All language subtitles for Once.Upon.a.Time.in.Uganda.2021.1080p.BluRay.x264-OFT

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music continues)

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music continues)

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- I feel like I'm from
the future.

That's how I honestly feel.

I feel like I'm from the future

and I know how important
the films and Isaac’s story

and the story behind it are.

It's not that I have
faith in it.

It's...

It's like an utter conviction.

It was a decision, though.

Should I stay in New York
and get a proper job

and a better apartment
and all that?

Or do I follow my heart?

So that's what I did.

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music continues)

And I knew that if I did not
go, I would always regret it.

It would just frickin' haunt me.

(soft dramatic music)

(bird of prey shrieking)

(epic orchestral music)

(VJ Emmie laughs
and begins narrating)

(epic orchestral
music continues)

(epic orchestral music)

(funky '70s music)

(funky '70s music continues)

(helicopter humming)
(gunfire)

(explosion)

(funky '70s music continues)

(helicopter humming)

(explosion)

- So this is maybe
December 2012,

and a friend of mine
showed me the trailer

for "Who Killed Captain Alex?"

And that was it.

I made the decision maybe 30
seconds into the 90 seconds

that I was going to Uganda.

(quirky curious music)

I didn't call, I didn't
email, I didn't write.

I just went there to
track him down.

What I wanted was to know
the director behind it.

So when I arrived,

I spent the first day or two
just getting my bearings

and what I like to do
is go to the markets.

There's 50 varieties of
rice going down here,

there's 40 colors of
spices going this way.

And the market
was just enormous.

And then in the
corner of my eye,

I saw the shirt.

And he had, you know,
some DVDs that he was selling.

(epic 60's chase music)

And I took off after the guy.

Whoa, whoa, hold on, hold on!

Uh...

No, no, no!

Hey, hey!

Wait!

No, no, no, no, no, no!

No, no!

(people shouting)

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

Are you with that movie company?

That one, you have the movies,
yeah?

- Yeah, yeah. Who are you?

- I'm Alan.
I come from New York.

I'm a fan.
I just came here to find him.

Can you bring me?
- Yes.

- To see him?
- It's okay, you can go.

- Okay. I just want to meet him.

(Alan Voiceover) And you know
what goes through your head,

is like I don't know where
he's really bringing me.

It wasn't like that.

But it goes through your head.

(clay squishing)

(clay squishing)

(actors kicking and punching)

- Cut, cut!
(actors grunting)

Cut. (speaks in Luganda).

(haunting soundscape)
(people chattering)

(men grunting)

(tires squealing)

(Bruce Lee grunts)

(Bruce Lee grunts)
(henchman grunts)

(explosion)

(explosion booming)

(atmosphere sounds at
the village Wakaliga)

Okay, action!

(actors grunting)

Cut! (laughs)

(Isaac laughing)

(crew mates chattering)
(funky '70s music)

So, now I am filmmaker
and he is a filmmaker too.

(funky '70s music)

- Okay?

Action.

Okay.

(actor making kung fu
fighting noises)

(head exploding)

(actor yells)

(actor grunts)

(actor grunting)

(funky '70s music continues)

(Harriet laughing)
(crew mates chattering)

- [Isaac] Action!

(actor grunts)

(everyone laughs)

(Isaac acts getting fake
killed by a gunshot)

(actor yelping)

(Isaac laughing)

(children chattering
indistinctly)

- We wanted the white man
in the movie

and we didn't know where
to get the white man.

And he just came in, in time!

(Videotape rewinding sound)

(curious quirky music)

(curious quirky music continues)

Yeah, this is our office.

(Harriet exclaims)

(Harriet laughs)

(Isaac chuckles)

(toy gun trigger clicks)

(Isaac chuckles)

(Isaac laughs)

- Wow, wow, wow, wow.

(fun driving music)

- [Actress] Put down the gun!

(gunshot fires)

- There go you, got it.

(actresses laughing)

- [Alan] Okay, one, two.

(Alan claps)

(Harriet laughs)
(Isaac laughs)

(Harriet laughs)
(Isaac laughs)

(Isaac laughs)

(Isaac laughs)

(Isaac cooing)

(Isaac humming)
(daughter laughing)

(actors fighting)

(gun shots)
[VJ Emmie starts narrating]

[VJ Emmie continues narrating]

- [Alan] But I don't see it
anywhere else in the world

period.

But I think you're going to.

[VJ Emmie narrating]

(gun shots)

(Isaac laughs)

Joking, he's joking.

It's like that
so people like said jokes.

Okay? You understand now.

(people yelling)
(explosions)

(people yelling)
(explosions)

- [Isaac] Okay, action!

