The pantheon of comedians of Wakaliwood wearing the characters’ outfits used in some movies produced by Ramon Film Studio, during the shooting of a promotion video for social media. On the left, children from the area watch upon. The adults stayed at a respectable distance behind. Isaac Nabwana has the reputation of a witch doctor. In his movies, doesn’t he get rid of people that you meet the next day in the streets of Wakaliga, does’nt he make objects fly or doesn’t he explose anything he wants ? Amongst them, Charles Bukenya (white tunique), a.k.a. Uncle Ben & Kizza Manisuru a.k.a. Kiman Lee, karatéka. Charles Bukenya has taken his distance from Wakaliwood, being frustrated not to get paid.
Wakaliga suburbs was for a long time a dump site in Kampala. From august 1972, when Idi Amin Dada orders the expulsion of the Indian community, their personal effects were found in the dump. Thousands of copies of the book « Song of Lawino », an epic poem written by Okot p’Bitek in 1966, refusing to go back to Uganda during Amin’s reign, were thrown away, in retaliation. Isaac remembers the smell, the flies and to have collect a sample of the book. During Obote’s dictatorship, even body parts were found there.
While a comedian puts on his cannibal outfit made in real goat bones, an actress sends text message. This outfit is worn in « Bukunja tekunja mitti » movie (« People of Bukunia do not eat trees » implying that they eat people). When Ramon Film Productions was shooting that movie, a team had been build up to collect dead wandering dogs’ bones in the ghetto of Wakaliga : the bone squad. Charles Bukenya looks inside the room, in his « Uncle Ben » outfit, a regular character.
Alan Hofmanis shows to Henry Kato Magumba, « The Barbarian » (left), actor, stuntman and graphic designer, a logo that he wants him to draw on a poster, in order to put it on social media, for the promotion of Wakaliwood. Around them, some comedians. This room was first a pigsty, then a henhouse before Isaac Nabwana transforms it in a library for the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. Alas, without electricity at that period, nobody could read books in the evening, at the time when the maximum potential readers were available. Finally, the room became the base for rehearsing, the stocking place of Wakaliwood and a dormitory where several actors live permanently.
The first editing studio of Isaac Nabwana, a room in his house in Wakaliga area. His editing computer was the vertical black one set on a desk. The screen, the white dusty one in the middle. By lack of means, ICG did not have external hard drives to save his editing. While a movie was edited and copied on a DVD, he had to erase the editing to start a new one.
The first editing studio of Isaac Nabwana, a room in his house in Wakaliga area. His editing computer was the vertical black one set on a desk. The screen, the white dusty one in the middle. By lack of means, ICG did not have external hard drives to save his editing. While a movie was edited and copied on a DVD, he had to erase the editing to start a new one.
Kazibwe Ronald, Wakaliwood comedian sleeps there because he can’t offer to pay a rent. When evening comes, he unrolls a mattress in the rehearsing and stocking room for outfits and equipment. One of the roles that he performs in the galaxy of characters of Wakaliwood is Michael Jackson. The story started when he acts as a Mzungu (a white man) in a movie. Some one says that he looks like Michael Jackson with his white painted face. An outfit and a black suit were found. He put on a pair of white socks as gloves. Voila ! In the beginning, the makeup was made with eggs that needed a long time to dry. Since, make-up has been bought.
Kazibwe Ronald, Wakaliwood comedian on a makeshift pontoon over a gutter in the ghetto of Wakaliga, while a restaurant owner brings back to her restaurant some plates emptied by customers in their work place. One of the roles that Ronald a.k.a General Placebo performs in the galaxy of characters of Wakaliwood is Michael Jackson. The story started when he acts as a Mzungu (a white man) in a movie. Some one says that he looks like Michael Jackson with his white painted face. An outfit and a black suit were found. He put on a pair of white socks as gloves. Voila ! In the beginning, the makeup was made with eggs that needed a long time to dry. Since, makeup is bought.
When the shooting days are over (Wednesday & Saturday usually), Wakaliwood’s actors sit in the rehearsing and stocking room and listen to Isaac while he drones out the news and the planning of the shooting to come and speaks of any issues. Wakaliwood has a very democratic creation process (the scenarios and the dialogues are discussed and create in commun) and decision process (the eventual return of an actor into the fold of Wakaliwood following his exclusion because he has broken the rules).
