Inspired by Vittorio De Sica's 1948 drama "The Bicycle Thief," director Donald Mugisha's "The Boda Boda Thieves" gives a vivid look into the life of a Ugandan teen on a mission to save his family's livelihood. Produced through the Pan-African filmmaking collective Yes! That's Us Films, the feature recently screened at the Seattle International Film Festival. On paper, the stories for this film and De Sica's are similar – the fate of a poor family hinges on the father's bicycle business, and when his bike is stolen it throws their world into chaos. Here, the patriarch Goodman runs a boda boda (motorbike taxi) business while his wife breaks rocks for a...
- 6/9/2015
- by Jai Tiggett
- ShadowAndAct
Here's a brand new trailer for Ugandan filmmaker Donald Mugisha's feature film, "The Boda Boda Thieves," which made its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year - a project whose progress we've been tracking on this blog for about 3 years now, from its lengthy financing journey, through today. Among its monetary awards, the project won the 10,000 Euro Vff Highlight Pitch Award at the the 10th edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus; it was one of just 5 projects selected by the World Cinema Fund to receive production funding from its allotted $283,000 grant (it received the largest chunk of the fund - $81,000, as South...
- 5/8/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Congrats to Ugandan Donald Mugisha whose feature film project, "The Boda Boda Thieves," will make its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival next month - a project we've been following for about 3 years now, as it progressed, from its financing journey, through today. Amongst its monetary awards, the project won the 10,000 Euro Vff Highlight Pitch Award at the the 10th edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus; it was one of just 5 projects selected by the World Cinema Fund to receive production funding from its allotted $283,000 grant (it received the largest chunk of the fund - $81,000, as South Africa based Switch Films signed on...
- 1/26/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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