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I Suffer to Entertain You
Recently, I got a job directing the NTV Series, "The Hostel." So far, it is the most demanding job I’ve ever met, so unlike anything I’ve ever done. Honestly, for a moment or two, I keep wondering just...
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Working like a slave :(
Feeling too tired to write anything. Blame it all on this current job. Why do we have to work at all? Why can't we just lie on the beach and wait for manna to fall from heaven to feed us? Why can't we...
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Open Fly at the Airport
Last week, I got an email from the most important documentary film festival, www.idfa.nl. They accepted my first feature length piece of work, Untouchable Love, in their Docs for Sale section. How I...
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What Will I Do Before I Die?
A bucket list? That list of things I must do before I die? I do not remember at any point in my life making such a list, but sometime during my teenage years, an insane desire to write novels gripped...
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Starving Artists and Rejection Slips at Christmas
It's the worst part of being an 'artist'. For this reason they came up with the term, starving artist, to make the whole thing seem romantic. To make the artist think he has a right to starve, since he...
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This is not funny! It's a horror!
It seems a life time ago, yet it was only 2006. I was nearing my thirtieth birthday, and I had failed to make it as a novelist. I had to rethink my future, my ambitions, either give up on the dream or...
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After one week of shooting The Felistas Fable
I already wrote about it earlier, in the post "I suffer to entertain you." But after one week of trying to make the film, The Felistas Fable, I just can't help but to write about it again. The pains of...
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No sex in this honeymoon
I woke up this morning thinking about Ha Long Bay, for no particular reason. I’ve never been there, only seen it in photos, but it is what I dream about whenever I'm having fantasies of my honeymoon....
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The aphrodisiac restaurant
It is hard to forget a date in an aphrodisiac restaurant.Mochitos. Photo courtesy of www.or2k.orgI remember the day. 29th May 2011. A beautiful evening in Kathmandu. The threat of a strike lingered in...
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Piracy, markets and love
Something bad happened to me today. Something that made me think about pirates. Not those in the Indian Ocean, and certainly not the kind Johnny Depp has made popular -- though they are my favorites!...
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Creatures from the Other World
It's a sunny Sunday. I've just had a very productive weekend. Started and finished a short film. It's a story that has been running in my head for nearly two years now. Maybe more. I'm glad I got it...
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Memories of Rain
“I love the sound of rain.” So goes the first line in the lyrics of a song Reiza is writing. “I forgot the sound of rain,” is my response to it. There’s something about rain and romance. Rain and...
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Of dreams and nightmares
This blog post is an example of why some people should not be allowed to write blogs without supervision..... Photo pirated from facebook, don't know who to creditSo I'm sitting here, looking at this...
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Speechless
I have no words. I once read this story in the New Vision, and I heard a call to make a social action documentary, about how the government of Uganda ignores certain diseases, and focuses on diseases...
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How to enjoy a five day holiday in Mombasa with only $200
This is a different post from my usual ones. I'm giving tips to Ugandans, on how you can enjoy a five day holiday in Mombasa for only five hundred thousand shillings.This weekend, I returned from...
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One thing I hate about travelling
Anyone who travels a lot will come across a certain kind of people, who are both a curse and a blessing. They call themselves guides and fixers, and they claim to exist to help tourists and visitors...
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Questions European Children Ask About Africa
I met a Belgian in Nairobi early in the year, at a filmmaker’s workshop. When he went back to his country, he found a teaching job because, well, filmmaking isn’t as lucrative as our dreams would wish...
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Of gambling and taboos
It’s that time of the year, when you get a little down because you have no money to spend on a proper holiday. So a few weeks back, I tried my luck in online bingo and I won myself a few dollars to buy...
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Who Will Tell this Tale?
The search for love, motivated me to tell Ranjana's story.She is in the photo below, with greenish sari.A few years back, I used to have a certain kind of anger against foreigners who came to Uganda...
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Snorkel in Mombasa with Captain Wagna
Captain Wagna, the snorkeling king of MombasaSome people trot around the world just to see animals, or to ogle at old buildings, or to take photos of a ‘wow factor’ that has been photographed a billion...
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