What:
Fd Zone and Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival presents
Rainbow Warriors
Best of Kashish Documentaries
Screening of
Two Girls Against The Rain
Are We So Different (Amraki Etoi Bhinno)
Project Bolo: Indian Lgbt Movement
Call Me Kuchu
Breaking Free
At Fd Zone.
When:
23rd February, 2014.
2 Pm to 6 Pm.
Entry:
Free and open to all.
Venue:
Rr Theatre
10th floor
Films Division
24, Pedder Road
Mumbai-400026
About the event:
Session 1: Lgbt Lives in Asia
Intro — 15 min
Two Girls Against The Rain
Dir: Sao Sopheak
11 mins | 2012 | Khmer with Est | Cambodia
A captivatingly courageous and touching film about a lesbian couple in Cambodia. Soth Yun and Sem Eang, both now in their late 50s, loved each other since the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime,when more than two million people died. Soth and Sem survived. The deep bond existing between them and their strength has helped them overcome all.
Winner of Best...
Fd Zone and Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival presents
Rainbow Warriors
Best of Kashish Documentaries
Screening of
Two Girls Against The Rain
Are We So Different (Amraki Etoi Bhinno)
Project Bolo: Indian Lgbt Movement
Call Me Kuchu
Breaking Free
At Fd Zone.
When:
23rd February, 2014.
2 Pm to 6 Pm.
Entry:
Free and open to all.
Venue:
Rr Theatre
10th floor
Films Division
24, Pedder Road
Mumbai-400026
About the event:
Session 1: Lgbt Lives in Asia
Intro — 15 min
Two Girls Against The Rain
Dir: Sao Sopheak
11 mins | 2012 | Khmer with Est | Cambodia
A captivatingly courageous and touching film about a lesbian couple in Cambodia. Soth Yun and Sem Eang, both now in their late 50s, loved each other since the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime,when more than two million people died. Soth and Sem survived. The deep bond existing between them and their strength has helped them overcome all.
Winner of Best...
- 2/19/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
In the deeply religious Christian nation of Uganda, homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. But after returning from a stint in South Africa, David Kato wanted to fight to liberate oppressed Ugandians who were forced to remain in the closet due to the nation's anti-homosexual bill. As Uganda's first openly gay man, David Kato fights to defeat this bill while overcoming brutal physical and verbal persecution in Call Me Kuchu, a documentary by Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright. Working against a violent culture of anti-homosexuality, David's story is ...
- 12/17/2013
- by krelth
- International Documentary Association
Documentaries have come a long way in the past 20 years, especially in the last decade. Documentary film has developed into a popular and visible form of entertainment, while having a bigger effect on society, usually addressing important issues with the goal of informing the public and pushing for social change. Ten years ago, it was more difficult to name 10 “great” documentaries released in one single year. Oh, how times have changed. There are so many incredible docs released each year – most never released wide – that it is impossible to catch up with each – but we try our best here at Sound On Sight. The following is a list of recent documentaries recommended most by our staff. It was hard to choose between the many great docs released this year, but we decided to narrow it down to a list of 10, based on what received the most votes from our end-year...
- 12/17/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
A feature project that we've been following since 2011, when it was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab that year, is now set to make its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival next month. Titled Imperial Dreams, it's produced by the same filmmaker (Katherine Fairfax Wright) who co-directed, edited, and shot the acclaimed documentary Call Me Kuchu (the powerful and moving film that follows the daily life of David Kato – the first openly gay Ugandan man). Malik Vitthal makes his feature film directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with Ismet Prcic. And, as we are only just learning, John Boyega stars in the film, which is...
- 12/12/2013
- by Natasha Greeves
- ShadowAndAct
It's one of two recent high-profile documentaries on Lgbt rights in Uganda - the other being Call Me Kuchu, directed by Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall, which documents the daily lives of David Kato – the first openly gay Ugandan man - and three fellow “kuchus” (Lgbt Ugandans). I'll also add Wanuri Kahiu's Jambula Tree, a South African-Kenya co-production currently in development, which also puts a spotlight on the treatment of LGBTs in Uganda. Although Kahiu's film is a work of fiction, based on a short story that won the Caine Prize for short stories in 2007. Call Me Kuchu is now on home video, while...
