Call Me Kuchu

The award-winning film, “Call Me Kuchu,” will be shown on Tuesday, October 29 at 7 p.m., in the Kimball Theatre (Hunter Conservatory) on the Whitman campus.

Call Me Kuchu is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright. The film explores the struggles of the LGBT community in Uganda, focusing in part on the 2011 murder of LGBT activist David Kato.

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. With unprecedented access, the filmmakers follow David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists as they work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combatting vicious persecution in their daily lives.

But no one, not even the filmmakers are prepared for the brutal murder that shakes their movement to the its core and sends shock waves around the world.

CALL ME KUCHU depicts the last year in the life of a courageous, quick-witted and steadfast man whose wisdom and achievements were not fully recognized until after his death, and whose memory has inspired a new generation of human rights advocates.