Super grateful to the organizers of the iKon Awards for awarding my documentary, #AHistoryOfFilmInUganda, over the weekend. Also special thanks to Dr. Anna Adima, the team at Goethe-Zentrum Kampala and Ssozi Joseph of Gorilla Creatives for co-producing this project. We did a thing! #IkonAwards2025

I sat down with South African filmmaker Damian Sean Samuels for an interview for People's Stories Project on his career, filmmaking ethos and the making of his film, #FinalNotice, that deals with the complex topic of euthanasia.

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Field Marshall John Okello and the Zanzibar Revolution - Part Four (Final)
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Field Marshall John Okello and the Zanzibar Revolution - Part Three
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Field Marshall John Okello and the Zanzibar Revolution - Part Two #Uganda #Zanzibar #ZanzibarRevolution #EastAfrica

Field Marshall John Okello and the Zanzibar Revolution - Part One #Ugandan #Zanzibar #ZanzibarRevolution #EastAfrica

Have you seen, #ManOfAfrica, a feature-length drama film shot in Uganda in the early 1950s with a Ugandan cast?

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A segment from #AHistoryOfFilmInUganda on the 1951 Hollywood film, #TheAfricanQueen starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn shot in colonial Uganda.

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A snippet from a chapter in #AHistoryOfFilmInUganda on colonial film policy in Uganda.

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The channel's premiere video essay #AHistoryOfFilmInUganda is available for viewing on #YouTube. The documentary provides a kaleidoscopic view of the birth & evolution of #filmmaking as a cultural practice in present-day #Uganda.
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