Special Slamdance Coverage: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine

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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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