- Dodge!

(Alan screams)

- [Alan] Isaac created
a new genre with me

that he's excited about.

It's called

"Beating up the
White Person" genre

And it turns out all of Uganda
is just in love with it,

and I think it's funny as hell.

And we kind of found this
by accident.

(punches and Alan screaming)

(big punch and Alan screaming)

At one point we're at
this final fight sequence

and I was supposed to punch

and this is right by
the raw sewage here.

I lost my footing.

I realize I'm going
into the raw sewage.

But I ain't going alone
because the cameras are rolling

and so I grab the bad guy
and together we go "ahh!"

Going into the shit.

And so I realize in retrospect

that was really like my
baptism in a lot of ways.

(beautiful Spanish guitar music)
(people chattering)

(Spanish guitar music)
(people chattering)

(Isaac and Alan laughing)

- [Alan] My whole life
I've worked in film

but in different capacities.

Film has always
meant a lot to me

and learning how it works

and I spent years just traveling
production to production.

(light guitar music)

I would sleep anywhere.

I mean I've lived
in editing studios,

I've lived in my car.

If I find something that
I'm really passionate about

I just kind of dropped
everything and went there.

And then I was a program
director for a film festival

for a number of years and
I absolutely loved it.

But I was also getting
burnt out.

I really missed kind of

why I got into film
in the first place,

that feeling of
joy and creativity.

I just wasn't clicking anywhere.

So I was 42,
I was in a relationship

and, uh,

she wanted it to grow
and I wanted it to grow

but money, of course,
is a problem.

I wasn't making much money.

I wasn't satisfied with
what I was doing.

And the day I bought the
wedding ring, she left me.

It was the perfect storm
in my life.

And two weeks later,
I went to Uganda.

(person clapping)

(everyone clapping)

[Camerawoman starts talking]

(people clapping and cheering)

- Okay, action!

(tense soundscape)

(feet shuffling)

(light music)
(people chattering)

(children yelling to Alan)

- Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

What's the "envili?"

You like the hair yeah?

You want to see?
You want to see?

(children hooting)

- Alan, now he lives with us,
next to us. (chuckles)

- [Alan] So I sold
everything I had

or got rid of it.

I sold my car,

I gave up my apartment.

My cat is now with my mom.

And that's how I knew like
I'm all in.

(Isaac and Alan chatting)

(Isaac singing)

Is that Dolly Parton?

(Isaac laughs)

They're great. They're great.

- Okay, so it rained a lot
so there's mud here.

Let's see.

We think he's made
47 films in 11 years,

from when he founded the studio.

- [Isaac] Hello!

- [Journalist on Skype
interviews Isaac]

- This is everything.

Yeah.

That's a helicopter.

(tool snapping)

(torch sizzles)

(gunfire)

(actors yelling and gunfire)

(explosion booming)

(prop gun rattling)

(motorcycle sounds)
(driver yelling)

(gunfire)

- [VJ Emmie narrates]

(gunfire)

(laughs)

Cock and fire. (mimics shooting)

(Dauda mimics gun cocking sound)

Boom boom boom!

(gun is cocked)

(gun is cocked again)

(gunfire)

(gunfire)

(Dauda laughing)

(Dauda pretends to shoot)
Maaaaaariiiiaaaaa!

(Dauda laughs)

(Dauda giggling)

(cranking motor)

(motor starts)

(gunfire sound effects)
(Dauda yelling)

- It's exciting.

(actors singing)

(drum banging)

(drums continue)

(actors selling their DVDs)

(Harriet giggling)

(drumbeat)

(goat bleating)

(Isaac blocking the scene
with actors)

(Isaac laughing)

- [Alan] So in the beginning,

I thought this was going
to be very easy,

very easy, because he's
had millions of views

well before I came here,
well before I saw it.

I came here late in the game.

- [Isaac]
We are moving together.

- Okay. No problem.

[Alan] But whenever
I would talk to anyone,

the big question is violence.

And it never really
occurred to me

because it's comedy action.

It's almost like
a Road Runner cartoon.

Like true violence, I think,
makes you ill.

Like to me, the Cohen brothers
are extremely violent.

But I would get so much crap

that I am promoting this image
of violence in East Africa.

- Are we set?

Okay, action!

(ATV rumbling)

- [Alan] And, you know, if
Isaac was a serious filmmaker

what he should do is
something about poverty.

(Isaac yelling direction
to actors)

(ATV rumbling)

(crowd cheers)

- Photo! (laughs)

(crowd cheers and applauds)

- [Alan] But my argument is

that this is a different
narrative about Africa.

