During his sophomore year of college he even attempted to transfer to UCLA Film school but was ultimately rejected.
[1] Camp met his first wife, Carolyn Hopkins, at a Holiday Inn in Jackson, Mississippi, when she was in town visiting with her sorority sisters.
He made connections in Hollywood through a college friend, Tom Lester, but numerous film companies did not want to produce the movie.
[6] He and his co-producer, Ed Vanston, created their own distribution company in order to release the film worldwide.
With Camp's marketing and advertising background he was able to personally develop the strategy to make the film a hit.