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Director
  
Roger Ross Williams

Show
  
Independent Lens

Episode number
  
21

Previous episode
  
Let the Fire Burn

Country
  
United States

7.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Documentary

Season number
  
15

Air date
  
May 19, 2014

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
January 18, 2013 (2013-01-18)

Writer
  
Benjamin Gray, Richard Hankin, Roger Ross Williams

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God Loves Uganda is a 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.

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Williams was inspired to make God Loves Uganda when he met David Kato, an LBGT 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.

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Reception

In late May 2014, the film aired on several PBS stations in the United States as part of the Independent Lens series. In response, the International House of Prayer said that it is "not involved" in politics, despite the long history of political involvement by Engle, IHOP director Mike Bickle and other IHOP leaders.

Critical reception

Joe Mirabella at the Huffington Post described it as the "most terrifying film of the year"; Tim Wu at Slate and Bill Blezek at the Omaha World-Herald described the film as "disturbing." On the other hand, John G. Stackhouse, Jr. of Christianity Today criticized the film for "evangelophobia" and trading in "propaganda", likening the film to the 2006 film Jesus Camp.

Awards

God Loves Uganda has won the following awards:

  • Full Frame Inspiration Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
  • Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Dallas International Film Festival
  • Best Feature Length Documentary at the Ashland Independent Film Festival
  • Audience Award Documentary at the Mountain Film Festival
  • Best Overall Documentary at the DocuWest Film Festival
  • Sheffield Youth Jury Award at the Sheffield Doc/Fest
  • Grand Jury Pink Peach Feature at the Atlanta Film Festival
  • Jury Award for Documentary Feature at the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

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    God Loves Uganda Wikipedia
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    God Loves Uganda IMDb God Loves Uganda themoviedb.org


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