via zoom sessions and came up with a finished product last summer. Tabor worked as a teacher for 32 years, first in North Carolina and then in Greenville County schools.ĭuring COVID, Rossi contacted Tabor to ask if she was interested in writing a children’s book about Champ. Rossi moved back to Pittsburgh after graduation, worked as a minister, and when he got some interest from Hollywood on a script he wrote, moved to Los Angeles. They wrote songs and performed together in high school. He stayed because his best friend, a paraplegic who he helped care for, was there. ![]() Liberty banned Rossi from performing at school events. They thought they were seeing the world just fine. He thought he might be able to open some people’s eyes. He got in big trouble early on when he performed at a school service, singing a less-than-favorable song he wrote about fundamentalism and Liberty. Tabor and Rossi met at Liberty University in the 1980s at Friday night get-togethers Rossi started for students who were not quite as fundamentalist leaning as Jerry Falwell and other school leaders. It is based on the stories she told her students. ![]() The film was shot over a four-week period in 2022.Īnd now a motion picture based on Tabor’s book, Lucy & the Lake Monster, which she wrote with college friend Richard Rossi, an actor and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles. ![]()
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