Sanyu Sandra 
Sanyu Sandra is a Ugandan filmmaker, poet, writer and visual storyteller whose work is speculative fiction. She began her filmmaking journey under the Sisi Film Lab in 2024, where she has written and directed five short films including Murder Chose Me (2025), The Game (2024), Hide (2024), All is Gone (2024), Body of evidence (2024). … Read more
I was inspired to join the film industry by watching Nigerian and Ghanaian movies from kibandas (shanty film halls) back then. I was admiring the way they did their thing because by then in Uganda it seemed impossible especially in Eastern Uganda where I grew up from. The first Ugandan film I watched was by … Read more
My film journey began last year in 2024 through Sisi Film Lab training. During this training I got the opportunity to make a few short films. The students I studied with will tell you about the murder freak I was, or I am (out of five student short films only one is a love story: … Read more
I’ve worked on a few film sets so let me honestly tell you that it’s an exhausting ride. I’m talking about long hours, tight schedules and functioning on a whole lot of coffee. During the Dissolution short film shoot, we were working with a 34 pages script for a two-day shoot. I mean, it’s ambitious, … Read more
Sisi Film Collective has conducted a yearlong film training and is now producing two short films. The films are a drama titled “People Like Them”, about a young social media influencer and activist who gets arrested alongside a victim of state violence and a science fiction titled “Atemel”, about a robotic Engineer who marries his … Read more
Photos have a way of saying things words cannot. They freeze little moments, a look, a laugh, a quiet pause, or the chaos of a film set and let you feel like you were right there. In this blog, it’s all about the pictures. From behind-the-scenes moments to real, raw faces of the people creating, … Read more
Ocakacon Raymond is an award-winning film maker based in Gulu city Uganda. He started his film career in 2011 as a script writer trained by Maisha film lab until 2015. As a passionate film maker, he upgraded his skills in film directing and editing from Mobile film school in 2018 and 2019 where he Obtained … Read more
I used to think movies just “happened.” You’d see them on TV and that was it. I didn’t know someone actually sat down to write them. But the day I saw a name in the credits, “written by” something clicked. I started asking questions. And when I found out a movie begins as just a … Read more
My name is Isaac Mutabazi, a filmmaker still in the becoming. But before this chapter began, there was a boy, barely past PLE, slipping into dimly lit kibanda’s with the neighborhood crew just to catch a glimpse of a world beyond. VJ Jingo was our narrator, who didn’t just translate, he performed. When he dropped … Read more
Filmmaking turned out to be more than just storytelling, it’s about living a story yourself! It became my ticket for exploring new places. In June 2023, I got a call to join the Film School in Kabale as one of the trainers. I boarded a midnight bus from Gulu carrying not just my hopes and … Read more