- 9/25/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Cinedigm Entertainment Group has released, on DVD and VOD, Call Me Kuchu - the powerful and moving film that documents the daily lives of David Kato – the first openly gay Ugandan man - and three fellow “kuchus” (Lgbt Ugandans), culminating in a brutal and senseless murder that sent shock waves throughout the world. Over the course of two years, filmmakers Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall documented the daily lives of the outspoken and inspiring Kato and his fellow “kuchus” as Uganda was emerging as a frontier in the battle for African Lgbt rights. An alum of Film Independent’s Artist Development Program, Call Me Kuchu earned stellar...
- 9/24/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Documentaries come in all shapes, sizes and colors, but one thing the vast majority of them have in common is that they’re usually telling a story about something that has happened in the past. They could be looking back centuries, decades or years, but more often than not they’re exploring events that have already come to pass. Call Me Kuchu is a less common example of a film that explores an ongoing story by following people and events as they unfold, and the result is an at times harrowing, heartbreaking and hopeful look at the best and worst humanity has to offer. While the subject of gay rights divides the United States for the most part evenly and peaceably, other countries vary wildly. Some are more accepting, and some are far more restrictive. Uganda belongs in the latter camp with 95% of Ugandans aligning themselves directly against homosexuality. Gay sex is already illegal and punishable by...
- 6/17/2013
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In 2009, a bill was proposed in the Ugandan parliament that would outlaw homosexuality, making the offense punishable by death. In response, the newspaper The Rolling Stone began outing members of the Lgbt community with the headline “Hang Them.” The Lgbt activist David Kato, the first openly gay man in the rapidly anti-gay nation of Uganda, took the publication to court to prevent them from further printing the names and pictures of gay people — and won. Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali Worral’s remarkable documentary Call Me Kuchu chronicles the brave battles of Kato and his comrades, as they very publicly seek to …...
- 6/14/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Wedging The Closet Door Open In Uganda
In the United States, the last few decades have been tarnished with the debate over whether or not homosexual couples should have the same legal rights as traditionally married straight couples, but as atrocious as that contention is, it pales in comparison to the injustices that gay citizens of Uganda must endure. There, approximately 95% of the population believes that homosexuality is a blasphemous choice made by perverts hellbent on summoning the wrath of God to destroy Uganda just as he had Sodom and Gomorrah, and for this, they deserve death. This extremist view has ironically been cultivated by wealthy American Evangelical Christian groups and successfully spread to the point where there is now a proposed piece of legislation called the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that, if passed, would make homosexuality punishable by death. Yet, a few brave souls still fight the good fight against obtuse...
In the United States, the last few decades have been tarnished with the debate over whether or not homosexual couples should have the same legal rights as traditionally married straight couples, but as atrocious as that contention is, it pales in comparison to the injustices that gay citizens of Uganda must endure. There, approximately 95% of the population believes that homosexuality is a blasphemous choice made by perverts hellbent on summoning the wrath of God to destroy Uganda just as he had Sodom and Gomorrah, and for this, they deserve death. This extremist view has ironically been cultivated by wealthy American Evangelical Christian groups and successfully spread to the point where there is now a proposed piece of legislation called the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that, if passed, would make homosexuality punishable by death. Yet, a few brave souls still fight the good fight against obtuse...
- 6/14/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
There hasn't been a lot of good P.R. for civil rights in Uganda in the last few years, what with its parliament's proposed legislation that would make homosexual activity punishable by death. Call Me Kuchu, a powerful documentary by first-time filmmakers Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall, doesn't cast the country's anti-gay movement in a favorable light at all -- which is to say, it depicts the anti-gay movement fairly and accurately -- but it finds inspiration in the brave efforts of Uganda's small community of gay activists. Taking its title from a Ugandan slang term for gays and lesbians, "Call Me Kuchu" focuses primarily on David Kato, the first openly gay man in Uganda (!) who serves as the Lgbt community's unofficial leader. To...
[Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]...
[Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]...
