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Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ To Return To Select Cinemas for MLK Weekend: “Perfect Opportunity” To Highlight Wine’s “Inspiring Fight For Freedom”
EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic Documentary Films is returning its Oscar-shortlisted documentary Bobi Wine: The People’s President to select cinemas over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. …
On Tuesday, Bwayo and Sharp earned DGA Awards nominations for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Directing for their film, which centers on Ugandan pop star Bobi Wine, who dared to run for president against his country’s dictator, Gen. Yoweri Museveni. “Born in the slums of Kampala, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, famously known as Bobi Wine, is a musician turned politician who is the current leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and the People Power Movement,” notes a release about the film. His songs are known as peaceful protests and edutainment (a mix between education and entertainment), focusing on the struggles of Uganda’s underprivileged and low-income earners and calling upon young people to join politics and change their country’s destiny.”
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