God Loves Uganda (2013)

Directed by

Roger Ross Williams

Genre

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines how American evangelical missionaries influence anti-LGBTQ legislation in Uganda. It follows young missionaries and interviews religious leaders to trace the connection between North American church groups and Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Act.

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What happens

God Loves Uganda is a 2013 American documentary film produced and directed by Roger Ross Williams, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. It explores connections between evangelicalism in North America and in Uganda, suggesting that the North American influence is the reason behind the controversial Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, which at one point raised the possibility of the death penalty for gays and lesbians. The filmmakers follow a group of young missionaries from the International House of Prayer in their first missionary effort in another nation, as well as interviewing several evangelical leaders from the US and Uganda. Williams was inspired to make God Loves Uganda when he met David Kato, an LGBT activist who was killed in 2011, ostensibly in a robbery. Kato told there was an untold story of the damage American fundamentalist evangelicals are doing in Uganda; of the insidious nature of their aggressive effort to harvest young, unclaimed souls to preach a gospel of love intertwined with a gospel of intolerance. The Dutch premiere of the film was at the Movies that Matter Film Festival in The Netherlands in 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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