![]() ![]() The Industry also has a strong and acclaimed film player since 2013. The studio is best known for its 2010 film Who Killed Captain Alex?, which cost $85 to produce. Wakaliga near Kampala, has produced more than 40 low-budget action films over the last 10 years. Isaac Nabwana's Ramon Film Productions, based in Despite low production budgets, Uganda's film industry is quite productive. Other films are produced with DIY equipment and low production budgets. Some films are funded by NGOs through cultural grants. Patrons also rent DVDs and watch feature films on prime-time TV. Īudiences go to video halls where narrators called " video jokers" translate the dialogue and add their own commentary. In a story that ran in a local newspaper in Uganda about the naming of the industry, filmmakers Kuddzu Isaac, Matt Bish and Usama Mukwaya were quoted as saying that Ugawood would be the most appropriate name for the industry. Many have asserted that this steadily growing film industry is derived from Hollywood, in the same manner as Nollywood and Bollywood. The 2005 production Feelings Struggle directed by Ashraf Ssemwogerere is credited with being the first Ugawood film. ![]() The emerging film industry in Uganda is known as Ugawood or sometimes Kinauganda by the locals. ![]()
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