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Special Slamdance Coverage: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine
Season 3
Published 1 year, 1 month ago
Description
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine is an accomplished actor, director, and documentary filmmaker, and so it's no surprise that his film, MEMORIES OF LOVE RETURNED (2024), is a love letter to the arts. It's also a love letter about Uganda, and offers a deeply personal look at his experience in the country and that of photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo.
In this episode, we discuss:
- how he got started in filmmaking and if he has a preference between acting and directing;
- how his knowledge of directing affected his acting "for years";
- what he learned in his decades of documentary filmmaking;
- the role of LGBTQ films going forward;
- the challenge of making films in an occasional hostile social and political environment;
- why Slamdance?;
- when can people see MEMORIES OF LOVE RETURNED;
- what's next for him?
- does he ever feel typecast as an actor or as a director -- because of his name, he was getting "certain African roles"; he told his reps, it would be great to get something where he isn't speaking an African accent;
- being told he "wasn't African enough."
Ntare's Indie Film Highlight: WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS (2024) dir. by Misha Kapany Schwarz, Maarya Zafa.
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