Born This Way

Saturday, June 22, 2013

New York premiere! Filmmaker in person!

There are more arrests for homosexuality in Cameroon than in any other country in the world. With intimate access to the lives of four young gay Cameroonians, Born This Way steps outside the genre of activist filmmaking and offers a vivid and poetic portrait of day-to-day life in modern Africa. This is a story of what is possible in the global fight for equality.

Presented in association with African Film Festival, Inc. www.africanfilmny.org and International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), www.iglhrc.org

Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world. Human Rights Watch found that at least 28 people have been prosecuted for same-sex conduct in Cameroon since 2010. Most cases are marked by grave human rights violations, including torture, forced confessions, denial of access to legal counsel, and discriminatory treatment by law enforcement and judicial officials. The March 2013 Human Rights Watch report Guilt by Association found that most people charged with homosexuality are convicted based on little or no evidence. Dozens of Cameroonians do jail time solely because they are suspected of being gay or lesbian.

hrw.org/reports/2013/03/21/guilty-association

• Country Cameroon
• Language In English and French with English subtitles
• Rating NR
• Running Time 84 minutes
• Director Shaun Kadlec and Deb Tullmann

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