Comedians-technicians set on a wall of Isaac Nabwana house (ICG) a green chroma key background to make incrustations in post-production, for the special effects. The house of ICG is divided in 2 parts. One where he lives, another where his editing studio is installed. The set is ICG’s family courtyard where many scenes are shot. In general, Isaac shots in his area, in the ghetto. He does not try to tell the story of rich people who have succeeded. He has noticed that the Uganda audience identifies more with storylines which shows their environment and their life : «A life in the ghetto, a good life but hostile.»
The Waka Starz, a group of young children practicing Kung-Fu trains in the family plot of Isaac Nabwana, the creator of Wakaliwood, twice a week. The children are apprentice comedians and had the leading role in the movie « Crazy world » about ritual crimes on children. People think that Isaac is a wealthy man because he makes films and receives the visit of many white people. Fearing his children to be kidnapped again ransom on their way to school, he encourage them to learn how to defend themselves. Their professor is self-taught Kung Fu Master Charles Bukenya, whose teacher is Grand Master Robert Kizito, half-brother of Isaac Nabwana. The son of Charles is amongst the students (3rd from right), so is the daughter of Isaac, Rachel (in pink).
From right to left: Rachel, Newton and Gitti, children of Isaac Nabwana and members of the Waka Starz, a group child actors, practice Kung-Fu trains in their family plot. People think that Isaac is a wealthy man because he makes films and receives the visit of many white people. Fearing his children to be kidnapped again ransom on their way to school, he encourage them to learn how to defend themselves.
While her father, Isaac Nabwana shoots her, Racheal M. Natembo, dances and mimes the lyrics of her latest song, during the shooting of the video clip in the family compound.
Successively technicians, stuntmen, actors, the crew of Wakaliga goes on the shooting place of « Kakongoliro operation » (Very dangerous operation), « The Ugandan Expendables », on the edge of their suburbs, in a repair shop of lorry and building place for iron tanks. Wakaliga suburbs was for a long time a dump site in Kampala. From 1972, when Idi Amin Dada orders the expulsion of the Indian community, their personal effects were found in the dump. Thousands of copies of the book « Song of Lawino », an epic poem written by Okot p’biter in 1966, who refused to go back to Uganda during Amin’s reign, were thrown away, in retaliation. Isaac remembers the smell, the flies and to have collect a sample of the book. During Obote’s dictatorship, even body parts could be found there.
The actors-stuntmen dress up. Today they shoot in a building shop for iron tanks an action sequence of « Kakongoliro operation » (Very dangerous operation), « The Ugandan Expendables ».
Adjustment and rehearsal of a close combat scene for the director ICG in blue polo for « Operation Kakongoliro " (Very dangerous operation) the Ugandan version of « The Expendables ». The decor is a building shop of iron tanks in the popular area of Wakaliga. On the right, with the grey shirt, Alan Hofmanis, an american who left everything to come to work with Isaac, after having watched 40 seconds of a trailer of one of his movies, shown by a friend in Manhattan. He worked for a long time in independent cinema.
Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana shoots the last fight of the day between Charles Bukenya, Martial Art teacher, actor and stunt in Wakaliwood and Kizza Manisuru Ssejjemba. The meticulously choreographed Kung-Fu fights are the trademark of Wakaliwood movies. At the end of the shooting, that day, policemen will ask ICG to come along to the station for verification. Their superior very confuse will let him go as his children are going to a primary school built on a plot belonging to ICG, in Wakaliga. The policemen said that their intervention was conducted because of a complaint. More likely, they were trying to get some « tip ».
The props man, the ingenious Daouda Bisaso fixes on the chest of a stuntman, a plastic strip on which is glued, with mastic, the handle of a knife. This is the first time that Wakaliwood uses this trick. Dada Bisaso spent a week to do DIY it.
During the shooting of « Operation Kakongoliro » (Very dangerous operation) « The Ugandan Expendables », the hero, « Day Drinking Officer » a.k.a DDO, an always drunk policeman triumphs of a bad guy by planting a knife in his heart. The blood contained in a pocket that the actor hides in his hand, spells all over the teeshirt.
