Looks like the film is finished. You can even watch the first fifteen minutes online.
I’ve put in a request to learn more about it. Hopefully I’ll be able to offer a review sometime this year. With Buechner as the subject, how could it be anything but challenging and inspiring?
I’ve read an advance copy (there are supposed to be some changes), and he’s amazing on Africa and on life in general, and indeed his humility is quite striking — but the thing that absolutely blew me away (and which hasn’t been pointed out really since there hasn’t been a Christian media review yet) was his complete openness about his faith. The “Dissimulate At All Costs” 1990s policy is clearly over in a big way. At one point the interviewer actually chides him for bringing up God and quoting the Bible so much no matter what the topic is. My goodness, he even talks about his prayer life…more than once!