![]() ![]() ![]() “Africa’s Tarantino”), the “Wakaliwood” community of filmmakers he created and continues to motivate in the Kampala neighborhood of Wakaliga, and his unlikely friendship with a white New York fan named Alan Hofmanis who winds up promoting his films to the world.Ī brickmaker by trade, Nabwana likewise built his film empire from scratch, piece by piece, despite a near total lack of resources, ingeniously fashioning camera tripods from car jacks and training local kids in martial arts to appear in fight scenes as his own personal karate-kicking squadron of “Waka Starz.” Though SXSW 2020 was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, a digital sampler plate of the festival’s scheduled lineup nevertheless yielded three amazing documentaries to watch out for via a screening service (or, hopefully, eventually maybe even a theater) near you at some point in the future:Ĭo-directed by Cathryne Czubek and Hugo Perez, this uplifting, utterly charming documentary chronicles the inspiring tale of Isaac Nabwana (a.k.a. Nabwana I.G.G., a.k.a.
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