Isaac Nabwana shoots Apollo in the role of an hoodlum killed by a good guy. A condom filled with food color is tied with a plastic ribbon around the chest of Apollo. A metal ring is glued to the condom and attached by a fishing line that Daouda, the props man and the ingenious guy of Wakaliwood holds. A notch is made in the teeshirt. At the appropriate time, Daouda pulls the nylon line. The condom explodes, the hemoglobin squirts. In the past, the blood was real cow blood which could incommodes the comedians. Some of them were getting sick after having accidentally swallowed it.
A group of hoodlums point their guns to the hero, off-camera. In a few seconds, they will play their death, shot by several bullets... In Wakaliwood movie, there are always tenths of gangsters whose main action is to be killed by the good guys. Being not numerous, the actors playing the bad guys wear a balaclava most of the time. This allow them to be killed many times with different clothes, multiplying the number of dead bodies.
In the courtyard of the family plot of Isaac Nabwana (ICG), the director, some comedians move a piece of decor to make space for the shooting of a scene. The element is a police post, build in metal by Dauda Bisaso (man with a cap, foreground). As the inhabitants of the area were coming to lodge a complaint, believing that the decor was a real police post, ICG asked that the inscription Police would be changed in Bolice, to avoid confusion.
Comedians of Ramon Studio, known worldwide as Wakaliwood, Ivan Wong Ssenyondo Kung Fu Master (splits), teacher in Martial Art School Country Wing, Charles Bukenya (right) another Master, Henry "The Barbarian" (left) and Kizza Manisuru Ssejjemba, a masked karateka do a stunt for a fight scene, in the outreach and popular area of Wakaliga. The scene is a purple passage of « Operation Kakongoliro » (Very dangerous operation), the Ugandan version of « The Expendables ». Presently, the movie only exist as a trailer. To allow actors and stunts to make a living, as Wakaliwood does not have the means to pay them, the days of shooting are Wednesday and Saturday. The rest of the time, everyone tries to sustain to his family needs with jobs.
In his family courtyard, Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana shoots a fight scene adjusted by Master Ivan Wong Ssenyondo, (left, laying low) stuntman and Martial Art teacher at Country Wing School which allows him to make a living. Wakaliwood does not have the means to pay its actors. Ivan represented Uganda in an international Kung Fu competition in Iran in 2011, with Robert Kizito, the Kung Fu Grand Master (brother of Isaac). Charles Bukenya (risen foot) another Kung Fu Master and Henry the « Barbarian » (crouching down) are part of the shooting. ICG always tries to shoot fight scenes that he has not created before. He does not like his audience to get a feeling of deja-vu. Hence, he depends on the imagination and the creativity of Kung Fu experts operating regularly in his movies: Ivan, Charles and Robert his brother. Charles Bukenya and Ivan Wong Ssenyondo are Masters as they belong to the first generation trained by Robert. Few had their constancy.
Charles Bukenya, Martial Art teacher, actor and stuntman in Wakaliwood. His work in cinema is inspired by Bruce Lee and the Chinese movies. His face is covered with fake blood, food color mixed with water. In the past, the blood was real cow blood which incommodes some comedians. Some of them were getting sick after accidentally swallowing it. They had to endlessly take antibiotics. For some time, Charles distances himself from Wakaliwood as he would like to be paid for his performances.
Bashir young comedian, around 15 years old, new in Wakaliwood. No one really knows where he comes from. His father may be Tanzanian. Isaac Godfrey Nabwana welcomes anyone who wishes to join Wakaliwood. When an actor reaches and says: « I can do this or that », Isaac answers invariably : « In Wakaliwood, we do not want actors who can do this or that but who wants. »
Appollo ASIIMWE, stuntman and actor of Ramon Studio strikes the pose with a machine gun made by Daouda Bisaso, the prop-man.
Brenda Nantume, hairdresser to make a living, in hoodlum’s outfit, holds her daughter. She covers about 30 kms to be part of the shooting.
Mwebaza Suzan Faridah, Law student and actress, in the village of Kaliti in the district of Wakiso, around 30 kms away from Kampala, where Ramon Studio shots « Eaten alive » a movie inspired by a cannibalism case which happened few years ago in western Uganda. She plays the role of the wife of a mzungu (white man) who came to visit his family-in-law and who finally ended up eaten by cannibals.
Members of Ramon Studio fill with goat meat the hollow leg of a plastic dummy for a special effect: the cutting of a human leg that cannibals will devour straight away. ICG and his team shoot « Eaten alive » a movie inspired by a cannibalism case which happened a few years ago in western Uganda.
