CALL ME KUCHU

Call_Me_Kuchu_poster

HISTORY

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato, Uganda's first openly gay man, and retired Anglican Bishop Christopher Senyonjo work against the clock to defeat state-sanctioned homophobia while combatting vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes their movement to their core and sends shock waves around the world.

United States, 2012

Original Title:

Call Me Kuchu (Nazywaj mnie Kuchu)

87 minutes.

Director:

Katherine Fairfax Wright

Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Script:

Katherine Fairfax Wright

Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Music:

Jon Mandabach

Photography:

Katherine Fairfax Wright

Producer:

Chicken & Egg

Cinereach

Catapult Film Fund

Frony Line Defenders

Puma Creative

Film Independent

IFP

The Bertha Foundation Britdoc

Touchstone

Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund

Frameline

 

DIRECTOR

Katherine Fairfax Wright graduated from Columbia University with a double major in Film Studies and Anthropology. She produced GABI ON THE ROOF IN JULY (2010), associate-produced the award-winning documentary LUMO, and has worked in a producing role on several other films. She is also an award-winning photographer. Katherine is a Chaz & Roger Ebert Directing Fellow, as well as an alumnus of the Film Independent Documentary Lab, the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant at Full Frame, and the Film Independent Producing Lab. In 2012, Filmmaker Magazine named Katherine one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She is currently producing Malik Vitthal's Watts-set gangster drama IMPERIAL DREAMS

Malika Zouhali-Worrall is an award-winning filmmaker of British/Moroccan origin. Malika is a Chaz & Roger Ebert Directing Fellow and an alumni of the Film Independent Documentary Lab, the Tribeca All Access program, the Firelight Media Producer's Lab, and the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant at Full Frame Documentary Festival. In 2012, Filmmaker Magazine named Malika one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She is a graduate of Cambridge University, and holds an MA in International Affairs from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), where she studied with a full scholarship from the Entente Cordiale Scheme. Malika's current film, THANK YOU FOR PLAYING, directed and produced in partnership with David Osit, tells the story of Ryan Green, an indie video game developer who's building a video game about his terminally ill young son. The film is an ITVS/POV co-production and premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

  • Best Documentary Teddy Award Berlin Film Festival 2012
  • Cinema Fairbindet Prize Berlin Film Festival 2012
  • Best International Feature Hot Docs 2012
  • AT&T Audience Award Frameline Film Festival 2012
  • Amnesty International Human Rights Aeard Durban Film Festival 2012
  • Human Rights Award DoKufest Prizen, Kosovo 2012
  • Victor Rabinotz Award for Social Justice, Hampons Int'l Film Festival 2012
  • Best Documentary Madrid LBGT Film Festival 2012
  • Best Documentary feature Austin LGBT Film Festival 2012
  • Best Documentary Santa Fe Independent Film Festival 2012
  • Audience Award Watchdocs Film Festival 2012
  • Audience Award Freiburg Gay Film Festival 2012
  • Audience Award Torino GLBT Film Festival 2012
  • Audience Award Hamburg Queer Film Festival 2012
  • Audience Award Madrid LGBT Film Festival 2012
  • Audience Award Seattle LGBT Film Festival 2012
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