Background
Russell is the younger son of Sheryl and Paul Russell, co-founders of Christian Youth Theater, which Russell was part of as a child.
director human rights activist
Russell is the younger son of Sheryl and Paul Russell, co-founders of Christian Youth Theater, which Russell was part of as a child.
Russell graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
In the first two weeks it gained more than 83 million views on YouTube and became the subject of intensive media scrutiny and criticism. Its subject is the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, his alleged war crimes, and the movement to bring him to the International Criminal Court. Russell discussed acting in an interview when he was 13 years old: "That was my life.
lieutenant was what everybody around me did.
I didn"t even think about lieutenant I did my first show at 8, and I have done over 20 plays since.
You can"t do this if you don"t like lieutenant You have to commit yourself to lieutenant"
According to Russell, the trip was inspired by the 1993 death of Dan Eldon, who had been beaten to death while trying to document the ongoing famine in Somalia.
After Russell"s group reached the Sudan their caravan was attacked by the Lord"s Resistance Army, forcing a retreat to Northern Uganda.
During filming, the three men contracted malaria, but omitted covering their illness so that the documentary would remain focused on the children. The footage they shot resulted in the original Invisible Children documentary draft, which was first screened in June 2004. Russell and others returned to Uganda for six months in 2005 to collect more interviews and documentation for the next Invisible Children documentary.
In 2006, after the Washington District of Columbia screening of Russell and Poole"s rough cut, the United States. Congress approved discussion of the plight of the Acholi before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus.