The Monitor (Kampala)

Uganda: Bukenya Joins Film Industry

Kampala — Film making is no longer a part-time job for the new crop of film producers in Uganda. Today, about two films hit the market each month.

The fast catching up business on the entertainment scene has attracted young enterprising and ambitious people such as Faizal Bukenya who in the span of two years, has been part of five film projects.

Bukenya is now preparing to shoot his own, Ekikemo (The Temptation) come June, thanks to promoters who are ready to sponsor him realise his project.

His has been part of Too Late (2007) a Maryland production, Eky'ekango Mu Mukwano (2007), Ensisinkano Y'ebizibu (2007), The Victim and Nyamba Muyambe (2008).

Bukenya hasn't looked back and Ekikemo is indeed his temptation.

The film which rotates around child sacrifice and underground powers portrays a middle-aged rich woman Nanteza with an epileptic son.

A witchdoctor, in the film, asks Nanteza to sacrifice a young person to have her only son cured. But she fears to have bloodstained hands so she takes the only other option of getting intimate with a circumcised young man who must have a pregnant wife.

In so doing, the unborn baby becomes her sacrifice. However, the young man makes off with lots of her money, and property before the two get intimate.

In revenge, she plots murder, if necessary, for all Kimuli's family of which death toll would be the sacrifice. Bukenya said the film appeals to all explaining that viewers will find it fascinating.

Tagged: Arts, East Africa, Uganda

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