{"id":9917,"date":"2018-03-08T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=9917"},"modified":"2018-03-08T07:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T07:00:46","slug":"thinkpiecethursday-lessons-to-learn-from-wakaliwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/thinkpiecethursday-lessons-to-learn-from-wakaliwood\/","title":{"rendered":"#ThinkpieceThursday – Lessons From Wakaliwood #ETBSA"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>2009. Isaac Nabwana Godfrey Geoffrey (or Nabwana I.G.G.) was just a fan\u00a0of\u00a0Hollywood\u00a0action movies. He was living in\u00a0the slum of Wakaliga, near Uganda’s capital city\u00a0Kampala. He decided to make his own- Uganda’s first action movie! He sold everything he owned and made bricks so he could raise enough money to buy an old Sony camcorder.<\/p>\n Isaac rallied the people of Wakaliga together, with less than a $200 budget, to make\u00a0Who Killed Captain Alex?<\/em> an action movie that makes no sense whatsoever but is absolutely hilarious with surprisingly good action. One of the reasons is that he and his friends taught themselves Kung Fu\u00a0and now compete in local championships, so the action is authentic. He built himself an editing suite to include CGI in his films, and after making every movie, he has to delete the footage so he has enough space to make his next film.<\/p>\n After the film became a success, he developed “Wakaliwood”, a film studio within Wakaliga that has created such hits as\u00a0Bad Black<\/em>,\u00a0Cannibal Mama<\/em>, and\u00a0Ebola Hunter<\/em>. They play film festivals worldwide, and enough fans bankroll Wakaliwood that it is self-sustaining. Isaac dreamed big, made a movie whose ambition doesn’t necessarily match its budget, and it paid off. His long-term project is building an entire life-size replica helicopter for his next film! and he’s almost there!<\/p>\nDon’t Scale Back Your Ambition<\/h4>\n