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Uganda's home-grown film industry is a hit on YouTube, but does it glorify violence? Ed Butler heads to Wakaliga to investigate, only to get shot with fake bullets.
Uganda's home-grown film industry is proving a hit on YouTube, but does it glorify violence? Ed Butler heads to Wakaliga on the outskirts of Kampala to investigate, only to get shot with fake bullets.
Programme features interviews with the American immigrant studio boss Alan Hofmanis, director and screenwriter Isaac Nabwana, special effects supremo Dauda Bisaso, and British fan Timon Singh of the Bristol Bad Film Club.
Expect the Unexpectable!
(Picture: Dauda Bisaso mans his home-made prop gatling gun; Credit: BBC)
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Fri 21 Sep 201807:32GMT
BBC World Service except News Internet
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