Author : Martin Kabagambe @cinemaUg
5, Months ago
Kizito Samuel Savior's KEMI- The final tragedy scooped two
nominations at the Lake International Pan African Film Festival 2020 in Kenya.
The nominations include Best Feature Film and Best Actress
for Aisha Kyomugangi.
The nominations are the first of their kind for the movie as
the Festival and Award season starts.
The movie stars Aisha Kyomuhangi, Symon Base Kalema, Mutebi
Farooq, Modesta May among others, and produced by the multi-talented Aisha
Kyomuhangi.
The movie talks about a woman that lost her husband at 6
months of her pregnancy and therefore forced out of the family house by the
husband's relatives, resorting to staying at her mother's house in the village
who also passes away a few days before her delivery.
Kemi (Kemigisha) is later forced to face the world hustle to
survive with her baby which makes her realize she could lose the baby in the struggle of raising it, so she decides
to let it go but her motherly heart can't let her leave her baby in another
person's hands.
The movie premiered on Women's day Sunday 8th March 2020 at
Country Cinema Mbarara in Mbarara City and was set to continue its premieres to
the rest of the country but was affected by the global pandemic.
The movie will still soon come back to the Cinemas and I
would advise you to watch it once it comes.
The movie is directed by Kizito Samuel Savior, produced by
Aisha Komuhangi for FAISHA PICTURES INTERNATIONAL and Kizito Samuel Savior
still.
Executive produced by CORNELIUS ONYANGO.
Let's just have look at the rest of the crew.
Racheal Mambo is the
Director of Photography, Imran Musabbeh
is the Production Designer, Kizito Samuel the editor, casting by Aisha
Komuhangi and Kizito Samuel, Tumanyane Andrew as production manager and
assistant director.
The movie was written by Aisha Komuhangi, Kizito Samuel, and
the screenplay was co-written by Josephine Kabahuma.
Kizito Samuel is not new to nominations and honestly, these
are not the biggest nominations, we recall his movie The Forbidden had the most
international nominations a Ugandan film has ever had including The African
Academy nomination.
We continue to congratulate all the Cast and Crew of the
movie and continue to implore you to continue working hard for our Ugandan
movie industry.
We have high hopes that the movie KEMI- The final tragedy will have even more
nominations and even win Awards in this coming Festival and Award season.