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Roger Ross Williams

Roger Ross Williams (born September 16, 1973) is an American television news, documentary and entertainment director, producer and writer. He directed most notably Music by Prudence that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), about a 21-year-old Zimbabwean singer-songwriter Prudence Mabhena, who was born severely disabled and has struggled to overcome poverty and discrimination. All other seven members of Prudence's band "Liyana" are also disabled. Williams's film God Loves Uganda, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival to enormous critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for a 2014 Academy Award, has won over a dozen awards and screened at over 60 film festivals worldwide. His latest film Life, Animated was nominated for the 2017 Academy Award.

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That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.

Reality, Creating, Stories, Changing, Altering

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

Director, Directors, Documentaries, Editor, Editors, Important

'Traveling While Black' is about empathy, what African Americans experience in traveling throughout America, and how it hasn't changed that much from the past. If it can be experienced in virtual reality, then perhaps some empathy can be gained.

America, Black, Experience, Past, Reality

After I read about Uganda's now famous "kill the gays" bill, I wanted to explore the religious forces behind it. As a gay man, I wanted to understand the folks who wanted to kill me and why.

Gay, Gays, Kill, Men, Read, Religious

I had full access to the material, and had a great relationship with Sean Bailey, the president of Disney productions. He really guided me through the licensing process of the footage. I made presentations to the various departments at the studio, and they were moved by Owen's [Suskind] story.

Bailey, Great Relationship, Guided, Licensing, President, Stories

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed. "

Book, Saws, Well Known, Holding, Homosexuals, Bible

I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?".

Community, Southern, Style, Band, Choir, Whole

When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.

Christian, Coma, Fall, Prayer, Rock, Room

It is our stories [classic Disney films] that make us human - so Owen [Suskind] has become an expert in what connects us and makes us human. That got to me, the power of these stories, and the lessons these tales give us to create the connection between us.

Connections, Expert, Experts, Giving, Lessons, Make

The product Disney created actually changed a life, and that was significant to them. They didn't stand in my way at all.

Changed, Created, Product, Significant, Stand, Way

I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that chronicle the hero's journey, and have existed for thousands of years. Owen, in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

Expert, Fables, Films, Hero, Journey, Years

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

Childhood, Created, Growing, Growing Up, Reality, World

I always compare young missioners to the kids who naively signed up to go to Iraq to fight terrorism. They are just the foot soldiers in the spiritual war that Mike Bickle and Lou Engle are waging against what they consider sin. They will say it is biblical truth, but the Bible says many things, and you don't see anyone saying that slavery is okay or that we should not eat shellfish. Why the fascination with sex?

Bickle, Lou, Sex, Spiritual, War

Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it.

Racism, People, Suffering, Acceptable, Suffer

Racism is a global problem and it is as damaging to Whites as it is to non-Whites. Everyone must fight against it.

Against, Fight, Fighting, Problem, Racism, Whites

I both didn't know Owen [Suskind] beforehand and didn't have any connection to the autistic community. But Owen wasn't really a problem, because he participated in the writing of the book and wanted people to see him as he truly is. As far as the cameras, Owen lives in the moment and the cameras really didn't distract him.

Book, Writing, People, Suskind, Cameras, Lives

I agree that Scott Lively is marginal, and that is exactly why evangelicals must not let him speak for them. But in Uganda, Scott Lively is allowed to address the parliament for five hours, and his hate-filled message led directly to the anti-homosexuality bill.

Addresses, Five, Hate, Parliament, Scott, Uganda

Imagine that you're a gay man and you're spending all your time with people who believe you are possessed by the devil.

Believe, Gay, Imagine, Man, Men

Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

Awards, Body, Experience, Obviously, Winning

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.

Children, Grow, Growing Up, Hurtful, School, Symbolic

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