Behind the Mirror: documenting challenges faced by Ugandan LGBTI
Frank Mugisha, Ugandan LGBTI activist
IndieGoGo is a social network connecting film makers and fans to produce independent film. The site provides film makers with the resources to pitch their projects whilst fans can their choose which ones they wish to support and how. One of the present projects is “Behind The Mirror”, a documentary on Ugandan LGBTI activists.
In this documentary we will investigate and advocate for responses to the many challenges faced by the LGBTI community in Uganda. This documentary will feature testimonies of LGBTI Ugandans, about their struggle to survive and to comprehend their sexual orientation, in a very hostile and homophobic society. Among those featured in the documentary will be members of the various LGBTI communities in Uganda.
The documentary will address many issues: confronting healthcare discrimination of LGBTI communities; why, when and how to ‘come out’; understanding of the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS, reaching out to MSM (men who have sex with men) to seek out their voices, painting a clear picture to the world on what responses have been undertaken to eliminate HIV/AIDS within the LGBTIcommunities in Uganda, as well as the constraints in executing these responses within the LGBTI communities.
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In a country where homosexuality is misunderstood and feared, it is inspiring that this film is being made. I wish the production team good luck in their endeavors, and I look forward to the finished product.
Many LGBTI activists have come out in Uganda to challenge the laws on homosexuality and to fight so that to end the discrimination of LGBTI people,however hostile it is..but behind the mirror brings out the inner voices and faces of those Ugandans who are not activists but ready help to challenge the challenges faced.
Any support to enable make this movie is highly appreciated. http://www.indiegogo.com/behindthemirror
Behind the mirror is a project of Icebreakers – Uganda http://www.icebreakersuganda.org
Thank you for this blogg
This movie is really targeting the grasroots and it exposes most of the difficulties individuals go through as members of the LGBTIQ society. I urge you to help in any way to support this initiative. Alluta Continua.
Nkoyooyo Brian
Vice president
Icebreakers uganda.
Support we will. But it is bothersome that such funding to activists in Africa, more often than not, goes towards other purposes quite different to the purpose for which the funding was given in the first place.