The Redemption of General Butt Naked
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A brutal African warlord turned Christian preacher seeks redemption from the skeptical survivors of Liberia and the rest of the international community.
Daniele Anastasion - Director, Producer
Daniele Anastasion is a Washington, D.C. based Writer, Director and Producer. Her credits include National Geographic Explorer’s Emmy-nominated Inside the Body Trade, where she field-produced an investigation of the international black market in human organs, and Inside the Ku Klux Klan, which she wrote and produced. Anastasion also shot and produced The Condom Controversy for FRONTLINE/World.
Eric Strauss - Director, Producer
Eric Strauss directed, shot and produced Heroin Crisis, a film about the global trail of Afghan heroin, and Iraq’s Guns for Hire, a profile of the private security industry in Iraq, both for National Geographic Explorer. His documentary work has been broadcast on National Geographic, Discovery Channel, History Channel and A&E. He is currently directing and producing Hard Time, a critically acclaimed prison series that premiered on the National Geographic Channel in March 2009.
We were drawn to the idea of telling a story from the perspective of a perpetrator, and hope to challenge audiences to re-examine their ideas about the nature of evil, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation. The structure sets up viewers to decide for themselves whether they accept Joshua's transformation.
