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Uganda became an independent sovereign state on 9 October 1962. As a Commonwealth realm , [ 1 ] the British monarch , Elizabeth II , remained head of state as Queen of Uganda until the link with the British monarchy was severed on 9 October 1963 and the Kabaka (King) of Buganda , Sir Edward Mutesa II , became the first President of Uganda .
Uganda submitted a film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film [nb 1] for the first time in 2022. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. [3]
The Uganda Communications Commission organizes the Uganda Film Festival to promote the film industry. [14] In 2013, the film State Research Bureau swept four awards. [15] In 2014, The Felistas Fable won four awards, including Best Director for Dilman Dila. The Pearl International Film Festival is held annually in Kampala.
Queen of Katwe is a 2016 American biographical sports drama film [4] directed by Mira Nair and written by William Wheeler. [5] Starring David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o, and Madina Nalwanga, the film depicts the life of Phiona Mutesi, a girl living in Katwe, a slum of Kampala, the capital of Uganda.
The film was initially to be released locally in Ugandan theaters on 20 April 2020, but the COVID-19 Pandemic forced theaters to close down. A disappointed Loukman Ali did lose his positivity in filmmaking. [14] Later on he made a YouTube short film The blind Date followed by its prequel Sixteen Rounds.
Best Actress in a Feature Film, 2022 Nana Kagga (also known as Nana Kagga-Hill or Nana Hill or Nana Macpherson ) is a Ugandan filmmaker, scriptwriter and actress. [ 1 ] She wrote and directed the 2012 film The Life and was a writer and executive producer of Beneath the Lies – The Series .
"Oh Uganda, Land of Beauty" is the national anthem of Uganda. George Wilberforce Kakoma composed the music and authored the lyrics. It was adopted as the national anthem in 1962, when the country gained independence from the United Kingdom. It is musically one of the shortest national anthems in the world.
[3] [4] Ndagire also started a new training workshop for filmmakers at her center, the Mariam Ndagire Film and Performing Arts Centre MNFPAC, which holds film workshops for filmmakers every year. Among the workshops' notable participants are Sarah Kisauzi Sentongo, an actress with Deception , the NTV Uganda TV series, and screenwriter Usama ...