- [Isaac] That was great.
(laughs)

(Isaac greets his neighbor)

(helicopter sound overhead)

(distorted echoing
war soundscape)

(distorted soundscape
of gunfire)

(distorted helicopter humming)

(loud thunder crash)

(Isaac demonstrating
the yelling he wants)

OK Action!

(helicopter humming)

(children yelling)
(helicopter roaring)

(distorted apocalyptic music)
(helicopter roaring)

(distorted apocalyptic music)

(children breathing heavily)

- [Alan] We'll change it.
We'll change this to Uganda.

- [Harriet] They're for
advertisement.

- [Son] Advertisement for what?
(upbeat music)

[Harriet] Marketing.

- [Alan] Isaac is 44.

The life expectancy for
his generation is mid-'50s.

And we act like we're 22.

And what goes through
my head very much

is that he's
at his peak creatively.

And so my job is to put
kerosene on the bonfire.

And Isaac talks about this

where like to be respected
within Uganda

you need to first make
a name for yourself outside.

- [Isaac] Let us start
as if we were-

- [Alan] Yeah yeah.

- [Harriet behind Camera]
Normal.

If you want to join this movie,
please!

It's you who's going to say,
join!

And after joining
and then you freeze.

- Okay.

- Please if you want to
be part of this-

- Join.

- [Harriet] Again, again.

- If you want to be
part of this please-

- Please join!

(head explodes)

(head explodes)

(Isaac and Alan laughing)

[Alan voiceover]

I think my first true feeling
of joy with film making is here.

It's in Wakaliga.

My life up until this point
is searching for this.

- Microphone check!
Take it.

- [Alan] Hello, sir,
can you hear me?

Do you want to see Wakaliwood?

I'll give you a little tour.

Here's Mr. Isaac.

- Hello!

- The world of action film making

has grown a little larger
in recent years

thanks in part to movies

from the Central African nation
of Uganda.

- [Al Jazeera Reporter]

Isaac Nabwana's
latest action film.

He makes almost one every month.

The entire budget for
each film is about $200.

And since Isaac started putting
the trailers on YouTube,

he's attracted fans
from all over the world.

This camera tripod is
made from a carjack.

- The entire Wakaliwood
studio operations

takes place here
at Isaac’s house.

This is where the edit suite is,

to my left is the props studio,

and behind is where
they have rehearsals.

(energetic, upbeat '70s music)

[Alan voiceover]
I used to work as a publicist,

so I have a good deal
of experience.

And I'm a huge fan of marketing.

Like I love publicity.
And that's what I used to do.

And so it's been
a hell of a year.

We got a lot of coverage.

We got coverage from NEON in
Germany was the very first,

but then VICE
was the first in English.

And then Wall Street
Journal is coming out.

MSNBC, and Huffington Post,
Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN.

I need posters.

There you go. Uh-huh.

- [Journalist] How do you feel
now that your work is being seen

in other countries
outside of Uganda?

- Yeah, I never expected a lot
of attention from the world.

But it is happening, you know.

(energetic, upbeat '70s music)

(Alan thuds)

(Harriet and actors
laughing and cheering)

- [Alan] I still got it.

- [BBC News Reporter]
Despite shoestring budgets,

his films feature
car chases, helicopters,

special effects and
choreographed fight scenes.

- [Alan] This is from Russia.
Esquire magazine.

(people chattering)

- [Group] WOW!

- [Alan] That is France.

Germany.

- [Harriet] Thank you very much.

- [Alan] It's OK?

- [Harriet] Yeah.

(energetic, upbeat '70s music)

- [Isaac] We have been
all over the news.

Like this,
the Wall Street Journal.

"Africa's Tarantino Brings
Mayhem to Uganda Slums."

(energetic, upbeat '70s music)

- This is Isaac’s wife.

- Hello.

- [Journalist] So what's
your role within this?

- [Alan] It's like, it's
it's evolving.

I mean like what it is
is basically we're partners

is what it is.

We're partners, basically.

So we work together
on everything.

But there's no profit yet.

Right now we're just surviving.
That's how it is.

And I love it

and I hate it.

I hate the heat,

I hate the dust,

I hate the lack of electricity,

I hate the lack of plumbing.

I hate the fact that we
can't get hard drives.

I hate that we lose our chips
for the cameras,

and they get destroyed and
we lose footage, always.

I hate all that.

But, you know, I love it.

I love what we do here
and it's become my family.

You need to do this
each morning.

My hair.

