Interview With "Bobi Wine: The People's President" Directors Christopher Sharp & Moses Bwayo

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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"Bobi Wine: The People's President" had its world premiere at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival, screened out of competition but received critical acclaim. It would go on to receive the IDA Award for Best Feature Documentary and is now nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. Directors Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo were kind enough to spend a few minutes speaking with us about their six-year experience making the film. Please be sure to check out the Nat Geo documentary, which is now available to stream on Disney+ and is up for your consideration for Best Documentary Feature Film. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview,
0:05.3	with the directors for Bobby Wine, the people's president, Christopher Sharp and Moses Boiwayo.
0:13.2	I met Bobby at university. I didn't know he was a musician. He was different.
0:22.6	I didn't have so many dreams. I didn't know he was a musician, he was different. We are part of freedom. I didn't have so many dreams.
0:24.6	She impacted my life.
0:25.6	She made me realize we had to impact other lives.
0:28.6	I've come to parliament and taken an oath to protect the Constitution of Uganda.
0:34.6	Somebody had to speak for us.
0:36.6	People thought I had the loudest voice.
0:38.3	We have a party to be.
0:40.3	Again, one more confident time.
0:44.3	This year's presidential election could see 71-year-old President Yosevenyi serve a fifth term in office.
0:51.3	No leader has ever handed over power peacefully.
0:56.1	This is a military regime dressed in a civil facade.
1:01.6	We have the honorable Bobby Wine with us.
1:04.3	Moses and Christopher, thank you so much for your time.
1:07.1	Congratulations on all the success of the film.
1:09.8	I really love it, and I'm so glad people are seeing it.
1:12.6	So let's start right there with the Academy Award.
1:14.6	What's it been like since receiving this nomination for the film?
1:18.6	Well, it's been just fantastic.
1:20.6	I mean, you know, you start off with these projects.
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