Exclusive: Yellow Veil Pictures and Drafthouse Films have co-acquired North American rights to the documentary Cathryne Czubek’s documentary Once Upon A Time Uganda.
The work revolves around the unlikely friendship between Uganda’s answer to Quentin Tarantino, filmmaker Isaac Nabwana, and American film programmer Alan Hofmanis, who moves to the East African country to collaborate on his films.
Against the backdrop of Wakaliga, a slum in Uganda’s capital of Kampala, the pair unite over their shared love of Chuck Norris and gonzo 80’s action flicks and ambitions to catapult ‘Wakaliwood’ to international stardom.
The film was originally due to world premiere at the canceled 2020 edition of SXSW but then debuted at DocNYC, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Competition.
The distributors are planning a theatrical release with an exclusive week run with Alamo Drafthouse theaters starting July 4th before expanding to additional markets.
The work revolves around the unlikely friendship between Uganda’s answer to Quentin Tarantino, filmmaker Isaac Nabwana, and American film programmer Alan Hofmanis, who moves to the East African country to collaborate on his films.
Against the backdrop of Wakaliga, a slum in Uganda’s capital of Kampala, the pair unite over their shared love of Chuck Norris and gonzo 80’s action flicks and ambitions to catapult ‘Wakaliwood’ to international stardom.
The film was originally due to world premiere at the canceled 2020 edition of SXSW but then debuted at DocNYC, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Competition.
The distributors are planning a theatrical release with an exclusive week run with Alamo Drafthouse theaters starting July 4th before expanding to additional markets.
- 4/25/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
UK sales and distribution outfit Blue Finch Films has boarded worldwide rights to the documentary Once Upon A Time In Uganda, which is set to have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest next month.
Set in the slums of Uganda, the film follows two men from opposite sides of the world who comes together over a shared love for Chuck Norris. Isaac, a former brick maker in Uganda, decides to pick up a camera and start shooting his own ‘80s inspired action epics, and Alan, a film nerd from New York gives up his life in America to join forces with Isaac after seeing a trailer for one of his films online. The pair end up finding internet fame with their work from ‘Wakaliwood’.
Cathryne Czubek directed, wrote and produced the movie. Amanda Hughes was co-writer. Gigi Dement, Matt Porwoll and Hugo Perez co-produced; the latter also co-directed.
“Once Upon...
Set in the slums of Uganda, the film follows two men from opposite sides of the world who comes together over a shared love for Chuck Norris. Isaac, a former brick maker in Uganda, decides to pick up a camera and start shooting his own ‘80s inspired action epics, and Alan, a film nerd from New York gives up his life in America to join forces with Isaac after seeing a trailer for one of his films online. The pair end up finding internet fame with their work from ‘Wakaliwood’.
Cathryne Czubek directed, wrote and produced the movie. Amanda Hughes was co-writer. Gigi Dement, Matt Porwoll and Hugo Perez co-produced; the latter also co-directed.
“Once Upon...
- 8/24/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Can a drag queen represent 160,000 New Yorkers on the City Council? New York political activist and drag queen Marti Gould Cummings is about to find out. The 33-year-old is running to represent Upper Manhattan’s District 7, which includes parts of the Upper West Side, West Harlem and Washington Heights. Their journey will be chronicled for a new untitled documentary directed by Emma Fidel and producers Dan Ming, Robert Profusek and Gigi Dement.
Continue reading Exclusive: Marti Gould Cummings Documentary Begins Production at The Playlist.
Continue reading Exclusive: Marti Gould Cummings Documentary Begins Production at The Playlist.
- 12/16/2020
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
Line-up includes projects from Geetu Mohandas, Mostofa S. Farooki and Haobam Paban Kumar, along with the event’s first ever animation projects.
India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc) has unveiled the 18 projects selected for the Co-production Market at this year’s Film Bazaar, including new works from Geetu Mohandas, Mostofa S. Farooki [pictured] and Haobam Paban Kumar.
Mohandas, whose first feature Liar’s Dice screened at Sundance and won six international awards, is bringing her new project Insha’allah to Film Bazaar, with Jar Pictures attached as producer. Farooki, whose credits as director include Television and Ant Story, is producing fellow Bangladeshi director Abu Shahed Emon’s A Foolish Man.
Manipuri filmmaker Haobam Paban Kumar, whose debut Lady Of The Lake premieres in New Currents at Busan this week, is again working with Oli Pictures on Joseph’s Son.
The Film Bazaar line-up also includes the event’s first two animation projects –Soumitra Ranade’s Kabuliwala, to be...
India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc) has unveiled the 18 projects selected for the Co-production Market at this year’s Film Bazaar, including new works from Geetu Mohandas, Mostofa S. Farooki [pictured] and Haobam Paban Kumar.
Mohandas, whose first feature Liar’s Dice screened at Sundance and won six international awards, is bringing her new project Insha’allah to Film Bazaar, with Jar Pictures attached as producer. Farooki, whose credits as director include Television and Ant Story, is producing fellow Bangladeshi director Abu Shahed Emon’s A Foolish Man.
