According to people who know these things, December 10th is ‘Human Rights Day’, and in Vancouver, Amnesty International will be celebrating by sponsoring the premiere of Darfur, along with a Q & A by its director… Uwe Boll.

The movie stars Billy Zane and had a typo in the trailer, so either Amnesty International is unfamiliar with the man’s work, or they’re making people sit through one of his movies as a way to demonstrate that torture is wrong.  I can’t imagine what the Q & A will be about. Everyone knows the Sudan has only one true spokesperson, and that spokesperson is Bangs:

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Uwe Boll is a terrible filmmaker known mainly for making films about video games and for basically being that foreign exchange student who says funny things and then gets pissed when you laugh at him.  His latest attempt at relevance is a film about the genocide in Darfur, which stars Billy Zane and has a typo in the trailer.  Is anyone surprised?  It goes without saying that a country that endures endless civil war, genocide, and a generation of lost boys should not be forced to be the setting of a Uwe Boll film.  However, there’s reason to believe things in Sudan aren’t all sadness and AIDs, famine and Billy Zane.  Namely, this guy:
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