Wakaliwood
Sign in to saveWakaliwood, also known as Ramon Film Productions, is a film studio based in Wakaliga, a slum in Uganda's capital of Kampala. Its founder and director is Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana, a.k.a. Nabwana I.G.G., who has been called Uganda's Quentin Tarantino, after the gratuitous violence in his films. Wakaliwood is best known for its ultra-low budget (estimated to be in the region of $200) action movies, such as Who Killed Captain Alex?, Bad Black, Tebaatusasula, and the upcoming crowdsourced film Tebaatusasula: Ebola.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Wakaliwood
- Company.logo
- Wakaliwood_logo.png
- Company.founders
- Nabwana I.G.G.Alan Hofmanis
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.key_people
- Nabwana I.G.G.Alan Hofmanis
- Company.industry
- Entertainment
- Company.products
- Motion pictures
- Company.foundation
- 2005
- Company.location_city
- Kampala
- Company.location_country
- Uganda
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film studio
- Country
- Uganda
- Located in
- Kampala District
- Headquarters
- Kampala
- Legal form
- subsidiary company
- Country of origin
- Uganda
- Official website
- wakaliwood.com
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- product or material produced
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Wakaliwood, also known as Ramon Film Productions, is a film studio based in Wakaliga, a slum in Uganda's capital of Kampala. Its founder and director is Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana, a.k.a. Nabwana I.G.G., who has been called Uganda's Quentin Tarantino, after the gratuitous violence in his films. Wakaliwood is best known for its ultra-low budget (estimated to be in the region of $200) action movies, such as Who Killed Captain Alex?, Bad Black, Tebaatusasula, and the upcoming crowdsourced film Tebaatusasula: Ebola.
==History== Isaac Nabwana spent his childhood during the regime of Idi Amin in the 1970s. While the rest of Uganda was stricken with violence and ethnic cleansing, the farmland that Nabwana's grandfather owned was relatively peaceful. His inspirations for filmmaking came from reruns of Hawaii Five-O and ''Logan's Run'', as well as his love of Hollywood action movies and martial arts films from his childhood. As he had never been in a theatre, he relied mostly on his brothers and friends' descriptions of films that were just released theatrically. In 2005, after taking a computer course on video editing and watching video tutorials on filmmaking, Nabwana founded Ramon Film Productions, naming it after his grandmothers, Rachael and Monica.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wakaliwood” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.