‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ Directors Say The Fight For Democracy In Uganda Is Ongoing – Contenders Film: The Nominees

“Bobi has inspired our generation and the nation at large,” Bobi Wine: The People’s President co-director Moses Bwayo said of the famed Uganda performer now politician seeking to preserve his country’s waning democracy.

“When he got into Parliament and said he wanted to dislodge the dictatorship … we trusted him,” Bwayo, who did double duty as director of photography on the Oscar-nominated documentary added at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event Saturday. “The revolution that he leads today, that’s what really got him all this support around the country, and of course his messenging and the music. It really communicates with the nation.”

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Back in cinemas in major markets across the U.S. this long Presidents Day weekend, National Geographic’s very timely Bobi Wine is up against The Eternal Memory, Four Daughters, To Kill a Tiger and 20 Days in Mariupol for Best Documentary at the 96th Academy Awards next month. The very up-close and political film from Bwayo and Christopher Sharp tracks the as-yet-unsuccessful campaign of activist and national superstar Wine to end the neatly 40-year regime of Yoweri Museveni in Uganda.

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Co-director Sharp also joined the Contenders panel Saturday.

“What this story is, is ongoing,” he said of Wine and his efforts in his nation. He is “constantly being harassed, the people around him are still being picked up, people disappear, and every now and again, Bobi’s put under house arrest.

“He never knows really what the regime’s going to do to him next, or those close to him or those dear to him.”

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Bobi Wine: The People’s President is streaming on Disney+. The Jimmy Kimmel-hosted Oscars are March 10 on ABC.

Check out the panel video above.

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