Usama Mukwaya
Ugandan screenwriter
Usama Mukwaya (born December 12, 1989) is a Ugandan screenwriter, film director, actor and television host.
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Quotes
edit- Sometimes building relationships is facilitated through food, enjoyable events and more.
- In: "[1]" at New Vision. 18 March 2024
- You can use whatever medium that you have chosen to run to change lives, impact a society and as well to create a legacy.
- In: "[2]" at leoafricainstitute.org. 20 July 2020
- We have a lot of things that define who we are from where we come from and as filmmakers we need to be true to our identity.
- In: "[3]" at Filmhackers.org. 10 June 2019
- Inspirations come differently, sometimes you are just sleeping and get a bad dream, others are stories in papers. So people have different stories, it’s about art. I make sure I keep my brains awake.
- In: "Ugandan film maker: I am living my dream" at New Vision. 24 January 2017 written by Glorias Musiime
- People here always want to grab a simple camera and a table light, get their cousin and shoot a movie. You can’t say that’s wrong, but it’s not cinema.
- In: "camera, action: Uganda’s film scene" at British Airways Highlife Magazine. 08 June 2015 written by Elizabeth Mcsheffrey
- Do it now if you can, when you can. Sometimes later goes for never.
- It's not about being cute or not, but the confidence of how you see yourself in the reflection.
- In: "Mukwaya wins film contest" at The Observer. 23 July 2013 written by Abu-Baker Mulumba
- Kinna-Uganda has something to do with mediocrity. We should follow the trends of other industries like Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood; let us call our films Ugawood.
- In: "Ugawood or Kinna-Uganda? Film stars split over name at The Observer. 12 March 2013 written by Polly Kamukama
- It affected me so much having to adapt to different parenting environments.
- In: "Mukwaya, the self made filmmaker" at The Observer. 12 April 2012 written by Polly Kamukama
