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Film School Uganda

09.09.09

Indian director Mira Nair, famed for such films as Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair, and Mississippi Masala, has helped start a program for aspiring filmmakers in Uganda, a part of the world long deficient in cinematic instruction. 

The program, called MAISHA, the Kiswahili word for life, comes on the heels of The Last King of Scotland, which employed hundreds of locals as extras and seems to have kick-started national interest in film production.

Mira Nair, her team and her students discuss MAISHA, and screen a few samples of their work.
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