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Wrong Costume, Cut!

If there is one thing I have learned from Tatu Taps on Love Tv series, then it is patience. Real, deep patience. You’d think shooting a comedy would keep things light but behind the scenes? Eh, it’s a different story. … Read more
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Tatu Taps on Love BTS.

We started shooting a new TV series, Tatu Taps on Love. It’s a comedy about the unexpected thing people do when emotions are involved. It’s just the beginning but the comedy on set feels natural. Just curious about what the … Read more
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A Filmmaker Telling Stories.

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 … Read more
A young African girl is staring ahead of her. She is biting her lips.

For the Love of Film

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 … Read more
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Arua Film Lab Memory Lane

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 … Read more
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Set Designing

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. … Read more
A young black African man carrying a boom and wearing headphones. He is dressed in a white fly emirates shirt with red strips.

Aaron On Set

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 … Read more
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Murder Chose Me, Coming Soon.

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, … Read more
Actors during a scene.

The Short Film Struggle is Real.

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 … Read more

The Story of Frames and Memories

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 … Read more
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The Boy Who Asked How Films are Made.

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. … Read more
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A Young Filmmaker’s Katandika Butandisi.

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 … Read more