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  • 2013
  • TV-14
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2013
  • TV-14
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary A powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to infuse African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting sexual immorality and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow biblical law.

Directed By: Roger Ross Williams

Written By: Benjamin Gray, Richard Hankin, Roger Ross Williams

  • 2013
  • TV-14
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2013
  • TV-14
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 23 m

God Loves Uganda

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
77
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary A powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to infuse African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting sexual immorality and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow biblical law.

Directed By: Roger Ross Williams

Written By: Benjamin Gray, Richard Hankin, Roger Ross Williams

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83
Oct 11, 2013
An eye-opening, often-infuriating new documentary.
By A.A. Dowd FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 10, 2013
A searing look at the role of American evangelical missionaries in the persecution of gay Africans, Roger Ross Williams’s God Loves Uganda approaches this intersection of faith and politics with some fairness and a good deal of outrage.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 8, 2013
[A] gripping, urgent, and often horrifying documentary.
By Andrew Lapin FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 7, 2013
Williams is to be commended not only for his filmmaking skill, but also for pulling back the curtain on a most disturbing situation.
By James Greenberg FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 31, 2013
Watching this film will leave you with some dispiriting questions about America and its values.
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75
Oct 24, 2013
God Loves Uganda clearly lays the blame for it at the feet of the American evangelical movement. The movie doesn’t really argue its case, preferring to stand back, in quiet outrage, as the representatives of that movement are shown with the match in their hands.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 7, 2013
Roger Ross Williams’ forceful polemic succeeds to a startling degree, rightly decrying the use of the gospel to incite homophobia, and allowing the most fervent interviewees to damn themselves with their own proselytizing words.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Full Credit Productions, Motto Pictures
Release Date Oct 11, 2013
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating TV-14
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Tagline Have you heard the good news?
Website https://www.facebook.com/GodLovesUganda
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Awards

Black Movie Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Ashland Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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