In Kaliti village, 30 kms away from Kampala, an actor plays the part of a zombie walking in the night on a road. Behind him, Daouda, the props man creates a dust cloud with an air compressor, while a comedian lights up the scene. In the bush, Ramon Studio shoots « Eaten alive » a movie inspired by a cannibalism case which happened a few years ago in western Uganda.
The character played by Alan Hofmanis caught by a group of cannibals has been dragged to their den to be devoured. Isaac Nabwana shoots « Eaten alive » a movie inspired by a cannibalism case which happened a few years ago in western Uganda. Alan plays the role of the husband of an Ugandan lady who came to Uganda to meet his family in law. He will ended up eaten by cannibals because of his nosiness.
In Kaliti village, 30 kms away from Kampala, Daouda Bisaso, props man, actor and creator of the props of Ramon Studio plays the role of an husband whose wife is eaten alive by cannibals in the movie « Eaten alive ». In the scene, he witnesses helpless the cutting up of his spouse. Blood, food color, squirts on his face.
Kaliti village, 30 kms away from Kampala. Family picture of actors of Ramon Studio, in cannibal outfits. On the land of the mother of one of the comedians, Isaac Nabwana shoots all night long, in the bush « Eaten alive » a movie inspired by a cannibalism case which happened a few years ago in western Uganda.
The Waka Starz, apprentice comedians of Wakaliwood, in outfit, wait in the shade in the family compound of Isaac Nabwana, to shoot a video clip of Racheal M. Natembo latest song. Racheal is the elder daughter of Isaac.
In a street of Wakaliga next to the family compound of Isaac Nabwana, Wakaliwood shoots a video clip of a song of Racheal M. Natembo, the elder daughter of Isaac. Wearing hat and checked outfit The Waka Starz, apprentice comedians of Wakaliwood, danse behind Rachel (yelllow), while Gitti Nakasujja, the mother (black teeshirt) and a friend encourage them. Behind a tripod, Isaac (blue) shoots.
In a street of a remote area of Kampala, during the shooting of a scene of a musical, coproduction between Wakaliwood and a musical producer, Isaac Nabwana listen to his daughter, Racheal M. Natembo, main character, rehearsing her song.
In a street of a remote area of Kampala, shooting of a scene of a musical, coproduction between Wakaliwood and a musical producer of Kampala (green), starring Waka Starz, Wakaliga children actors and the Ghetto Kids Triplets (red), a famous group of Ugandan child dancers. The man with the cap, Ronald Kazibwe, a.k.a Sergi, a.k.a General Placebo, is a mainstay actor of Wakaliwood.
In a night club, actors play the role of spectators. The shooting is a musical, coproduction between Wakaliwood and a musical producer of Kampala, starring Waka Starz, Wakaliga children actors and the Ghetto Kids Triplets, a famous group of Ugandan child dancers.
Kasekende Mustafa KATWALO a.k.a. Mustafa Lee, the main actor in « Once a soldier » movie works his abdominals by lifting hollow bricks at feet’s length. He is one of the new faces of Wakaliwood. Regularly, young people come to see Isaac to play in his movie. He uses to tell them. « I am not interested by what you can act but what you can do ». For him, an actor in Wakaliwood must practice sport, specifically Martial Arts and must be able to execute his own stunts which can go as far as diving and crawling in a gutter.
Half-brother of Isaac Nabwana, the director/producer of Wakaliwood, Robert Kizito (white teeshirt walking between the ranks) gives his Kung Fu class every Sunday on a football pitch in the out of the way area of Natete. Amongst the assistance, three actors. Mastering of Kung Fu is an essential asset to interpret the characters of actions movies where Martial Arts are an indispensable ingredient. Unique Kung Fu Grand Master in Uganda, Robert Kizito is self-taught and learnt Kung Fu when he was 18, early 90’s, by watching Bruce Lee movies, in slum cinemas: small sheds where the audience pays to see films on TV screens. By miming the movies to Isaac, his brother, he gave him the virus of Cinema. Robert define himself as an apostle in Kung Fu who gives his teaching in numerous places of the city.
