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Originally Posted by fortportal

Haha "kachabali" I know it.

Pass on the great Knowledge

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Originally Posted by screenshotartist

Pass on the great Knowledge

I am ugandan and have no idea what KACHABALI is.

someone please do tell.

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Originally Posted by wilson325i

I am ugandan and have no idea what KACHABALI is.

someone please do tell.

I thought someone explained it earlier...maybe you should ask a Ssenga.

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Long Version: A Ramon Film Productions - KLA

The Reviews are In:

Who needs Avatar, This is the best movie EVER AWESOME REALISTIC EFFECTS AWESOME FIGHT SCENES!!!!!!!. Anonimo16378 - Youtube

CONGRATULATIONS Uganda for the new forum.

New UGANDA Projects & Constructions: http://www.assoc-arcs.com/projects.htm

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There is a thread for this Click Me

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lol its more like 10, 000. veiws on youtube

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WALALALALALALA UGANDA SECTION!!

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Originally Posted by Shaka-M-14

what to say....

Ugandan movie business shouldn't feed off of asian martial arts but make a name for itself otherwise they just look like a bunch of pitiful wannabees
African martial arts:

1. Dambe
   
2. laamb
   
3. Nguni stick fighting
   
4. Nuba fighting
   
5. Obnu Bilate
   
6. Tahtib
   
7. Kiungo Cha Mkono
   
8. Kamau Njia
   
9. Bassula
   
10. Kamangula
    
11. N'gola
    
12. Gwindulumutu
    
13. Kuta
    
14. Nubian Wrestling
    
15. Testa
    
16. Dula Meketa
    
17. Re-Efi-Areh-Ehsee
    
18. Donga Stick Fighting
    
19. Borey
    
20. Gambian Wresting
    
21. Kayti
    
22. Dambe
    
23. Béri
    
24. Mkazo Ncha Shikana
    
25. Olva
    
26. Isinaphakade Samathongo

there's a lot more. all they have to do is to make it unbelievably ridiculous like in the Asian martial art movies

you forgot about kapera(sp)

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Local TV gets a boost from ‘The hostel’
Thursday, 24th February, 2011
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Above: Part of the cast.
By Nigel Nassar
AWAY from your Spanish telenovelas, here is something Ugandan guaranteed to get you running back home early to catch it on television – The Hostel.
A serialised comedy drama, The Hostel is home-baked.

And part of its cast are some of the funniest faces on our comedy scene – Daniel Omara, Richard Tuwangye and Isaac Kudzu among others.

It premiered this week on NTV, and will be showing an episode daily from Wednesday till Saturday at 7:30pm.
Chronicling the life of university students residing in hostels, each episode of this dramedy is only 30 minutes.

But don’t be surprised if these 30 minutes make The Hostel the single most watched show on television over the two seasons it will show.

With each season having 90 episodes, its director, the renowned playwright-cum-actor, Kwezi Kaganda, says they, at their hostel, are working around the clock to provide enough content to keep Ugandans entertained, while concurrently filming subsequent episodes.

Filmed in a hostel-like house in Luzira, The Hostel, with its typical ‘campuser’ lingo, revolves around six university students – three guys and three babes, each from a different background which influences the characters they play.

All resident at New Edge Hostel, we see these full-of-life youths in their early 20s get up to this and that, harmonised by another character called Sobba (pronounced sober).

Sober (played by Kudzu) is the disciplinarian caretaker of this hostel, who was once an addicted drunk.
This Munyankore college dropout with a heavy accent from home is never out of these students’ hair.

He is determined to prove to the world that he runs the show here, and has ridiculous rules that govern the hostel. One of his goals is to restrain the students’ sexual relations.

But of course he has his weaknesses. From what I have seen so far, Sober is definitely going to be my favourite character.

Then we have comedian Omara who plays the all-funny Odoch from Gulu. His background is not affluent, but he wants in on the coolest things. In fact, Odoch has the nerve to chase after the cutest and most privileged girl at the hostel – Patra (played by HB Toxic’s Hellen Lukoma), the girl every girl wants to be.

It also features Matthew Nabwiso who plays ladies’ man Gilbert; former Miss Uganda contestant Diana Kahunde as the residents’ mother figure and comedian Richard Tuwangye as the meticulous politically ambitious Barney, also Odoch’s roommate.

With local programming being one of the main factors that have catapulted a number of television stations into the spotlight, this show, a brainchild of a new production house called Fast Track Productions, is guaranteed to pull andiences because of it’s locally relevant content.

Its professional execution plus the subtle way it tackles issues like HIV, social inequalities, cross-generational sex and ethnic and religious diversity, will give you a relief that our film industry is headed for greater heights.

the trailer

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The Hostel: pioneers new television era
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By STEVEN TENDO (email the author)
Posted Saturday, February 26 2011 at 00:00
Local television is undergoing a revolution, if the efforts of stations in Uganda are to go by. The newest show designed to pique the interest of the audience enough to force them to yearn for more is The Hostel on NTV.

