Throughout the month of February, we're going to hear from the people behind documentaries

nominated for this year's Oscar Award.

Some of you know we do this every year.

We invite the directors of the Other media focus on, you know, Barbie and you know, lots of great films, but that are not

documentaries. We do the documentary track. So up first is the actual man behind the music we just heard Bobby Wine

Ugandan singer politician and subject of our first Oscar documentary

Bobby Wine the People's President.

The film spans the years 2016 to 2021, showing Bobby's rise in Ugandan politics

and the repression he faced while running for president in the with the director of the film Moses Brio Bobby and Moses welcome to WNYC thank you so much for coming on with us

Thank you. Thank you for having this

Bobby I'll say your story begins with an introduction of your wife Barbara or Barbie, not that Barbie.

Why start there?

Well, I, in many ways ways our lives are one and the same. There probably wouldn't be a

Bobby without Bobby. Yes, and Moses, for your first question, this documentary encompasses the years of 2016 to 2021.

As I said, tell her... the years of 2016 to 2021.

As I said, tell our listeners completely unfamiliar

with Bobby I, completely unfamiliar with Ugandan politics.

Why did you decide to start documenting this story and even before he ran for president?

Thank you for having us Brian. Bobby is such an incredible character. You know he

had just gotten into Parliament and he was

speaking to my heart and many others like me, you know youth in Uganda and he

know he was asking all of us to get involved.

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