
A long time issue for this blogger has been the
plight of children in Uganda and the DRC who have been kidnapped and forced to be child soliders and sex slaves of
Joseph Kony and the
LRA--and now one episode in that history is coming to the big screen (hat tip
Peter Chattaway via
Arts & Faith forum).
Variety reports that Caspian Pictures has signed Uma Thurman to star as a nun who works to secure the release of over 100 girls kidnapped by the LRA from a Catholic boarding school in Uganda. The film is based on the non-fiction
Stolen Angels, which I believe is about the
1996 Aboke abductions (of which
Grace Akallo was one of the girls kidnapped). There's a lot of God-talk in this real life story, and I'm acutely curious to see if and how this translates to the big screen.