Half-brother of Isaac Nabwana, the director/producer of Wakaliwood, Robert Kizito (white teeshirt) gives his Kung Fu class every Sunday on a football pitch in the out of the way area of Natete. Amongst the assistance, Wakaliwood actors Kasekende Mustafa KATWALO a.k.a. Mustafa Lee (left) and Ronald Kazibwe, ak.a. General Placebo (right). The mastering of Kung Fu is an essential asset to interpret the characters of actions movies where Martial Arts are an indispensable ingredient. Unique Kung Fu Grand Master in Uganda, Robert Kizito is self-taught and learnt Kung Fu when he was 18, in early 90’s, by watching Bruce Lee movies, in slum cinemas: small sheds where the audience pays to see films on TV screens. By miming the movies to Isaac, his brother, he gave him the virus of Cinema. Robert define himself as an apostle in Kung Fu who gives his teaching in numerous places of the city.
In the family compound of Isaac Nabwana, main set of Wakaliwood (Isaac’s house is the one in red bricks), a video clip is shot. The singer, Ronald Buryahika (arms wide opened) is a Wakaliwood actor and religious hits singer. He wants to post his clip on a YouTube channel where all Ugandan singers are present to be known. A part of the choir is from Wakaliwood, while others are parishioners of his church.
Alan Hofmanis (left) as Jesus Christ for the shooting of a videoclip for Ronald Buryahika, a Wakaliwood actor and religious hits singer. The shooting happens on the main set of Wakaliwood, the courtyard of the family plot of Isaac Nabwana (ICG). Being not in the shot, Alan holds the reflector to light the choir out of which some are Wakaliwood actors, while others are parishioners of the singer’s church.
In a supermarket in the city centre, Daouda Bisaso, the props man and Alan Hofmanis look for small scale model resembling to the vehicles that can be found in the capital city. ICG will make them explode in a movie, thanks to special effects.
In the room where he lives, sleep and works, Alan edit a multilingual version of “Bad Black”, a movie in which he plays. The movie was presented in MOMA, in New York, in march 2019.
After 5 months spent in Europe and in the United States to create opportunities for Wakaliwood movies in Festival, to try to plan premiere around the world, and to find partners or money, Alan Hofmanis is back in Wakaliwood, welcomed by the actors.
One day, Daouda Bisaso, the prop-man heard Isaac Nabwana says that a chopper could be a nice prop to shoot action movie. Never mind. In the courtyard of Wakaliwood, Daouda builds an helicopter, using salvaged pieces of iron and buying sheets to make the body.
While outside actors and stunts build the decor of a jail for the action scenes which have to be shot in the afternoon, some actresses and the stuntman Appollo ASIIMWE rest and wait in the rehearsing room. Hawah Nabatanzi a.k.a. Nahacruise came with her son. In yellow trousers, behind, Ritah Namutebi, the new female Kung Fu star of Wakaliwood.
Wakaliwood actors joke while building a decor, a jail, for the afternoon shooting: the TV series « Who killed Captain Alex ». The series is inspired by the first ever Ugandan action movie, homonym, shot by Isaac, watched millions times on YouTube and in which Charles Bukenya, Kung Fu Master plays for the first time.
Dauda Bisaso wears a shoulder strap machine gun that he made himself, inspired by the one used in « Terminator » with Schwarzenegger and in « Expendables » with Stallone. This prop in iron, very heavy, is equipped with a small internal combustion engine which makes the barrel of the gun turned... Isaac, the director, loves that the weapons that he used in his movies are original creations.
A part of the gang of hoodlums killed during the shooting of « Operation Kakongoliro » (Very dangerous operation) « The Ugandan Expendables » in a corner of the family plot of Isaac Nabwana in Wakaliga. ICG will add some sound effects and special effects (explosions, gunshots) in post production. Creating for more than 10 years, he has gathered a sound and special effects library with no equivalent in the Ugandan Cinema world.
While Isaac Nabwana looks on and jokes, Ritha, the heroine of the movie series « Who killed Captain Alex » dust the back head of Apollo. In the same time, Isaac’s wife prepare the special effect of blood geyser spurting out of a shot vilain body. Condoms filled with food color are tied with a plastic ribbon around the chest of Apollo, who plays the role of a bad guy El-Shabaab look like. A metal ring will be glued to the condom, a notch made in the teeshirt. Through the notch, a fishing line attached to the metal ring will be pulled by an assistant at the appropriate time. The condom explodes, the hemoglobin squirts. In the past, the blood was real cow blood which could incommodes the comedians. Some of them were getting sick after having accidentally swallowed it.
