I'm Not Ashamed

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Brian Baugh directs. Chris Witt cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Shot for just $1.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
• 2Released 10 years ago.
• 3Editor Chris Witt shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 4Masey McLain and Mark Daugherty and Jennifer O'Neill carry the top of the cast.
• 5Marketing tagline: "Her faith would touch the world.".
• 6IMDB entry: tt4950110 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 7Classified under 34 themes, including "depression", "high school", "faith", "christianity".

The technical file

Editing

Chris Witt

Production design

Christian Snell

Costume design

Vanessa Gonzalez

VFX supervisor

David Wallace Allen

Runtime

113 min · 1h 53m

Aspect ratio (typical)

1.37:1 (Academy)

Status

Released

Budget

$1,500,000

Box office

$2,082,980

Return

139% of budget

Original language

EN

Certification (US)

PG-13

IMDB

I'm Not Ashamed (2016) ↗

Also by

Brian Baugh

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  2024 · ★ 10.0
• 
  Finding You

  2021 · ★ 6.9
• 
  To Save a Life

  2009 · ★ 6.3
• 
  The World We Make

  2019 · ★ 6.1
• 
  The Comeback Kids

  2016

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Trailers & featurettes

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Community reviews

What people are saying

• Reno2017-10-22
  ★ 6/10

  Life. For some people it is worth living for something! Based on the journal of a person who had got killed in the 1999 shooting at a high school in the US. Really inspiring character and the story, till that final horror event. But the real shame was, the filmmakers used it to promote religious. Or maybe they have highlighted too much from the religious aspect. Because, her life and that horrific event connected with her unexpected prediction which are only a coincident, rather any miracle from heaven. I'm not against believers, but I anticipated honest, a reality, not fantasy. So coming to the film, apart from misusing a real person's life, it was a nice film. Nice casting and performances. Masey McLain was so pretty and awesome in her role. Don't expect it to be the film about that 1999 shooting. It was not about that, except it had a connection as everything was built behind it. They have shown very little from that angle towards the end. Some of the real footage attached in those parts. Yeah, the end was emotional as expected. Everyone might not find it a good film for what I had told earlier, nevertheless the true story deserves some respect. 6/10

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Production companies

Who made it

• VI

  Visible Pictures

• AL

  All Entertainment

Key crew

• Sound Effects EditorRussell Mehringer
• EditorChris Witt
• CastingNise Davies
• Production DesignChristian Snell
• Art DirectionAnthony Jastrow
• Costume DesignVanessa Gonzalez
• Visual Effects SupervisorDavid Wallace Allen

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• depression
• high school
• faith
• christianity
• pastor
• denver, colorado
• artist
• trauma
• homelessness
• violence in schools
• female friendship
• bullying
• biography
• based on true story
• grief
• tragedy
• loneliness
• teenage girl
• high school friends
• social outcast
• religious film
• teen drama
• 1990s
• paying it forward
• mass shooting
• christian film
• non-professional acting
• independent film
• psychological drama
• columbine
• victim complex
• disrespectful
• inflammatory
• youth group

Release history · US

When it landed

• Theatrical2016-10-21PG-13

Also known as

International titles

• I'm Not Ashamed: The Rachel Joy Scott Columbine StoryUS
• I'm Not Ashamed: The Rachel Joy Scott StoryUS
• Ja, ich glaubeDE
• I am not AshamedUS
• Hablando con elMX
• Hablando con elES