Bonus Episode: Bobi Wine: The People’s President directors Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp

The Cinematography Podcast Bonus Episode: Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp
In this bonus episode of The Cinematography Podcast, we interview Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp, who collaborated as directors on Bobi Wine: The People’s President. The film is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Co-director and producer Christopher Sharp grew up in Uganda and was a fan of Bobi Wine’s music. He met Bobi and his wife Barbie in London. Christoper says, “When I met him, he’d just run to be an independent member of parliament and he was sort of transitioning from being solely a musician into an activist and a politician. When he told me what he was about to sacrifice, it seemed pretty obvious that we needed to stick with him and see where it went.”
Bobi Wine (Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu) grew up in the slums of Kampala, Uganda and through his musical talent, rose to become an extremely popular and famous Afrobeat musician. Bobi’s music often communicates a socially conscious message aimed at political change. He put himself through university, where he met his wife Barbie. Political activism is extremely important to him, and Bobi successfully ran as an independent candidate for Uganda’s parliament. He then decided to run for president in Uganda’s 2021 election against the dictator Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power for 38 years.
Christopher brought the idea of making the documentary to Moses Bwayo, a Ugandan journalist and filmmaker. Moses followed Bobi with cameras for five years, sometimes with a small crew, using a monopod and available light. Moses used the Sony FS7 and the smaller Sony Alpha a7 III. He often had to just run and gun, serving as both cameraman and director, documenting the tense and frequently dangerous situations Bobi, his family and Moses himself encountered. “We wanted to tell a story of this young, talented musician who comes out of the ghetto to inspire the nation, and he rises into politics and the coalitions he was building in parliament and the bills he was trying to bring. But, as we kept filming, it was very dangerous for him and there was a few attempted assassinations on him. More and more we realized the camera was actually a protection to him… So we just kept on going and going.”
Uganda has been under the control of Yoweri Museveni since 1986. Museveni uses the might of the military police and his political operatives in Parliament to stay in power. When Bobi announced he was going to run for president against Museveni, the military police stepped up their aggressive attacks on him, his family and his campaign workers. “We knew that the closer we stuck with him and his wife and people close to him, it would bring some level of protection, and indeed, even the days I spent under house arrest with Bobby and Barbie, what worried us was that the military and police would break into the house at any moment. But I think what stopped them is when they knew that there was a cameraman in that house- it probably stopped them from breaking into the house.”
Moses and the crew risked their lives to make the film. “I was arrested a few times. I was locked up in jail. I was interrogated, and I was shot in the face close to the election.” Fortunately, Moses recovered from his gunshot wound and the documentary continued. The political situation in Uganda had become very violent, so before they released the film, Moses and his family decided to flee and are seeking asylum in the United States. Though Museveni won election again through terrifying attacks and imprisonment of Bobi and his supporters, Bobi still goes back to Uganda and continues to risk his life to speak out against the government.
Bobi Wine: The People’s President is available on Disney+ under the National Geographic tab, or free on KZbin.
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[@nightallen4704]

At this point Ugandans had nothing to loose. We love our Country Uganda....no one wants to be in a foreign Country forever...

[@mbaleduthomas]

Who else broke down like me 😭 People let's pray for Ugandans

[@daisymoses6812]

Fact still stands: you cannot imprison freedom itself... Instead of our tears and our fellow-feelings we can better offer PEACE & CERTAINTY. We know who is going to win this struggle. And it's not greed for power. And it's not corporate hegemony. And it's not international money laundering banks. And it's not people on the top rank google listings.

[@faridahdavis3691]

Bobbi wine the people's president is the best Documentary I've ever seen so far. everything in it is real. Thank you so much guys.

[@ssembatyaabudul1001]

I watched the campaign but things in that Documentary is not even 5% to what happened in the all campaign only

[@marianakabuye6218]

The fact that Bobi Wine is non violent and he stood up against a man whose mind and being is about violence, it’s amazing how God protected and preserved him and his family.