(children giggling)

(children chattering)
(water flowing)

(traffic rumbling)

(children chattering)

(crickets chirping)

(Isaac chatting with
his daughter)

(Daughter Gitti chuckling)

(Isaac and his son,
Isaac Newton, chuckling)

(delightful, curious music)

(everyone laughing)

- [Kids] Yeahhh (giggling)

(light dreamy music)

(light dreamy music)

(Isaac and family
lightly chattering)

(rooster crows)
(early morning Wakaliga sounds)

- [Bukenya] Ready?

- [Child] Yes!

- One.
(child grunts)

Two.
(child grunts)

Speed up, three.
(child grunts)

Four.
(child grunts)

Five.
(child grunts)

One.
(child grunts)

Good. Two.
(child grunts)

Three.
(child grunts)

Eight, nine, ten.

One, two, three.

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

(group grunts)

(Bukenya coaching
the Waka Starz)

- Speedy. Five.
(group grunts)

Six.
(group grunts)

Seven.
(group grunts)

Eight.
(group grunts)

Nine.
(group grunts)

Two punches. One!
(group grunts)

Two!
(group grunts)

(Harriet humming and Waka Starz
practicing in background)

(carrot peeling)

Today.

(children chattering)

(kids chattering)

(mid-day Wakaliga sounds)

- It's not a bad year.
(magazing plops)

It's not a bad year.

I mean you see like the
kind of outreach we have

like on every
frickin' continent.

Last time I counted it
was like 40 million views.

But what's very
interesting to me

is that we've never been
approached for funding,

not one person approached,

not even just curious
about investing.

So for me it's obvious.

The next part is bringing Isaac
to the West.

That's going to be the
most important step next.

They need to hear Isaac’s story
from Isaac himself.

That's what's going to
blow open the doors.

(crescendoing '80s action music)

(gunshot)
(music ends)

So that's -
that's the mission next.

And then how to frickin'
get a visa.

It ain't gonna be easy.

(driving '60s guitar
and orchestral music)

(driving '60s guitar and
orchestral music continues)

You see?

That's why he's going
to be eaten.

(Harriet laughing)

- It is a problem?

(Harriet laughing hard)

- Alan.

- Let me show you.

- I can't keep up with it.

That's how we do it in
Manhattan. I don't know what.

[Isaac talking to actor]

(actor screams)

- (chuckles) It's uncanny.
Just completely.

- [Actress] Let me see the skin.
Kind of.

- I'm telling you, we're
brothers of another mother.

- Yes. It works.
- It's frightening.

(Isaac laughing)

(Isaac fawning over wig
and laughing)

(everyone laughing)

(upbeat music)

(upbeat music)

Cut, cut, cut, cut!

(upbeat music)

(actors grunting)

- [Alan Voiceover] I have
many nicknames here, you know.

Jesus for one.
But another one is Chuck Norris.

They somehow think
I look like Chuck Norris.

(upbeat music)
(actors grunting)

(upbeat music)

- [Isaac] Cut, cut.

(group laughs and cheers)

- So this is the
Wakaliwood cannibal village.

So what you're gonna see happen

is maybe five or six of them
carry me in

and put me on this
table we just built.

And they're going to
cut off my leg, eat that first,

I grab it from them.

I beat the hell out of 'em.

And then they proceed
to rip my guts open,

which are being prepared
at the moment,

there's actually a goat
being slaughtered

and the head cut off
and gutted right now,

and they're shaving it
to make it look pink like I am.

We got to do it quickly
because they wanna eat it.

It will work.
Yeah, it will work.

(Isaac screams like Alan dying)

(laughs) So we like him, we
like Alan dying with that sound.

(motorcycle rumbling)

(upbeat music)

(motorcycles roaring
Alan screaming)

(actors yelling and cheering)

(actors yelling and cheering)

(bright chime music)

(dramatic rhythmic music)

- [Bukedde TV host]

(CEO Robert Kabushenga laughs
while shooting with Maria)

- [Robert Kabushenga
starts talking]

(energetic drum music)

(energetic drum music)

- [Bukedde Host
interviews Isaac]

- [Bukedde Host] Action movies.

- Yeah.

[Isaac voiceover]

(funky, energetic '70s music)

(funky, energetic '70s music)

(funky, energetic '70s music)

(funky, energetic '70s music)

(upbeat energetic music)

(children chattering)

(children chattering)

(thunder rumbling)

(Harriet ripping bananas)

(thunder rumbling)

(thunder crashes)

(pouring rain)

(pouring rain)

(sprinkling rain)

(sprinkling rain)

(water sloshing)

(cars honking)

[Isaac voiceover]

(traffic swooshing and honking)

(Alan sighs)

(video call activation noise)

(traffic swooshing and honking)

- Okay, Ma.

- [Mom] Hi.

