“I think of the film as a Disney movie. What is a Disney movie? It’s about people who try to be the best possible person they can be. What is the best thing people are capable of doing? They take on challenges to rise to things and be the best they can. They are not to be in it for the fight but for the love after the fight.” “My first film [Pray the Devil Back to Hell] was about women in Liberia and the peace movement there. Everything I did in this film was something I learned from those African women. Everything they taught me about peace building I brought to making this film. This film came from Africa. It’s about putting aside your fears and talking to your enemies. Love them.” “The biggest surprise of all is off screen. Rob Schenck has turned into one of my closest friends. I was expecting that he would have a pitch fork and horns. When I sat down with him the first time I never would have guessed that I would become such good friends with him.” “I started this film as an agnostic who slept really late on Sundays. And I finished it going to church. I was very religious growing up and fell away the way a lot of people do. But I never lost my respect for it and had a longing. Then I spent a lot of time with Rob and religion felt appealing again.” “The Armor of Light gives you a chance to watch people really fight. There is an argument scene in the film which is very genuine. I’ve never, especially in a documentary, seen people let it go like that on camera.” 
Abigail Disney
Abigail Disney
Rob Schenck, Abigail Disney and Lucy McBath
Rob Schenck and Lucy McBath
Rob Schenck
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The first time Abigail Disney, a filmmaker and pro-choice, left-leaning feminist, met with the Rev. Rob Schenck, one of the nation’s leading evangelical ministers and an anti-abortion activist with a far right-leaning conservative constituency, there was no doubt that the two passionately disagreed on many issues.
“I said to Rob, ‘we’ve Googled each other and we could have a fight right now if we wanted,’” says Disney, who is Walt Disney’s grandniece. “‘Let’s choose to shelve the fight — put it over here and talk about it some other time. We probably share more than we think we do. Let’s inhabit the space that we do share.’ And when you choose to do that, you tend to find your way into spaces that are above politics. If you share space with someone above politics, they can find a way of working things out.”
Schenck and Disney were able unite as Schenck became one of the key subjects of Disney’s powerful thought-provoking documentary, The Armor of Light. The film follows Schenck and Lucy McBath, the mother of Jordan Davis, an unarmed 17-year-old who was shot and killed in a parking lot as he sat in a car. McBath joins with Schenck, who preaches about the toll of gun violence in America and gun reform.
In Disney’s directorial debut, she probes the question: is being pro-gun consistent with being pro-life. “I just couldn’t jive the two things in my head — being pro-life and pro-gun,” says Disney, who produced the film Pray the Devil Back to Hell about Liberian women who helped end civil war and brought peace to their country. “I always wondered why everybody was so comfortable with it. In my heart I thought, somebody has to bring a new perspective to this.”
The results are unexpected and illuminating. Regardless of your politics, The Armor of Light inspires people to think.
Abigail Disney shared five surprising things about The Armor of Light. Click through the gallery to read them all.
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