Manipuri filmmaker Haobam Paban Kumar, whose debut Lady Of The Lake premieres in New Currents at Busan this week, is again working with Oli Pictures on Joseph’s Son.
The Film Bazaar line-up also includes the event’s first two animation projects –Soumitra Ranade’s Kabuliwala, to be...
- 10/4/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
On the heels of the 39th edition of the Toronto Int. Film Festival (Sept 4-14), Ifp’s Independent Film Week is where a plethora of fiction, non-fiction and new this year, web-based series from the likes of Desiree Akhavan and Calvin Reeder find future coin. Sectioned off as projects at the very beginning of financing to those that are nearing completion, there happens to be tons of Sundance alumni in the names below. Among those that caught our attention we have Medicine for Melancholy‘s Barry Jenkins’ sophomore feature, produced by Bad Milo!‘s Adele Romanski, Moonlight is about “two Miami boys navigate the temptations of the drug trade and their burgeoning sexuality in this triptych drama about black queer youth”. Concussion‘s Stacie Passon digs into the thriller genre with Strange Things Started Happening. Produced by vet Mary Jane Skalski (Mysterious Skin), this is about “a woman who has...
- 7/24/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Nominated for an Academy Award, live-action short “God of Love” stars writer-director Luke Matheny as a lounge-singing darts champion who pines for the drummer in his band, while she has eyes for his best friend. The answer to his prayers quite literally arrives in a mysterious package of love darts. Here, producer Ryan Silbert writes about the keys to the student film’s success: a stellar script, yes, but also an ethos of working with friends.
By Ryan Silbert (producer of “God of Love”)
(February 2011)
Ryan Silbert
There is nothing quite like making films with people you consider your close friends.
As an independent filmmaker, you find that often the best work (as well as best working conditions) comes when you are around your close friends and collaborators. People whom you trust and who in turn can be honest and up-front with you.
I founded Toy Closet Films with my undergraduate college roommate,...
By Ryan Silbert (producer of “God of Love”)
(February 2011)
Ryan Silbert
There is nothing quite like making films with people you consider your close friends.
As an independent filmmaker, you find that often the best work (as well as best working conditions) comes when you are around your close friends and collaborators. People whom you trust and who in turn can be honest and up-front with you.
I founded Toy Closet Films with my undergraduate college roommate,...
- 2/23/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Nominated for an Academy Award, live-action short “God of Love” stars writer-director Luke Matheny as a lounge-singing darts champion who pines for the drummer in his band, while she has eyes for his best friend. The answer to his prayers quite literally arrives in a mysterious package of love darts. Here, producer Ryan Silbert writes about the keys to the student film’s success: a stellar script, yes, but also an ethos of working with friends.
By Ryan Silbert (producer of “God of Love”)
(February 2011)
Ryan Silbert
There is nothing quite like making films with people you consider your close friends.
As an independent filmmaker, you find that often the best work (as well as best working conditions) comes when you are around your close friends and collaborators. People whom you trust and who in turn can be honest and up-front with you.
I founded Toy Closet Films with my undergraduate college roommate,...
By Ryan Silbert (producer of “God of Love”)
(February 2011)
Ryan Silbert
There is nothing quite like making films with people you consider your close friends.
As an independent filmmaker, you find that often the best work (as well as best working conditions) comes when you are around your close friends and collaborators. People whom you trust and who in turn can be honest and up-front with you.
I founded Toy Closet Films with my undergraduate college roommate,...
- 2/23/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Happy Valentine.s Day! Ryan Silbert, producer of the Academy Award®-nominated short film God Of Love, offers writer, director and star Luke Matheny.s picks for romantic V-Day movies.
God Of Love
2011 Academy Award® Nominee for Best Live Action Short Film
In the mood for dinner and a movie tonight with a significant other? On your own? It doesn.t matter: Luke Matheney offers his top eight for a date in a homage to the holiday.eight of the best Valentine.s Day films, in his opinion. So here they are!
Joe vs. The Volcano Paris Blues Miracle of Morgan.s Creek The Bodyguard The Thomas Crown Affair Doc Hollywood Shop Around the Corner Arthur
Want to know more? Ask Him!
God Of Love is produced by Gigi Dement, Stefanie Walmsley and Ryan Silbert. It stars Matheny, Marian Brock andChristopher Hirsh. Director of Photography was Bobby Websterand original music is by Sasha Gordon.
God Of Love
2011 Academy Award® Nominee for Best Live Action Short Film
In the mood for dinner and a movie tonight with a significant other? On your own? It doesn.t matter: Luke Matheney offers his top eight for a date in a homage to the holiday.eight of the best Valentine.s Day films, in his opinion. So here they are!
Joe vs. The Volcano Paris Blues Miracle of Morgan.s Creek The Bodyguard The Thomas Crown Affair Doc Hollywood Shop Around the Corner Arthur
Want to know more? Ask Him!
God Of Love is produced by Gigi Dement, Stefanie Walmsley and Ryan Silbert. It stars Matheny, Marian Brock andChristopher Hirsh. Director of Photography was Bobby Websterand original music is by Sasha Gordon.
- 2/14/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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