Usama (/ʊˈsɑːmə/) "Osam" Nyanzi Mukwaya (born December 12, 1989) is a Ugandan screenwriter,[1] film director, producer, actor and former television host. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Ama Award and three Amvca Awards.
From 2018 to 2022, Usama served as chief content officer for Stream Afrique, a subscription-based streaming platform that offers online streaming of majorly African content.[4]
Usama is credited as the producer of the 2023 inaugural IKON Awards and the follow-up 2024 edition,[5] the earlier of which marked his first "live" television production.[6]
He is an executive member of Uganda Film Network and a 2019 recipient of the LéO Africa Institute's Young Emerging Leaders Project Fellowship.[7]
After the death of his mother when he was 8, Mukwaya's aunt took him in; when she died too, Mukwaya had to move in with his father and later on with his grandfather. He has four siblings from his mother and numerous from his father.[2]
Education
Usama started pre-education at Saidat Aisha Nursery School and later at Buraaq Infants School, then in Bwaise. After the death of his mother, he was then shifted to Victoria Christian School in Ndeeba and later went on to attend Linnet Primary School in Nabweru, Wakiso District, for his final primary school education. In 2002, Usama joined Shuhada'e Islamic Secondary School for his O-Level and achieved his Advanced Certificate of Education from Nyamitanga Secondary School, both schools in Mbarara.
Mukwaya stands in front, first from right, with fellow 2011 Maisha participants and mentors. Third on the same row is lab founder and film director Mira Nair.
According to The Observer newspaper, Usama started his writing as a child. He made his film industry entry in 2009 through Dan Kiggundu's Maryland Productions, where he debuted as a script editor and supporting actor in the TV drama Pain of Lies, which premiered in 2011.[2][11]
Through the Uganda Film Network, he later joined the Mariam Ndagire Film and Performing Arts Center, where he worked on his first short film, Hello, which won the overall best film at the 2010 MNFPAC Awards. In July 2011, he made it to the final selection of the 12 screenwriters from all over East Africa to participate in the 7th Maisha Film Lab, ending up with a collaboration with Diana Karua in the making of the movie She Likes Prada.[2][12]
Kinna-Uganda (Ugandan film) has something to do with mediocrity. We should follow the trends of other industries like Hollywood, Bollywood, and Nollywood; let us call our industry Ugawood.
Amidst the other four young directors, he directed his first film, Smart Attempt, written by Julian Nabunya and Abel Mwesigwa, during the first season of the Movie Furnace program in August 2012. He went on to participate in the program's second season with his short film In Just Hours, emerging as the season's winner for best short film director.[14][15][16][17]
He has worked as a general secretary and treasurer of the Screenwriter's Guild of Uganda Film Network and as general secretary of the Pearl International Film Festival before being appointed festival programmer for the 7th, 8th, and 9th editions consecutively.[2][18]
On March 25, 2012, Usama was quoted by The Observer alongside Ashraf Ssemwogerere in an interview about naming the growing film industry in Uganda, in which he stated that Ugawood could have been the appropriate name, citing that Kinna-Uganda had to do with mediocrity.[13]
In July 2014, Mukwaya started his own filmproduction company, O Studios Entertainment, based in Uganda, that immediately opened with the production of the short film, Tiktok, written and directed by himself. The studio has continued to produce various films including his directorial debut, Love Faces and The Passenger, among others.[22]
Film breakthrough
(2014–2018): Bala Bala Sese, Rehema and Love Faces
Usama in 2014
Immediately after Maisha Film Lab in 2011, Usama met video director Lukyamuzi Bashir of Badi Films and began working on Bala Bala Sese,
marking his first feature film as a producer and writer. The film, which also doubles as Lukyamuzi's directory debut, was released on July 3, 2015, at the theater Labonita.[23][24] It became one of the first Ugandan projects to receive a professional marketing structure and continued to top the best Ugandan films of 2015 and the following year.[25][26]
