Forest Whitaker Latest Film Deals With Uganda's Child Soldiers

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Forest Whitaker as General Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland

Forest Whitaker has a number of films he plans to direct, one of particular interest is 'Better Angel's'. Better Angels is a film close to Whitaker's heart and focuses on the child soldiers of Northern Uganda. In 2007 Whitaker won an academy award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland.

Pre-production for his film is expected to begin in April of this year, and Child Troopers director Ebony Butler, is hoping to be involved with the making of the film.

Better Angels, although a fiction film, has many similarities with our documentary Child Troopers. Both have common themes based on events and situations that arose from the LRA conflict, that has seen over 30,000 children abducted and forced to become child soldiers.

Ebony in Los Angeles

Ebony has finally made it the the United States of America, to continue working on her feature documentary film Child Troopers which is slated for release in 2012.

Ebony has spent the first few days in Malibu, California, where she has been hosted by friends John O'Shei and Christopher Veitor, supporters of her work and Child Troopers the documentary in particular.

Ebony has met with our LA based crew members including producer Alec Pedersen, Todd Spradlin and Trampas Thompson and is set to start serious work this week when she moves from Malibu to downtown Hollywood. They will be working on the film and most importantly setting up meeting around the country, particularly the vital interviews with those at the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Columbia University.

1st Draft of our Latest Feature Script Complete!

Good times at ASP, and the completion of the 1st draft of our latest script, 'The Kanun' (working title) only adds to the excitement in the air.

'The Kanun' is based on a true story, set in 1980s in Communist Albania. The story follows the lives of three young boys from Tropoja, in the Northern hills of Albania. The story takes the viewer on a real life journey through the hard days under the rule of Albania's then Dictator, Enver Hoxa. With blood feuds rife the boys must one day flee their homeland in order to find a better life for themselves and their families left behind. This is a story of survival, betrayal, redemption, sacrifice, and perhaps one day, happiness and success.