The Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development (PACEID) has announced a strategic public-private partnership with Hollywood’s Ryder Media and the private office of ...

“If we now try to involve the youth they will grow up… knowing that Uganda can make movies,” he says, “and then the industry will stay. So the youth are very vital in this.” But whatever ...

Bisaso Dauda isn’t your typical prop maker. Today, he’s building a full-sized helicopter from scrap metal. As he works away in Wakaliga, one of the poorer suburbs just outside of Kampala ...

Uganda's capital Kampala is home to a group of filmmakers making action-packed movies in an area called Wakaliwood. The ultra-violent films cover themes like Ebola and conflict, and can be filled ...

The director Cathryne Czubek’s documentary “Once Upon a Time in Uganda” is as playful as Nabwana’s audacious movies, explaining how the unlikely partnership between the Ugandan filmmaker ...

Plus there's mad maker/prop master Dauda, whose sheer glee at getting to make movies is infectious. But Once Upon a Time in Uganda isn't just a jolly depiction of a quirky bunch of outsiders.

The red carpet is being rolled out once again as the Uganda Film Festival (UFF) returns for its 12th edition, and this time, it’s all about homegrown voices and bold storytelling.At the Uganda ...

Two weeks later, Hofmanis was in Uganda, asking directions to Wakaliga, a slum in the capital of Kampala. “I think I bought the world’s most expensive movie tickets,” Hofmanis recalls ...

If the small screen (television shows) and silver screen (movies) are more lucrative than stand-up comedy, why haven’t Ugandan comedians transitioned to sitcoms and movies? “First of all, ...

Ugandan movie Taama by Arthur Nsubuga, which was nominated in the New Vision People's Choice Film Awards 2024, has reached the final stage of the Film Joint Competition in Nigeria, making it to ...