What is 'Uganda's Spielberg' that continues to shoot ultra-low budget action movies in African slums?
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Meet the Steven Spielberg of Wakaliwood-YouTube
Wakariga, a slum in Uganda's capital Kampala
The sign standing in the corner says 'Welcome to Ramon Film Productions Wakaliwood.'
At the shoot, a man wearing a Ramon Film Productions blue polo shirt shouts 'Action!' while holding the
Accompanied by that voice, an actor in the role of a military man holding a rifle plays a flashy action scene that kicks through the door of the house and pops out.
A director who skips instructions to the staff around him to shoot a shooting scene in the bush in front of the entrance.
The director's name is Isaac Nabwana Godfrey Geofrey. Founder of Ramon Film Productions and Wakaliwood.
More than 40 Wakaliwood movies made from 2005 to 2020. You will be producing at a pace of 2-3 lines a year.
In addition, all Wakaliwood movies are produced with a budget of about 200 dollars (about 21,000 yen). Considering that the budget of about 2.5 million yen to 3 million yen is required even in Japan, which is talked about as a low-budget movie, '
The main content of the movie is action. From radical shooting action……
Car chase action
Some stories are so big that the Eiffel Tower in Paris will explode.
The word 'Wakaliwood' is a word made by combining Wakariga and Hollywood. Isaac grew up watching Hollywood action and Kung Fu movies as a child, and in 2005 he took a video editing course on a PC, watched a movie-making tutorial movie, and founded Ramon Film Productions.
Mr. Isaac is also in charge of screenwriting, editing and filming, as well as directing.
In other words, one person, Isaac, is responsible for almost all of the filmmaking work.
However, there are also people from all over the world who are interested in Wakaliwood. Actor
As an actor, Hoffmannis enthusiastically teaches acting.
Most of the actors in the Wakaliwood movie are amateurs. Many people, such as nurses and lawyers, often appear in different professions, but Isaac says, 'If you see a movie, you're like a family.'
And the props that appear in the movie are DIY made from those in the slums.
Cutting a metal pipe with a cutter and welding it to make a shotgun for use in the play.
In particular, the helicopter made only of the skeleton part and the simple exterior is one of the props that the staff made by themselves, and since it appears in all the Wakaliwood movies, it is considered to be a symbol of Wakaliwood.
The following is what actually appeared in the early work of the Wakaliwood movie, 'Who Killed Captain Alex?' (Who killed Captain Alex?). In addition, 'Who Killed Captain Alex?' was released on YouTube in 2010, and made the opportunity for Wakaliwood to attract attention from all over the world.
The trailer of 'Who Killed Captain Alex?' looks like this. By the time the article was created, it has been played more than 3.5 million times.
The hit 'Who Killed Captain Alex?' triggered Isaac to be able to establish a full-scale movie production. “I'm not in a film college. I've never been to a film festival or won an award. My main goal in making a film is to make people enjoy it. People laugh when they see the work. It's a comedy. A life without a comedy is not a life.'
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