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  • June 25, 2012

    Here at The Awards Circuit, we pride ourselves in discussing all things “awards.” I felt it only appropriate that on behalf of the site, I deliver some personal category awards for this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival™. Let me first say that it was a very difficult process coming up with the winners, but do know that there are some very worthy films that unfortunately didn’t receive an award that must be seen pronto. After the jump, you’ll once again see the full list of screenings I attended for memory refreshment purposes, followed by the announcement of the category award winners. Check it out… Read more on Los Angeles Film Festival: Awards Circuit Festival Awards…

    Call Me Kuchu (****)

    "Call Me Kuchu" is one of the finest films to come out of LAFF so far...

    June 18, 2012

    Directors Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall create a stunning portrait of Ugandan gay activist David Kato — credited as being the first man to come out in the nation of Uganda — with their documentary, Call Me Kuchu. Its plead for human decency in a country that has long flaunted the ugly scars left by Western colonization — religious indoctrination that has bred a government filled with hate and a people who demonize the minority — is but one of many compelling pieces to this documentary. Every focal point that should be covered is covered in the film. Wright and Zouhali-Worrall aren’t from the Michael Moore school of documentary filmmakers where every hot topic issue must be shoved down one’s throat to the point of suffocation. There isn’t a moment where an agenda is being fulfilled, or even sought after; rather, the pair of female directors sit back and let Kato and his fellow LGBT friends tell us their stories of the suffering, pain, and utter horror they face each day being proud “Kuchus” — the Ugandan term that codifies the LGBT community in the nation.  You think it’s difficult being gay in America? You have absolutely no idea the amount of bigotry, hate, violence, and sheer loathing the “Kuchu’s” face from a nation that imbibes religious dictum as vigorously as water in the desert. Read more on Call Me Kuchu (****)…

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