People dream of being involved in the movie business. Some even make their own low budget films and then there's Isaac Nabwana an Ugandan filmmaker whose films, as he put have no budget. That hasn't stopped him from making films or attacking people from outside Uganda to track him down and become involved in the process. You may end up being eaten by cannibals in one of his films but no one kind denai that you've been on the big screen.
Isaac Nabwana, a self-taught film-maker, has killed off more than 20 white actors at his makeshift studio in Wakaliga in Kampala over the past six months. Western fans of the director’s Tarantino-style productions have come seeking a slice of the action – and ended up taking part.
“All of them die,” Mr Nabwana says. “It’s Wakaliga versus the rest of the world.”
Tucked away in a courtyard at the end of a dirt track, “Wakaliwood” is tricky to find. The entrance to the tiny studio is behind a clothes line, and the helicopter, a feature of so many Ramon Production films, lies idle under a tarpaulin.
It is here that Mr Nabwana, 43, has assembled a motley collection of actors, craftsmen and technicians to make films for anywhere between $2 and $200 a production. “I don’t even call it low-budget,” he laughs. “We have no budget.”
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