Uma Thurman Signs On To Play Nun In Girl Soldiers
source: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=25366
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Uma Thurman must desperate for an Oscar, because she's signed up to play a crusading nun in her next movie, Girl Soldiers.
The story is set in Uganda and is based on the 1996 Aboke abductions, which saw 139 schoolgirls taken from their boarding school to be used as child soldiers and sex slaves. A nuns who taught at the school, called Sister Caroline who is in Kathy Cook's book on the tale, Stolen Angels. However Sister Rachele Fassera by birth, followed the abductors and negotiated the release of 109 of the girls. She then rallied the people, government, United Nations and Pope to try to end the abduction and indoctrination of child conscripts.
Directed Will Raee, had the screenplay written by Stephanie Pinola and Karen Croner, who previously worked on Dexterity and One True Thing. The film is produced by Caspian Pictures, who aims to make "socially conscious" and watchable films.
The story is set in Uganda and is based on the 1996 Aboke abductions, which saw 139 schoolgirls taken from their boarding school to be used as child soldiers and sex slaves. A nuns who taught at the school, called Sister Caroline who is in Kathy Cook's book on the tale, Stolen Angels. However Sister Rachele Fassera by birth, followed the abductors and negotiated the release of 109 of the girls. She then rallied the people, government, United Nations and Pope to try to end the abduction and indoctrination of child conscripts.
Directed Will Raee, had the screenplay written by Stephanie Pinola and Karen Croner, who previously worked on Dexterity and One True Thing. The film is produced by Caspian Pictures, who aims to make "socially conscious" and watchable films.
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