- How are you?

- Okay. Yeah, yeah.

- I don't know what to say.

It's... you know?

It's...

- I could tell.

- Things are getting
interesting here.

Yeah, so I haven't spoken
with Isaac in weeks,

he hasn't spoken to me
I should say.

And it's around the time when
the millionaire showed up

from the national television.

Starting, once he showed up,
there's been no communication.

- Okay.

- Basically, I don't know
what's going on. I have no idea.

I'm not involved,
that's all I know.

It's like if you
want to dump me,

if you want to go in this
direction, then say it.

I'm just beat up
from everything.

- Yeah, I know.

- Bye Ma. Thanks.

- Bye, honey.

(traffic swooshing and honking)

- If you have anything
you know bothering you,

come to me.

Instead of you know the way
you've been acting these days,

that you go and come
very late at night,

and I told you that
it is dangerous,

especially you are
an American here.

You know, Americans think
they are superior of this world.

If an American dies here,
they will come here.

I tell you. They will come
here and they will question me.

So if you don't want to stay
with us, then you don't.

- It's just because I haven't...

I don't know anything
that's happening here.

And whenever I try to talk
to you about anything,

I don't feel like I get
straight answers from you.

- I told you that we are
going to make a series.

- You didn't tell me that.

- You didn't what?
- You didn't tell me that.

- You told me that we're do...
Okay, okay, okay.

- But I think I told you,

but I don't even
have to tell you,

if I'm doing something Ugandan,
it's not international.

What I know about is you were
catering about international

and I'm catering about Africa.

- I am focused about
international. Right.

What I explained to you
what I'm doing

is trying to get you
to the West.

So when I'm asking
about the TV series,

it's not that I want-
- it seems you don't,

you did not want - I know -
a TV series.

You did not want me involved
with Kabushenga. I know that.

I know. I saw it from you but-

- Yeah, but I need
to be informed of, say,

like simple things like what
are your time commitments now?

- What I care about is
I want to see things moving.

Kabushenga is a good deal for me

because that is what I want.

- For me I just want this to be
the biggest best thing.

You know, basically, well,
you know what I want.

What I want is the world
to know what I have seen.

Then I think almost
like the world is open,

like for anything that
you might want to do,

and you know
that's what I'm working on.

- I told you about my problems,

but I did not even tell you all.

But there are so many problems

out of this international media
and everything.

Because all Ugandans thought
that I had got a lot of money.

For sure,
they think I have money.

- So like what I'm working on
also takes months, you know,

months to set up.

I think if you're there,
with a world premiere,

you will destroy the West.

I think you will be able
to choose anything,

because I think we're
doing okay, but everyone...

I want people to hear you
from your voice,

not from magazine-

- But let me also tell you
something you should know.

Working with Kabushenga

will help you to
take me to the West.

I can go elsewhere,
if I'm understood nationally.

Because they know I'm
attached to a TV station,

they are the big people we need.

Anyway, you should understand
in Uganda,

I think even in America,
that you have to be famous

sometimes to get - you know -
that sort of little privilege.

Kabushenga is enough.

The way he talks to me
when I talk to him,

it's like we are friends.

- Do you think it's a
good idea if I meet him?

With the two of you?

- I think we need to first work.
That's what I think.

- That's where I'm in the
middle and I don't know-

- Yeah, no one
is going to push me.

- I need to know simply
that is this something

you're still interested in,

frankly,
are we still a film studio?

- I'm the owner of this
and I started it,

so I need an independent
mind about what I'm doing.

Now I have the big man,
so I'm proud of that.

So if you don't want that,
then you don't.

(dark, uneasy music)

- [Alan voiceover]
I think it's over here.

I think it's finished.

I very much get the sense
that I'm not welcome here.

My whole thing in life is that
I think I do everything right

and then I'm just
kicked in the teeth

and I have no idea
what happened.

This is exactly like me
buying the wedding ring,

and then that day I'm done.

This is exactly the same thing.

It took four and a half years
now to build it to this point

so this guy can come and then
they just sign everything.

It's like holy shit.

(thunder booming)

- [Harriet] Wake up. You're
going to be late for school.

Okay, come.

(motorcycle rumbling)
(water splashes)

(ducks quacking)

(TV muttering)

(goats bleating)

(Isaac swishing)

(goats bleating)

- [Isaac voiceover]

(family chattering
in the background)

(kids yelling)

(loud construction sounds)

(hammer banging)

- [Alan voiceover]
I'm not part of it anymore.

I just...

You know,
I don't know what's going on.

I don't know anything.

It's been so many years
at this point.

I'm in debt.
My credit is shot, of course.

