Timothy Niwamanya
@sir_tesh
Filmmaker/Video Essayist. Art Writer/Film Critic. Disaffected malcontent. Creator @AfroObscura.
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Have you seen, #ManOfAfrica, a feature-length drama film shot in Uganda in the early 1950s with a Ugandan cast? To learn more about this forgotten classic, watch #AHistoryOfFilmInUganda on Afro Obscura's YouTube channel here: youtu.be/ZkGlLRaclEM?si… Subscribe to the channel!
Thanks for the nomination iKon Awards: Film And Television #AHistoryOfFilmInUganda
I sat down with South African filmmaker Damian Sean Samuels for an interview for People's Stories Project on his career, filmmaking ethos and the making of his film, #FinalNotice, that deals with the complex topic of euthanasia. Have a read: psp-culture.com/film/final-not…
Super grateful to the organisers of the iKon Awards: Film And Television for awarding my documentary, #AHistoryOfFilmInUganda, over the weekend. Also special thanks to Dr Anna Adima and the team at Goethe-Zentrum Kampala/UGCS for co-producing this project. We did a thing! #IkonAwards2025
My peeps Shasha & Joel Tugaineyo of Cinema Red Pill podcast went on Brenda Ibarah's #ReelAfricana podcast and had a great conversation on the state and future of film in Uganda, content creation and much more. Check it out! youtu.be/0P7BSF29kwI?si…
I read Prof. Mamdani's (Mahmood Mamdani) most recent book #SlowPoison from front to back in all but two days. Such a gripping read! Also, a history lesson on East African politics I did not know I needed. I highly recommend!
Congrats to Patience Nitumwesiga & her team for the acclaim & awards her film received on premiering at DOK Leipzig. If you're interested in the thought-process behind it, read this interview I did with her while she was putting it together in the editing room: psp-culture.com/documentary/th…
My first festival catalogue! Thank you to the people of Timimoun and the Algerian Ministry of Culture and Arts وزارة الثقافة و الفنون for hosting and screening us.
It was an honour to pitch at this year's @greatproducers lab in Addis Ababa where my documentary series project won the Sheffield DocFest Network Lab Pitch Award that comes with development & travel support & an industry pass to the festival in June next year. Onwards and upwards.
#TheStrangeTree is an eco-dystopian comic, born in RevealComicsConversationsEA and LDComics. The first 10 pages are being exhibited at the Sheroes: Comic Art From Africa exhibition in Frankfurt at the Weltkulturen Museum until August 26 2026. You can also access it on my website. Link in bio.
Great Lakes Creative Producers Lab (Great Lakes Creative Producers Lab) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia / 17.11.2025 - 21.11.2025.