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Voices of Witness Africa
- Director: Cynthia Black; Katie Sherrod
- Producer: Cynthia Black; John Clinton Bradley
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The second film in the Voices of Witness series was born out of desire to keep a promise.
The Worldwide Anglican Communion had failed to keep its promise to its LGBT children to listen to their experiences. And so in Voices of Witness: Africa, Anglican men and women from across the continent tell their stories of intolerance and community, in secrecy and hope, of facing challenges and seeking dignity as people of faith who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
The idea for this film began as an effort to bring LGBT African Anglicans to the 2008 Lambeth Conference to tell their stories to this every-ten-years-gathering of Anglican bishops. When that proved almost impossible, the decision was made to bring them to Lambeth via film. That effort was successful. A short preview of this film was shown twice at the Lambeth Conference, on one of those occasions to a standing-room-only crowd.
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