Welcome to Wakaliwood
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Uganda's home-grown film industry is proving a hit on YouTube, but does it glorify violence? Ed Butler heads to Wakaliga on the outskirts of Kampala to investigate, only to get shot with fake bullets.
Programme features interviews with the American immigrant studio boss Alan Hofmanis, director and screenwriter Isaac Nabwana, special effects supremo Dauda Bisaso, and British fan Timon Singh of the Bristol Bad Film Club.
Expect the Unexpectable!
(Picture: Dauda Bisaso mans his home-made prop gatling gun; Credit: BBC)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC, |
| 0:06.0 | where today I'm in Uganda on the set of a rather remarkable film company. |
| 0:10.7 | This is serious. |
| 0:19.3 | Everybody in Uganda must go're going to food. |
| 0:22.9 | This is the work of what's called Wakaliwood, Uganda's film action comedy phenomenon. |
| 0:28.9 | It has a cult global following. |
| 0:30.7 | The film's been invited to Kazakhstan to Korea to Paris. |
| 0:33.9 | He's won awards. |
| 0:34.8 | You know, UK, I mean, all over. |
| 0:37.0 | And the US tour will be in the spring. |
| 0:39.1 | So look at the views. |
| 0:40.3 | Like, people love it. |
| 0:41.3 | All that to come in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:47.5 | I've come to a very dusty, dingy, extremely littered neighbourhood. |
| 0:54.6 | It's kind of a shanty,y really in one corner of Kampala. |
| 0:59.0 | It's called Wakhali. |
| 1:02.1 | This is the unlikely setting for Uganda's and possibly Africa's most extraordinary surprise cult movie production phenomenon. |
| 1:16.3 | It's called Wakali Woon. |
| 1:21.6 | Super Mafia! |
| 1:24.1 | Rapid action! |
| 1:25.9 | The films are the work of one company called Raymond Film Productions. |
| 1:30.7 | Over the last decade, they've made a number of movies, |
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