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Roger Ross Williams The Northampton Community College graduate is appearing on the Comedy Central show to promote his new film, "God Loves Uganda," according to the show's website.
The documentary explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in Uganda's push to make being gay punishable by death.
Williams, who is gay, was outed while he was filming in Uganda. Winning the Oscar saved his life, Williams said in a November interview with The Express-Times.The film subjects who confronted him about his sexuality had concluded he was too high-profile to kill, Williams said.
"We are not going to harm you," Williams said they told him. "We are going to cure you."
For the rest of his time in Uganda, many people prayed over him because they believe that, "You can pray the gay away," he said.
"That was it. He is sexually broken and he needs fixing and we'll pray for you. I just let them. But it didn't work," Williams said with a laugh.
"God Loves Uganda" premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and has seen much critical acclaim in the following months. It was named the best feature documentary at the Philadelphia Film Festival this fall among other accolades.
When his film "Music by Prudence" in 2010 won for the best documentary, short subjects category, Williams became the first African-American to win an Oscar for a film he directed and produced.