During the Ngalabi Film Festival, Achiro was hosted to discuss her film ‘The Surrogate’. Here is an extract of dialogue: 1. Do you think that the community pays a role in marginalising people? A: in a way yes because people are so bent on culture they do not realise that the times have changed and […]
2017 was a busy year for Achiro. She made a short film -Maraya Ni meaning ‘Reflections’ after winning funding from Maisha film lab in Kampala. The film will be released starting March 2018. In August her short film ‘The Surrogate’ won the award for best film Africa after at the slum film festival in Kenya. […]
#MyWarSong #OnTime Achen is seated by a small swamp. This is no ordinary swamp; it has come about over a period of two weeks of none stop rain which has flooded the land below the village where Achen lives. There are lots of flies around her because this swamp also has all the feaces and […]
#MyWarSong As Owilo faced the wall, Patrick the rehabilitation counselor could see that his mind was not with him in the room. Owilo was recapping the events in the bush before he had been rescued by the government soldiers. Now 17 years old, Owilo had been abducted when he was 12 years old while he […]
#JustMeYouandTHESILENCEplay #ApprenticeProduction2017 #SVU #SilentVoicesUganda. Achiro is currently working on a new play by Silent Voices Uganda as a Director Apprentice. This play, written and directed by Adong Judith Lucy is a family story based upon the passing of the anti-gay bill in 2009. The show will have screenings on from 28th July to 6th August […]
#MPD #MyPrisonDiary Alan writes in his diary… It is 4am in the morning and the prison guards on duty use their batons to wake the inmates. They hit the metal cage-like doors, and there is deafening noise. We see Alan Wahome waking up and pulling his blanket over his head before he gets out of […]