Cinema of Uganda
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Cinema of Uganda
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The emerging film industry in Uganda is known as Ugawood or sometimes Kinauganda by the locals. The 2005 production Feelings Struggle directed by Ashraf Ssemwogerere is credited with being the first Ugawood film.
Many have asserted that this steadily growing film industry is derived from Hollywood, in the same manner as Nollywood and Bollywood.
In a story that ran in a local newspaper in Uganda about the naming of the industry, filmmakers Kuddzu Isaac, Matt Bish and Usama Mukwaya were quoted as
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Uganda
date created:
2009-11-16T22:59:30Z
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2024-08-28T01:27:11Z
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