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Academy Award-winning filmmaker; director of “Life, Animated" and producer for God Loves Uganda, a documentary about the role of American missionaries in anti-gay legislation there
PROFILE
Roger Ross Williams
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FROM Roger Ross Williams
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How Disney movies changed the life of an autistic boy and his family Owen Suskind was diagnosed with autism and lost his ability to speak at age three. Through animated Disney movies, his family helped him talk again. He’s the focus of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Life, Animated.”
The Treatment
Roger Ross Williams: Life, Animated Academy Award winning documentarian Roger Ross Williams joins Elvis Mitchell in a conversation on autism, as documented in his newest film Life, Animated.
To the Point
Are US Evangelists behind Foreign Anti-Gay Laws? Roger Ross Williams is an Academy Award-winner, who's director and producer of the new documentary God Loves Uganda , about the efforts of US evangelists to export the culture wars. One of those evangelicals, Scott Lively, is being sued in federal court in this country for inciting the persecution and murder of gays and lesbians in Uganda, as we hear from Alex Seitz-Wald of the National Journal .
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Film Reviews
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