Ritah shoots a scene on a set, figuring a jail, built in the family compound of Isaac Nabwana, the soul, creator and director of Wakaliwood. She is the first ever heroine of Wakaliwood, the main character in « Who killed Captain Alex » a TV series, inspired from the namesake movie, considered to be the first ever Uganda action movie and seen millions time on YouTube. To attract more audience attention, Isaac, wanted to have, for the first time, a heroine. Pregnant and mother of a little girl since, she has suspended her carrier.
A look-like Al-shebaab vilain dies in a whirlwind of blood, shot by the nice guy, in « Once a soldier » movie, while Isaac Nabwana the director shoots. Condoms filled with food color are tied with a plastic ribbon around the chest of a stuntman. A metal ring will be glued to the condom, a notch made in the teeshirt. Through the notch, a fishing line attached to the metal ring will be pulled by an assistant at the appropriate time. The condom explodes, the hemoglobin squirts. In the past, the blood was real cow blood which could incommodes the comedians. Some of them were getting sick after having accidentally swallowed it. For days they were suffering from stomach ache.
In Wakaliga slum, Issac shows Ritha, how he wants her to use her gun, for a scene shot in a jail decor, built in his courtyard. She is the first ever heroine of Wakaliwood, the main character in « Who killed Captain Alex » a TV series, inspired from the namesake movie, considered to be the first ever Uganda action movie and seen millions time on YouTube. To attract more audience attention, Isaac, wanted to have, for the first time, a heroine.
In Ramon Studio, a family compound in Wakaliga slum, Isaac Nabwana, the director of Wakaliwood, looks for the frame of the next shot while his actors look on.
Kung Fu fight between Kasekende Mustafa KATWALO (in shorts) a.k.a. Mustafa Lee, the hero of « Once a soldier » and the villains, in a street of Mogadishu reconstituted in the courtyard of Isaac Nabwana, the director of Wakaliwood.
Kasekende Mustafa KATWALO a.k.a. Mustafa Lee, main actor of « Once a soldier » movie recovers from his efforts and several shots of Kung Fu fights, after having rolled many times in a puddle of muddy water.
In the family compound of Issac Nabwana, main shooting set of Wakaliwood, the decor of the day is a jail, ready for the shooting of the next day.
Bisaso DAUDA alias Gadhafi, propsman, stuntman, set designer and actor in Wakaliwood, the independent film studio set up in the Wakaliga slum, rides a motorbike loaned by a friend, wearing a monkey-designed helmet, an accessory for future shooting, in the courtyard of the family plot of Isaac Nabwana, the creator and director of Wakaliwood. Behind him stands the helicopter that Dauda is gradually building with scrap metal for future action films.
Two main actors, stunt and kung fu practitioners of Wakaliwood, Appollo ASIIMWE and Kasekende Mustafa KATWALO a.k.a. Mustafa Lee fight each other in a remake of the Japanese Movie, Rashomon. The project is sponsored and initiated by a French artist, Louis Cyprien, presented in Paris in February 2019.
While Gitti Nakasujja, the wife of Isaac Nabwana, the creator and director of Wakaliwood, sits in the chopper, some actors are preparing the set for the night shooting of « Eaten Alive », in the courtyard of Wakaliwood. The set is a village where lives some cannibals / zombies. They build some facade of hut made in mud, and a half of the thatched roofs. The production of « EatenAlive », started few years back and was on stand by since. Isaac Nabwana carries on the shooting now. The story is about zombies eating people, and quite hard to kill. The story moved on in a fantastic genre quiet different from the short news items (a trivialities - faits-divers in French) it was inspired in the first place. In fact, years back, Ugandan travellers were being eaten in Western Uganda.
The actors move away the chopper to get enough space for the shooting of the night sequences of « Eaten Alive », in the courtyard of Wakaliwood. The set is a village where lives some cannibals / zombies. It was build in the afternoon by the actors themselves : some facade of huts made in mud, and half of some thatched roofs. To get more space, the rear of the helicopter has been take off.
