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All the politicians in Uganda play to their fundamentalist benefactors in America because of the flow of money.

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Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd.

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As a film-maker, I certainly don't want to be put into some box.

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Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects.

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I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.

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I began filming 'God Loves Uganda' by first meeting some of the Ugandan and American missionaries who have helped create Uganda's evangelical movement. They were often large-hearted. They were passionate and committed.

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The war against homosexuality in Uganda is fueled by the funds of American Christian missionary churches.

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I grew up in the church, and I went into the production of 'God Loves Uganda' intending to raise awareness of the abuse of religious power in Uganda, and after 30 public appearances, I have learned a lot about how people receive this sort of message.

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I have learned that the hardest part of campaigning for tolerance and justice is encouraging people to look at their own selves, to examine their own identity and shortcomings.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: September 16th, 1973

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