- 6/14/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Shot in Uganda in a time when it is illegal to identify as homosexual, Call Me Kuchu begins as a casual, on-the-ground account of life for an Lgbt person living in a country in which human rights and civic freedoms have been pushed aside by religious extremists and hate groups. It ends as a eulogy for ts own central subject.
In January 2011, Ugandan Lgbt activist David Kato Kisule was found murdered in his house. Often referred to as the first openly gay man in Uganda, he was the figurehead of the small and struggling gay rights movement in his country. At the time Ugandan politicians – led by MP David Bahati – were pushing forward an anti-homosexuality bill that became known in the global press as Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill. Repercussions from the murder sounded globally, with rallies and memorials being held around the world in his honor, and leading voices like Human Rights Watch,...
In January 2011, Ugandan Lgbt activist David Kato Kisule was found murdered in his house. Often referred to as the first openly gay man in Uganda, he was the figurehead of the small and struggling gay rights movement in his country. At the time Ugandan politicians – led by MP David Bahati – were pushing forward an anti-homosexuality bill that became known in the global press as Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill. Repercussions from the murder sounded globally, with rallies and memorials being held around the world in his honor, and leading voices like Human Rights Watch,...
- 6/14/2013
- by Brian Juergens
- The Backlot
A few weeks back, we offered up this list of 10 Lgbt films you should see on the film festival circuit this summer, but there's also a few heading to traditional release. Among them is Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright's Ugandan Lgbt rights doc "Call Me Kuchu," which is being released this Friday in New York (and then next weekend in La) after nearly a year and half of winning considerable accolades on the festival circuit. Upon its world premiere at the Berlinale last year, the film won the Teddy Award for best Lgbt documentary. It followed that win with prizes for best international feature at Hot Docs, the audience award at Frameline, and the Amnesty International human rights award at Durban. Specifically focused around Lgbt people and activists in Uganda, "Call Me Kuchu" (gay and transgendered citizens are called "kuchus") centers around the life and tragic death of David Kato,...
- 6/13/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Last fall, Cinedigm Entertainment Group acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Call Me Kuchu - the powerful and moving film that documents the daily lives of David Kato – the first openly gay Ugandan man - and three fellow “kuchus” (Lgbt Ugandans), culminating in a brutal and senseless murder that sent shock waves throughout the world. Over the course of two years, filmmakers Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall documented the daily lives of the outspoken and inspiring Kato and his fellow “kuchus” as Uganda was emerging as a frontier in the battle for African Lgbt rights. Cinedigm has set a theatrical release date for the acclaimed film for this...
- 6/10/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Specifically focused around Lgbt people and Lgbt activists in Uganda, the documentary "Call Me Kuchu" (Uganda's gay and transgendered activists refer to themselves as "kuchus"), directed by Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall, centers around the life and tragic death of David Kato, a veteran activist who spent years fighting against his country’s homophobic society. Read More: First-Time Directing Duo Talk Ugandan Lgbt Rights Doc 'Call Me Kuchu' Among other terrifying things, an anti-homosexuality bill proposing death for HIV-positive gay men is introduced and Kato is one of the few brave enough to try and stop it. Unfortunately, after courageously changing the face of Lgbt rights in the country, Kato was brutally murdered. After wowing on the festival circuit, the documentary opens in select theaters this Friday. Below, watch two clips from the film, exclusive to Indiewire.
- 6/10/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Call Me Kuchu: The universality of anti-gay hate in Uganda (photo: Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato in Call Me Kuchu) It’s impossible to watch Call Me Kuchu, Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall’s affecting and shocking documentary about the fight for gay rights in Uganda, and not rail against the religion-inspired hatred that many Ugandans hold towards homosexuals. It’s even tempting to look down upon the ignorant and hateful East Africans who embrace such views and consider them the product of "Third World thinking." And yet many Americans hold comparable opinions. Search the various comment boards that deal in such political and social matters and you’ll easily find educated, technology-savvy, big city Americans who use the same justification to condemn, sometimes violently, "the gay lifestyle." So, while Call Me Kuchu bears witness to those fighting against well-organized prejudice in Uganda, it also reminds us...
- 6/1/2013
- by Mark Keizer
- Alt Film Guide
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.