Literally zero
in my bank account.

I mean, I've got nothing.

I put in everything.

You know, I've got nothing.

But it was to build
something together.

I don't know if I need
any of this shit.

The fuck home is anyway.

(lonely guitar / driving
percussive music )

So Isaac wants to focus on this
local production right now.

And maybe he's right.

And maybe right now my
presence is problematic.

I think it's better
if I step back a bit

to let Isaac pursue
this new partnership.

But no matter what happens,
it's no regrets.

(airplane swooshing)

(chickens peeping)

(people chattering)

- [Isaac Voiceover]

(Isaac reviews footage
with actors)

(Apollo laughs)

(light rhythmic music)

- Action!

(people chattering)

(actors screaming)

(African drum music)

(actors grunting)

Cut.

Okay, action!

(actors grunting)

Cut!

Okay, cool. (claps)

(Isaac compliments the actors)

(feel good guitar music)

(feel good guitar music)

- [Actor over loudspeaker]

(Actors grunting and kicking)

(VJ Emmie narrates
the new TV series)

- [Isaac Voiceover]

- Wakaliga!

(Laughing)

Hello!

- Thank you, thank you.

- I want to have a big studio

and start teaching
the next generation.

(bright music)

- [TV Host]
Welcome to Wakaliwood.

- [Harriet Voiceover]

(Harriet giggles)

- Hello.
- Hello, how are you?

(VJ Emmie announces film)

- [Harriet voiceover]

(children chattering)

(crowd humming)

(train rumbling)

- [Alan] Hello?

- [Alan's Dad] Oh my gosh.

- Alan. Oh my gosh.

- [Alan's Mom]
Oy yoy yoy yoy! My son.

So good to have you here,
my goodness.

This is my cat.

- [Alan]
Oh where's where's my cat?

- [Mom] Your cat, poor thing.

- Yeah.

Oh look at the thing for
the shirt. It looks great.

- You think so?

- Yes, yes.

- I've got to teach you
Luganda, mom.

"Tugenda." We're going.

(siren wailing)

(laughs) It's cold!

Let's go.

- Yes, I do.

You want it? You want it?

- [Mom] Yeah, we want to buy.

- [Alan] Let's see this thing.

(Alan laughs)

Look. Here, here.

Isaac stands directing
the cannibals.

He reminds them
it's their first taste

of sweet muzungu flesh.

When one snorts and growls,

Nabwana decides they're ready
to start chewing.

(Alan chuckles)

It was always my dream
to be topless in Playboy,

and to be in the
last nude issue.

(Alan chuckles)

That was funny.

- That was funny.

- Ah, okay.

(videogame humming)

(on TV actor screams)

(gunfire)

[Alan voiceover]
I fucked this up good.

(VJ Emmie from the TV)
"I got you man"

I don't think there's any way
that I can look at it

and not think I fucked it up.

(metal clank of light closing)

(children chattering)

(door clanking)

(whisk rattling)

(mixer buzzing)

Ha. Newton this is not yours.

- Mom, why?

- It is for the business.

I'll give you this.

- Thanks.

(lonely, pensive music)

(oven door closes)

(lonely, pensive music)

(street rumbling)

(children chatting)

[Isaac Voiceover]

(traffic swooshing)

(traffic honking)

- So this is my mom's
kitchen table in New York.

And I guess it's, well,
it's Wakaliwood East or West?

I don't know, on the other side.

And it's also...

Well, it's where I live,
basically.

These are T-shirts,
and that's my mom's stuff.

And I sleep on the couch there.

And my parents are away

getting lunch
so I'm taking advantage.

With Isaac I think that was
the first time in my life

where I just felt a chemistry,
like a creative chemistry,

like I felt I was bringing
out really great stuff in him

and he was bringing out
great things in me.

And coming from where I was,
I was ready for marriage.

I wanted a lifelong commitment.

And then when that ended,

my heart was still in this
idea of marriage I think,

so I think that's what
Wakaliwood became for me

it was like
I was married into it,

and my feeling with marriage

is that it's not about
the easy times.

You know, I read a lot about
how bands break up. (laughs)

It always comes down
to communication,

or lack thereof, it seems.

But it's gonna be six
years soon for me there.

I mean that's almost... The
Beatles were together for seven.

That's a long time.

And we could've been The
Beatles of exploding heads man.

Still can be.

But for me personally,
Isaac is the one.

And I just have to prove to him
that I'll do anything.

So, even though Isaac is
working on the local stuff

and we're not talking too much,
I have to keep going.

I have to follow up
on these leads

that I've been working on
for years.

So I was able to get this
screening in Kazakhstan.