In 2018, after the first collaboration with Bobby Tamale on the silent short film Tiktok, Mukwaya and Bobby released Love Faces, Usama's feature directory debut, where he teamed up again with actors Laura Kahunde (Hello) and Patriq Nkakalukanyi (Tiktok), alongside first-timer Moses Kiboneka Jr.[35] The film was a co-production between Tamz Production and Usama's O Studios Entertainment. Love Faces won best picture at the Viewers Choice Movie Awards and was nominated at the 2017 Uganda Film Festival for Best Costume Design and Production Design, 2018 Amakula International Film Festival for Best Feature Film among other nominations.[36][37]
2021 – present: The Passenger
The Blind Date marked the second collaboration between Usama and Loukman Ali after working together on the first season of Kyaddala TV Series, which was released in 2019.[38]
The Blind Date is the first of the three episodes meant to make an anthology of sorts. The short film features Martha Kay alongside Michael Wawuyo Jr. and Raymond Rushabiro, who stars as former army man – Jacob, alongside Riverdan Rugaaju, Patriq Nkakalukanyi, and Allen Musumba. It won Best Short film at the 2021 Uganda Film Festival.[39] A follow-up episode titled Sixteen Rounds premiered on September 16, 2021. The 37-minute short features Michael Wawuyo Jr. again and Natasha Sinayobye in leading roles.[40] It won best short film at the 43 Durban International Film Festival,[41][42] Best short film at the 7th Mashariki African Film Festival[43] and received a special mention at the 11 Luxor African Film Festival.[44] Loukman announced in October 2021 that a feature film based on the Sixteen Round's story was in the making and Usama would be producing it, but it was later cancelled.[45][46]
In 2023, Usama produced Nambi,[47] an adaptation of a Ugandan folk tale called Kintu, written and directed by Peter Mikiibi and coproduced by Dennis Arthur Abwakat. The short film won an award for best international short film, the audience award at the 2023 Kortfilmfestival Kalmthout and was also nominated for the Best Short Film award at the 2023 Uganda Film Festival.
In the same year, Usama released The Passenger, his next feature film after Love Faces, which premiered on Maisha Magic Movies, a Dstv channel. Commissioned by Mnet, the film was directed by Hadijah Nakanjako, written by Meddy Sserwadda, and stars Henry Nathan Katongole, Allen Musumba, and Olot Bonny Elem in leading roles. It received 11 nominations at the Uganda Film Festival 2023 and won five awards. It was also nominated twice at the 2024 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards. Usama doubles as the film's executive producer through O Studios Entertainment.[48]
The series, set in present-day high school life, focuses on real-life social issues that affect young people in Africa and stars actors from Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda.[51][52] It was announced in October 2020 that the series would be renewed for the second season, with Usama returning as producer and in talks to direct as well.[53] Kyaddala Season 2 premiered again on NBS TV on March 4, 2022, with Usama producing and directing the entire season.[54][55]
In July 2020, Usama joined the production of the first season of MultiChoice Uganda' original TV series, Sanyu.[56] The series premiered on DStv Uganda's Pearl Magic Prime on February 8, 2021, at the official launch of the channel.
On October 18, 2022, Usama was named as the producer of the inaugural edition of The iKON Awards: Film and Television which happened on March 25, 2023. This marked his first "live" television production credit for a major show. The awards are meant to recognize and reward personalities in the Ugandan film and television industry.[57][58][59] He returned as the show producer again on the second edition in 2024.[60]
Philanthropy
Mukwaya began his philanthropic work in January 2015 with Empowerment of Disadvantaged Youth and Children (EDYAC) when he traveled to Tororo in eastern Uganda to share life experiences. He and Bobby Tamale, with whom they had previously worked, later made a documentary, which is now available on YouTube, about their experience with the video directed and narrated by Mukwaya.[61]
Usama Mukwaya Scholarship
The Usama Mukwaya Scholarship is an annual merit-based scholarship offered by Usama to support outstanding, collaborative, rising Ugandan creatives in an innovative one-year film and theatre experience. It is administered by Marisul, a non profit organization founded by Usama himself. The inaugural scholarship was awarded in May 2021 to Kizito Ismael after winning best theatre production at the Mariam Ndagire Film and Performing Arts Center, Class of 2021. As of 2023, a total of three scholarships have been awarded. [62]
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