The show joins the lengthening line of those increasingly being designed for the local viewer to counter the exposure from programmes from other markets. Television execs in East Africa have been running around for a couple of years now searching for that elusive quality that will make the viewers stay glued to their stations.

Is it western series with a cool rock sound track, a hard menu of news from the streets or an increasingly citizen-managed platform? Whatever it is, managers have not been sitting around waiting for the answer to come to them in a revelation.

Produced by Fast Track Productions Limited, a multi-media outfit operating out of Mutungo on the outskirts of Kampala, The Hostel has been presented as a revolution in African, not just East African, television.

The Hostel claims the spot as the first daily show with a two-season plan and a conclusion already worked out even before it launches. The show, termed a dramedy, comes to Ugandan TV laden with a heavy responsibility – it must succeed if this kind of TV is to flourish soon.

The series follows the experiences of a group of young students at an unnamed university. The viewer is brought into the lives of these hot-blooded students hungry for life and ready to grab their opportunities at whatever cost.

Though these are the stories of university-age students, the viewer will quickly realise the characters are universal and their pains, joys, fears and aspirations are the same whatever the circumstances of the person. Fear of poverty is not a reserve of campusers, after all.

A fiercely Ugandan feel permeates the acting with every opportunity to emphasise the local flavour taken. It is in the adlibbing in different Ugandan languages, the back stories of the major characters that speak into the lives of most of those watching and the promise of even deeper self-revelation that may put The Hostel on the radars of many viewers.

The fact that the show will be on TV from Wednesday to Saturday should not be ignored. Whatever the views of the watching public, one must recognise the work The Hostel has cut out for itself. No other show in the recent history of Ugandan TV has tried to play the whole week.

“As we introduced the concept to the first people, there was always the incredulity behind the question, ‘How are you going to pull it off?’” Solea Munyana creative director of Fast Track recalls. Proposing a daily show seemed an order tall enough without adding that The Hostel is a 90-episode-per-season show capable of running even more than the four days allocated it.

It is perhaps understandable, this scepticism. Other shows in the past have failed the staying power test the world over because of one reason or another, usually financial or because of a derailed script.
But the producers of the show say they did their research before they decided to climb Mount Improbable. The script was written by the tried and tested Kwezi Kaganda and as much professionalism as the company could manage was not spared.

The set is a multi roomed house in Mutungo with just enough space for the purposes of the creators. The hostel is a co-ed affair and the different rooms in the house help portray what a hostel in today’s Uganda probably feels like, complete with a nosy care-taker who thinks too much of his importance. Kaganda also helms the ship and this should probably be an advantage given his experience on other TV productions.

The menu of subjects that the show tackles includes city life, roommates, friendships, prostitution, romance, hatred, academics and quite about anything one would expect to go through in a Ugandan hostel.

“The Hostel is a uniquely Ugandan phenomenon,” a Fast Track executive points out. “In our days, when we went to university, there was no such thing as hostels. We slept in university halls. Even in other East African countries, hostels are still a novelty.”

The actors chosen to front these characters (Hellen Lukoma, Richard Tuwangye, Daniel Omara, Mathew Nabwiso etc) probably appreciate the responsibility they have been given. The concept of a daily show, that the audience will come back every day for, will need to be aired almost perfectly for the concept to be picked up by other producers and TV stations in the industry but also by advertisers.
And Fast Track believes television is the media of the future. Pioneers always have the task of spreading the gospel and this time, advertisers will be pursued relentlessly.

“We already have some big supporters who have made it possible to bring the show to this level,” Martin Kintu who manages operations at the company lets on. “We have Mountain Dew and MTN. As time goes on, we shall need to get more.” Already, NTV has 20 episodes to start.

The result of the lobbying done by the show’s producers will probably be to persuade financial backers of this and other TV shows to insist that their monies go towards local production. Funding a project like The Hostel is not cheap, as was revealed about the budget of the show (approximately Shs900m per season).

Should The Hostel appeal to the local audience and replace the Nigerian and Venezuelan soaps, the door to truly local production would have been kicked wide open.

The model has worked elsewhere and probably gave the company the conviction that their fortunes would be made by only local programming. Citizen TV in neighbouring Kenya started out in 2005 as the obscure number four station, not known by many. Then the station started showing the biggest number of local productions while the likes of NTV and KTN, the national broadcaster, were showing the cheaper western soaps.

As of 2008, Citizen was the number one station. It is hoped that productions like The Hostel will help maintain ratings for stations like NTV that air them.

The revolution in TV will be assessed after the public has had its say on the matter. Ugandans will decide, after getting used to the concept of a four-day show on TV, if they think the concept can fly or not. The strength of the show is probably in its local flavour.

