Cinema Halls are Empty When Local Movies are announced: Time to Unite and Work Together
Mediavision Academy’s director, Robert Nkambo, calls upon Ugandan filmmakers to join their efforts to ensure sustainable development in the national film industry, and major cinema projects. He was speaking to the Academy’s communication team in the immediate aftermath of an unsuccessful rendezvous at the Uganda National Theatre where filmmakers, cineastes, and lovers of cinema and culture meet once a month to watch a Ugandan new movie. “The screening of Shark Avenue , a feature movie directed by Joseph Ken Ssebaggala, was simply cancelled on Wednesday 2 November,” Nkambo, a film director and producer, said sadly. “No one turned out to the National Theatre for the film show”. Although some progress has been registered in the production of local feature films and television series in recent years, the locally produced films have a long way to go to attract larger audiences. The Uganda Cinema Night, a film show for strictly Ugandan movies, has spared no e...