The story focuses on the titanic fight for freedom, in which the optimistic Bobi Wine is pitted against a dictatorship that is heavily imbedded in the country. Bobi Wine’s unfiltered criticism of a society in which over 20 special military units preserve the country's totalitarian regime, brings a fiery intensity to the situation. How far will he go to liberate his country? And what part does his music play in this story?
The film ‘from ghetto to parliament’ illustrates the life of a freedom fighter in a deteriorating totalitarian regime. It shows the overwhelming race for parliament candidacy, hot-headed tojikwatako campaign (hand off our constitution!), death threats and immoral abolishment of the presidential age requirements.
What We Need & What You Get
This documentary is being realised in Uganda as we speak. It is directed by Thimaud Lallemand de Driesen and produced by. This project relies heavily on local talent. To finance this, we need your help. The help that is being offered by locals, is often on a voluntary basis, since the locals see the value in their story being told. In addition to the interviews and video material that is being shot at the moment, we need archival footage of Uganda to tell the entire story as well as possible. We need to pay for the rights to use this archival footage and this our biggest expense. The rest of our budget will go towards other various expenses such as travelling costs of the crew.
Risks & Challenges
As you can imagine, shooting a documentary in a country under a dictator's reign is not easy, especially when you are shooting a film about that dictator's worst enemy. Shooting this documentary therefore can carry risks. We, the filmmakers and the local population who help us in our efforts take this risk, because we believe that this story needs to be told.
Through knowledge of the country and its population, we see the possibility of achieving our goal.
And that's all there is to it.
And with the help of many local heroes!