Of all places. (laughs)

God forbid that they want
to buy DVDs, you know,

so that's what
I'm preparing for.

And we have to do it.

And right now it's only me
because I've got the damn visa.

But now we'll see if
it works for an audience.

Not just on YouTube, but for
a live audience in a theater.

Maybe it doesn't,
and I'm just crazy.

(airplane swooshing)

(bright strange music)

(bright strange music continues)

(bright strange music continues)

Isaac would tell me
in the beginning,

that he could die happy

because of just the
trailer for "Captain Alex."

And when he saw
millions of people saw it,

he felt like he contributed
something to art

and to the world and people
know his work and he can retire.

You know, he was very peaceful,
like no! We did something.

And I now I feel,
you know, the same

in that I just wanted to
enter him into the conversation

of film and art and life

and he's there.

And that was the mission.

The First Mission.

Part Two then
is to establish Isaac

as an artist of the first order.

(canyon wind blowing)

(bird of prey shrieking)

(crowd humming)

(Alan giggling)

(VJ Emmie starts the
narration of the movie)

(cheerful frenzied music)

(VJ Emmie narrating movie)

(actor delivers dialogue)

(gun shots)

(VJ Emmie narrates the movie)

(audience applauds)

- You see why I moved there,
yeah?

- We have some DVDs here from
Uganda. And they should work.

You know,
they don't always work.

I'm telling you, like I think
he is the real thing.

Like I think he's a
world class storyteller.

Like I think people
from all over the world

are seeing something.

(airplane swooshing)

(upbeat music)

[Alan] Everything is
going according to plan.

It's pouring rain, it's cold,
no one's here.

- In Belgium we are used to
more classic stories,

so it's nice, it's funny
but it's different.

- For me it's eye-opening.

Because they don't want to
make movies about poverty

and this and that
they just want action movies.

And it's crazy
and it's beautiful.

I've never seen
anything like it.

(crowd humming)

- [Alan] They are great.

And the thing is,
like they still do not know

how good they are.

Yeah, do you know?
Do you know Wakaliwood?

Do you know?
This is their first autographs.

(actors grunting)

(VJ Emmie narrating)

(audience loudly laughing)

(audience cheers)

- It's happening.

- Yeah. Yeah.

- It's global.

(Alan speaks in
foreign language)

(Alan laughs)

- Are any of these folks
going to be here?

- No, because of visas.

You know if they were wealthy
it might have been different.

So the answer is yes,
they're coming,

but we're figuring it out.

(gunfire)

(helicopter humming)

(audience laughs)

(audience applauds)

- [Alan voiceover]
I just wish he

could have been there with me.

Or instead of me.

(airplane swooshing)

[Alan voiceover]
So I'm gonna meet Peter.

He's now the head programmer
for Midnight Madness

at Toronto International
Film Festival,

which is easily one of the
top five film festivals

on the planet,
and what that means

is that it's got
an amazing audience

but it's also the industry.

All the producers, all the
directors, all the agents,

all the managers,
everyone is there,

to look at the new set of
films to be discovered.

And Peter was a big fan of
ours from the beginning.

- I mean the real
short of it is like,

I would love to play a
Wakaliwood film at Toronto,

at TIFF at Midnight Madness.

I've mentioned it
to the organizers there

and it sounds great,
and they have resources

that they'd like to throw
at like trying to figure out

how we can try
to get Isaac to be there.

- With Isaac there in person,
that's the frickin' dream.

And this would be the first time

he's in a movie theater
anywhere.

That's what I want
is him as an artist

to be in the audience.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, that's the thing.

Midnight at the Ryers,
it's like 1,200 seats.

- Jesus Christ.

- And we fill it.

(video fast rewind
sound effects)

(car humming)

(Alan sighs)

- [Alan] Hey.

(Alan laughs)

How are you?

(children respond in Luganda)

(Alan laughs)

- Alan, it's nice to see you!

(people laughing)

- Friend look at that belly.

Welcome back.

- Welcome back.

- Ay-yay-yay, welcome.
Jesus of Uganda!

- No, you know what it is?

(Boof, people laughing)

(door squeaking)

All right, let's see the smell.

Hey, it's not bad.

Hey, it's not bad!

Rar!

- [Newton] Hi how are you?

(Alan laughing)

- [Alan] How are you?

- I'm fine.

- Hey I have something for you.

(Alan attempts to speak
in Luganda)

Holy crap! I spoke!

(Alan laughs)

Ah-hah.

Thank you!

You want to see this?

(children muttering in Luganda)

(birds crying)

- Alan!

Hey, wake up.

- [Alan] Okay.