Gitti Nakasujja, the wife of Isaac Nabwana makes up the faces of the actors who are playing the part of the zombies / cannibals in the night sequence of « Eaten Alive ». To create an effect of falling and bleeding skin, she uses toilet paper dipped in food coloring agent. The production of « EatenAlive », started few years back and was on stand by since. Isaac Nabwana carries on the shooting now. The story is about zombies eating people, and quiet hard to kill. The story moved on in a fantastic genre quiet different from the short news items (a trivialities - faits-divers in French) it was inspired in the first place. In fact, years back, Ugandan travellers were being eaten in Western Uganda
Isaac Nabwana the creator and director of Wakaliwood shoots some night sequences of his movie « Eaten Alive », in the courtyard of Wakaliwood. The set is a village where lives some cannibals / zombies. The production of « EatenAlive », started few years back and was on stand by since. Isaac Nabwana carries on the shooting now. The story is about zombies eating people, and quiet hard to kill. The story moved on in a fantastic genre quiet different from the short news items (a trivialities - faits-divers in French) it was inspired in the first place. In fact, years back, Ugandan travelers were being eaten in Western Uganda.
Some characters of a shooting in Wakaliwood, in the courtyard of the director / creator of Wakaliwood, Isaac Nabwana, in Wakaliga, a slum village on the outskirts of Kampala. The production of « EatenAlive », started few years back. Isaac Nabwana carries on the shooting now. The story is about zombies eating people, and quite difficult to kill. The story moved on in a fantastic genre, different from the short news items (a trivialities - faits-divers in French) from which it was inspired. In fact, years back, Ugandan travellers were being eaten in Western Uganda.
In a scene of the zombie like comedy movie “Eaten alivie”, shot on Wakaliwood set, the family courtyard of Isaac Nabwana, a body guard armed with a machine gun explores the village of zombies, while one of them is approaching from behind to attack him.
Gitti, the last born child of Isaac Nabwana (out of 3) plays a character of "Eaten Alive" a zombie like comedy, shot in the courtyard of the director / creator of Wakaliwood, Isaac Nabwana, in Wakaliga, a slum village on the outskirts of Kampala, the Uganda’s capital. The production of « EatenAlive », started few years back. The story is about zombies eating people, and quite difficult to kill. The story moved on in a fantastic genre, different from the short news items (a trivialities - faits-divers in French) from which it was inspired. In fact, years back, Ugandan travellers were being eaten in Western Uganda.
An actor is about to pull a fishing line attached to a condom full of food color, hidden under the bloody shirt of a zombie, for a special effect of blood geyser during the shooting of "Eaten Alive" a zombie like comedy movie. The production of « EatenAlive », started few years back. Isaac Nabwana carries on the shooting now.
Isaac Nabwana shows to a Canadian fan (sitting with blond bear) who turn actor in the movie "Eaten Alive" how he wants him to react. Alan Hofmanis who played a character sits on a table. The shooting occurs in the courtyard of the director / creator of Wakaliwood, Isaac Nabwana. The production of « EatenAlive », started few years back. Isaac Nabwana carries on the shooting now. The story is about zombies eating people, and quite difficult to kill. The story moved on in a fantastic genre, different from the short news items (a trivialities - faits-divers in French) from which it was inspired. In fact, years back, Ugandan travellers were being eaten in Western Uganda
In the courtyard of Wakaliwood, during the shooting of the night sequences of « Eaten Alive », a movie inspired by a cannibalism case that happened a few years ago in western Uganda, Appollo ASIIMWE, stuntman and actor of Ramon Studio waits the cue to play his part. His male-up has been done by Gitti Nakasujja, the wife of Isaac Nabwana the soul of Wakaliwood. The effect of bleeding skin is obtained with toilet paper dipped in food color agent.
Since Isaac Nabwana got a laptop from an American fan, more than a year ago, he edits his movie either in his room, lying on his bed or outside in the courtyard when it is too hot in the house.
In the cinema hall that he rents (a long shed with paperboard and wooden walls), VJ (Video Jockey) Emmie (1st row sitting in front of the screens) comments on live in Luganda, a local langage widely spoken in Uganda, a movie for the audience. The role of a VJ is to spice a movie with his jokes, the use of full of imagery expressions, the tone, the rythme, the laugh, the turn of phrase and any dialogue that he may add. Emmie is part of the Wakaliwood family. He comments on every movie and his commentary is part of the movie. According to Isaac Nabwana, he can’t conceive a movie without VJ Emmie’s commentary. The spectators pay 300 shillings (10 cents of a $) for any movie, 500 (15 cents of $) for an American blockbuster and 1.000 (33 cents of $) for a Wakaliga movie.