Global Voices Online

Uganda: Amakula Kampala Film Festival

Sunday, May 11th, 2008 @ 10:46 UTC

by Ndesanjo Macha

Countries:: Uganda
Topics:: Film
Languages:: English

Uganda Imsoniac attended the Amakula Kampala Film Festival in Uganda: “Every personality documentary film should make you feel comfortable and engage you. The director should make you love or loathe the character – it doesn’t really matter what – and you should just feel justified to do so and comfortable with your decision. In the case of Retour à Gorée (2007) which was shown at the Amakula Kampala Film Festival yesterday, the director Pierre-Yves Borgeaud hit all the right notes.”

Posted by Ndesanjo Macha

One Response to
“Uganda: Amakula Kampala Film Festival”

May 11th, 2008 at 19:55 pm
Mwangi - the Displaced African:
1
With the advent of streaming sites such as youtube, viddler and blip.tv, I hope that the organizers of these film festivals and the film makers can begin streaming or retailing live streaming of their films through the Internet.
I think this would prevent otherwise phenomenal films from fading into obscurity should they be unable to secure a distributor.
The film makers can also use avenues such as Global Voices Online to promote their films to their desired audiences.

Join the conversation

Recent Links also in Sub-Saharan Africa »

Hippo, a British expatriate living in Angola, has a long post about the changes the country is about to face with the new property law came into effect in Angola on the 15th of June. “On paper, we are worth a lot more than a week ago. Imagine how much more wealth will be generated with access to capital. Maybe the Economist should revise its forecast because there are a lot of us that cannot sleep at night. Not through worry, but through unaccustomed anticipation”

Antero Paiva [pt] uploads a few videos from Dailymontion user mariusangol showing Angola 34 years ago.

JotaCê Carranca [pt] blogs some interesting pictures sent by a reader of the blog, first a creative wooden vehicle which looks like a bike found in the streets of Bocoio, Angola; then a school in Libangue “in which there is nothing else apart from what you can see [in the photo]. Rocks are used as chairs and their knees are desks”.