- [Isaac] Eh-heh.

- [Alan] Ah, fuck.

Oh Jesus.

- Okay, let's have a little talk
there in the other office.

Yeah, let's have
a little talk and see.

(people chattering)

- Let's do this.

(computer program beeps)

("Eaten Alive in Uganda
plays on laptop)

- I have this,
the beginning of the movie.

(object rattling)

(Alan and Isaac
burst out laughing)

(rooster caws)

- Let's see it.

Yeah, go!

(Alan laughs)

I'm great! I'm good.

- Yeah, exactly.

(both laughing)

(Isaac and Alan
cracking up laughing)

- Oh god. I was thin, Isaac.

But that's danger thin.
That's that's...

Oh my god!

- So we need that size again.

- That can't... That is not...

You know, I win an Oscar
if I get to be that size again.

- But I think we have enough.

We might get some extra shots

when you are this size, but
we'll try to hide some features.

- God, I look thin.

This is great, Isaac. That's it.

I can sell that.

It's going to be like
"Gone with the Wind."

(Alan laughing)

(Isaac giggling)

We do have very strong offers
to play the film

in very strong places,
Isaac, for this.

- We already have
a big part of it.

- Or, if you prefer,
I'm just sayin',

"Eaten Alive,"
I know people want,

but if you prefer "Crazy World."

- In fact with "Crazy World,"

because it has the children,

I think it would be great.

- Yeah.

So you know, Isaac, that for me,

the ultimate mission is
I want you to be happy.

Because what I feel is,
when you are happy and excited,

it is the best art in the world.

(Isaac presses play on laptop)

- I think that's cool.

- That's great.

(actors screaming)

(Isaac and Alan laughing)

- [Isaac voiceover]

(both laughing)

(driving upbeat music)

- Ow.

Where's the taxi?

- Where the taxi? Um.

(slower upbeat music)

- [Host] Yes you can hear me.
Look at that.

That's how we check. Beautiful.

How do we sound over there?
How do we sound?

Give me a thumbs up
if we sound good.

You can laugh.
Laugh if we sound good.

Laugh if we sound good.

Okay, great,
so you're hearing me.

(crowd muttering)

(audience cheers)

- Good evening.
Hello everybody. Hello.

Welcome.

I'm glad to be here because
this is a special night.

This is a historic night.

This is the night of the world
premiere of "Crazy World!"

(audience cheers)

(audience cheers)

- [VJ Emmie] Yes, yes, yes,
okay, fasten your seat belts.

Now the action begins!

(gunfire)

Commando!

(gunfire)

Dauda Bisasso. Tiger Mafia!

It's a crazy world.
It's a crazy night in Toronto.

(audience laughs)

Action!

(actors screaming)

(punch)

(punch)

(audience applauds)

(VJ Emmie narrating)

Van Damme!

Van Damme!

(audience applauds)

- From the kings of Wakaliwood,

the makers of the best of the
best movies, Isaac Nabwana!

(huge audience cheer)

(audience cheering swells)

(huge audience applause)

- [Isaac] Thank you very much.

(light orchestral
background music)

You don't know what
it means to me

to be here.

I can't believe what I'm seeing.

It makes me cry.

It's not because I'm sad
but I'm happy,

that I'm here finally!

As an artist,

you want your works to
go all over the world

and this team really fought hard
to see that we come.

I know very well that
the audience is my family

in this world.

I don't know what to say
but it means a lot to me.

(huge audience response
with cheering as music swells)

(audience cheers and applauds)

(hopeful orchestral music)

(operatic soprano sings)

(audience applauds)

(operatic soprano sings)

(epic driving music)
(helicopter humming)

(gunfire)

(gunfire, explosions)

(explosions booming)

(epic music)

(explosions booming)
(children and Alan yelling)

(gunfire)

(gunfire)

(gunfire, actors yelling)
(explosion booming)

(huge explosion)

(epic orchestral music)

(gunfire)

(huge explosion)

(low dramatic orchestral music)

(edgy energetic music)

(edgy energetic music continues)

[MUSIC]

Let me tell you something new

About the history of the man

He's got nothing to lose

(energetic music continues)

For he's got something better

His son's a vision of him better

It's the history of the man

(energetic music continues)

(energetic music continues)

He stands out to lose

The one he's lost is human

It's the history of the man

(energetic music continues)

(actor yells in
foreign language)

(explosions booming)

(energetic music continues)

(energetic music continues)

(students grunting)

(energetic music continues)

Let me tell you something new

About the history of the man

Cause he's got nothing to lose

(actors grunting)

(energetic music continues)
(Alan and actors yelling)

For he's got something better