Industry Entertainment Founders Ramon Productions Area served Worldwide | Founded 2010 Headquarters Kampala, Uganda | |
Key people Nabwana IGG
(Chairman and CEO) | ||
Wakaliwood is a nickname for the film industry developing in Wakaliga, a slum in Uganda's capital Kampala. Its main director is Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey, who has been called Uganda's Tarantino, after the gratuitous violence in his films. Wakaliwood is best known for its low-budget (estimated to be in the region of $200) ultra-violent movies, such as Who Killed Captain Alex?, Tebaatusasula and the upcoming crowdsourced film, Tebaatusasula: EBOLA.
History
Alan Hofmanis, a film festival director who watched a trailer for Who Killed Captain Alex? on YouTube traveled to Isaac Nabwana's studio, and produced a documentary on the studio. The studio makes props and jibs out of DIY parts, which commentators have compared to the early days of Hollywood.
In Uganda, audiences go to video halls where VJs narrate over a feature film, translating the dialogue and adding their own commentary - making low budget films with VJ commentary like cult films.