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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
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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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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
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How do Trump supporters feel about the Paris Accord? Globally and around the U.S., there are strong opinions whether or not the Paris Climate Accord is a good idea. The American exit is either a horrifying abdication of American leadership or a forceful and long overdue statement about U.S. sovereignty.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Accusations of lying fly between James Comey and White House During his testimony Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey accused President Trump and other White House officials of lying when they said the FBI was in disarray and its staff had lost confidence in him. President Trump’s lawyer said Comey was wrong -- that the president never asked for his loyalty, and never asked him to back off the investigation into former NSA director Michael Flynn.