My name is Nelly, but my National ID knows me as Nelson Okure. As a film enthusiast, I’ve always been fascinated by the art of storytelling. Growing up, I was exposed to various forms of cinema, from action-packed movies to thought-provoking dramas. But it wasn’t until I joined Sisi Film Lab Gulu that I discovered … Read more
The most exciting part of this whole film training was the very first time I finalized editing my very first experimental short film. It was called ‘the dead cat’ and my name appearing on the credits made me so overly excited…y’all must think it’s silly but it felt like a dream come true. I spent … Read more
Was looking at old photos of the Sisi Film Lab Arua training and realized how much time has passed since the beginning of the training early this year. Inspired, I decided to make a blog post of just photos because they hold the cutest memories of our students. So, here we go! These photos … Read more
Have you ever been at the Distories Film Studio? If you’ve ever been there, then you’ll understand what I mean when I say the space never stays the same. You come today and find it looking like a police cell. Then two days later it’s a restaurant, give it another week and you’ll walk into … 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
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
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