'God Loves Uganda' Headed To Theaters

After finding huge acclaim on the festival circuit following its premiere at Sundance in January, the latest by Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, God Loves Uganda, will receive a theatrical release starting October 11, 2013 through Variance Films, according to a press release sent out by the company late last week.

The film, which was a Tribeca All Access® (2011) and Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund (2012) grantee, explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in fueling Uganda’s terrifying turn towards biblical law and the proposed death penalty for homosexuality. Thanks to charismatic religious leaders and a well-financed campaign, these draconian new laws and the politicians that peddle them are winning over the Ugandan public. But these dangerous policies and the money that fuels them aren’t coming from Africa; they’re being imported from some of America’s largest megachurches. Using vérité, interviews, and hidden camera footage, the film allows American religious leaders and their young missionaries that make up the “front lines in a battle for billions of souls” to explain their positions in their own words.