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Bukedde Tv is top in central region
Monday, 28th February, 2011
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By Paul Busharizi

In just over a year of operation Bukedde TV is now the most watched TV station in the central/Buganda market.

According to a study conducted by Synovate, a research firm, the more than one million people polled in central Uganda 66.4% reported to having watched Bukedde TV in the preceding week compared to NTV’s 64.8% and 61.7% for WBS TV.

The all-Luganda station went on-air in October 2009 with its community TV format.

Similarly, in western Uganda, Vision Group’s TV West has dominated viewer-ship after less than a year of operation. According to the same survey 58.5% of viewers polled had tuned into the station in the week prior to the poll.

“It’s a unique format with a unique audience,” said Rose Aliguma, the corporate advertising manager.
“Prior to this all TV broadcasts were in English but Bukedde TV reached out to people who were comfortable with Luganda.”

She added that the Bukedde TV audience stays with them all day.
The idea of prime time viewing has been erased, she said; “You can view television 24 hours, previously TV was designed for evening viewing. Advertisers lose out if they are not on Bukedde TV especially for the producers and distributors of fast moving consumer goods.”

The wildly popular news program “Agataliiko nfuufu” and the dubbing over of popular films and series with Luganda commentary has been received well by the public.

“The news is not your regular news but community news, about what is happening to our viewers, what is happening around them, the news is more popular than anything else we offer,” Bukedde TV manger Mark Walungama said.

Technically the station is supposed to transmit over a 90 km radius but is received well beyond Masaka town in the south and the Jinja in the east.
Plans are under way for the station to transmit further into the Luganda heartland.

“Within a few weeks we are going to start relaying our signal from Masaka and reach further south and west to cover our key market better,” Walungama said.

TV West follows the same formula but is in Runyankore.

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Food makes Ugandans happy – Survey
Tuesday, 1st March, 2011
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By FRANCIS KAGOLO

UGANDAN youth derive the most pleasure from eating and listening to music unlike other East African countries, a study conducted by the Coca-Cola Company has revealed.

Dubbed the Coca-Cola Happiness Barometer, the study was undertaken last month in 19 countries, including Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania to uncover avenues through which people gained happiness.

While 91% of Kenyans thought that their source of happiness is their family, 88% Ugandans said their biggest source of happiness is food.

This was explained by the fact that Uganda is very rich in terms of food, compared to Kenya and Tanzania.

However, Ugandans are closely followed by 85% of Kenyans who said they are happiest while eating.

Teenagers who derive pleasure from working and making money are few. Those aged between 13 and 19 derive most pleasure from food, family, friends, music and religion.

For Tanzanians, the greatest source of happiness is hugs. Tanzanians were found to hug more than Kenyans and Ugandans although this could have much to do with their culture.

For Kenyan teenagers, the happiest moment is found online on Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites where they get opportunities to make new friends and chat with their friends.

A total of 15% of Kenyan youth said their happiest moment of the day is when they are online compared to 10% and 5% of the youth in Uganda and Tanzania.

Ugandans also seemed to love their music as well as food. The study showed that Ugandans are also the most addicted to music; 41% of them confessed to deriving sheer happiness from listening to songs followed closely by 38% of Kenyans with Tanzanians trailing at 21%.
When it came to dancing, Tanzanians and Ugandans were found to love dancing more than Kenyans.

Tanzania leads with 25% of its teens saying they dance more to cheer themselves up followed by Uganda and Kenya with 17% and 5% respectively.

The study also revealed that the time spent in traffic jams listening to music on the way to school or work were indeed “happy hours” particularly among urban residents.

Catching up in the evening, drinking and chatting during the day are other avenues for happiness people pointed out.

Ninety-five percent of Kenyans overwhelmingly voted their partners as the biggest source of happiness.

Overall, in all the countries where the survey was carried out, people (77%) agreed that family and life partners are the greatest source of joy.

Happiness is defined as a state of mind or feeling characterised by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy.

Of the 19 countries polled, Kenyans were found to be fairly happier than neighbours. Tanzania and Uganda recorded 69% and 63% respectively compared to Kenya’s 78.6%.

The top three happier countries were Mexico, Philippines and Argentina. Kenya was seventh, while Tanzania was 18th.

Uganda proved to have the least happy people after it was ranked 19th in East Africa.
However, it is not clear how many correspondents were interviewed per country since the number was not indicated.

Reacting to the study on Monday, Dr. Paul Nyende, a Makerere University based community psychologist, attributed the youth’s addiction to food to the ever-growing food industry.

“There are new ways of cooking and spicing food as well as advertising, which attract the young to eating,” Nyende said.

He warned that eating is pleasurable, but only if one is eating good food. He advised the youth not to eat any kind of food to curb diseases like diabetes.

Nyende said it was crucial for human beings to keep happy for their psychological wellbeing, have healthier lives and to enjoy interpersonal relationships with others.

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