[@amonyiharriet5954]

😢😢😢😢😢 I feel like crying whenever I try to see that film

[@kobu-pp5zq]

Our Godsent saviour H,E Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the People's President. May God bless you all who made it possible to filn and bring to light the atrocities happening in Uganda.🇺🇬🇺🇬. We Cry for the beloved Country.

[@nuwakizairene6849]

Hello! Please GOD THE CREATOR is only one with a "G", the rest small "g". Thx! I mean well!

[@kasimagwaibrahim9047]

Thanks moses bwayo

[@evelyngold2622]

Congrations our president kyagulanyi sentamu bobiwine thank you for fighting for Ugandans.the dictator must goooo

[@sarahnakyesa5750]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CREATING AWARENESS ABOUT THE BRUILTALITY AND MURDER IN UGANDA , WE ARE HOPFUL UGANDA WILL BE LIBERATED SOME DAY UNDER H.E. ROBERT KYAKULANYI SSENTAMU FOR A BETTER UGANDA

[@sarahali104]

I respect Mr president bobi wine and your team thanks 🙏

[@sarahwamala3501]

Great job. Mr Sharp and Mr Bwayo for bringing this documentary to life.

[@Kamandenamande]

Thanks so much .Bigger respect for you and your work guys we appreciate your support to the struggle . you are the true heroes human rights.✊🏿We’re fighting against the evil dictatorship in Uganda 🇺🇬 and we are fighting for freedom.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇺🇬.

[@dornedri1025]

That's our elected president KYAGULANYI sentamu of Uganda 🇺🇬 ❤❤museveni is a dictator he killed our people for many years 😢 😑 🙄 he must go enough is enough

[@baak1003]

Maximum respect HE Kyangulayi sentamu Robert #Bobiwine#Thepeoplespresident.

[@beatricenamasa8946]

Thank you Mr Bwayo and Mr Sharp for the great job.we thank God for our President Kyagulanyi Robert,Bobi Wine

[@UgandaFirst]

Thanks for raising and sharing our Cry to the world. You Guys have done so much for us that we can't thank you enough.

[@Daniels94951]

This is reality here in uganda

[@Fatma-qr8zz]

❤❤❤ aur president bobi wain🎉🎉🎉

[@ssema5984]

You guys have done an incredible job, Uganda is not gonna be the same and this documentary is the turning point for our freedom

[@nimjulian937]

Thanks to you Bobi's directors Bwayo and Sharp🙏🙏

[@UgandaFirst]

This film has got me crying every time I watch it. THE VERSION on KZbin, Thrs a part that i can't stop crying from 01:19:40 Upto 01:21:41 The elder daughter and couldn't believe her Father has gone back to the road the same day he is released from Jail. Not even having a single night of rest.😢😢 in fact it even made the mother cry in that same scene

[@nimjulian937]

Congratulations Ugandan and African freedom fighter

[@blessedsewamala2256]

Thank you for loving and caring about Uganda and ugandans

[@anonymos3978]

❤❤❤ YOU GUYS YOU DID A VERY GREAT JOB THANKS 🙏 FOR SHOWING WHAT WAS BEHIND THE CURTAINS. AFTER FOR A VERY LONG TIME.❤❤

[@halimakasirye9289]

Thank you so much for the good work

[@AllanTreva]

We have no hope in Uganda...We have only Bobi wine❤❤

[@connienalwooga1669]

May God protect u all 🙏🙏🙏

[@Ronanevans1]

Much respect mr Bwayo

[@isaacochwo6768]

I thank God this film will expose what is going on in Uganda the country has suffered too much

[@bibakumanajeandedieu1162]

Bobi wine is the hope for Africa. No Gun , no Violences, just a Man of full of confidence to change his country for good. Am not from Uganda but I love bobi.💯

[@Ronanevans1]

Always cry when ever I watch this movie

[@Applecathy]

Bobi wine is Uganda's savior ❤

[@connienalwooga1669]

God bless u all the oppressed citizens in Uganda 🇺🇬🇺🇬

[@janiphermaseko]

Thanks our president we love you so much

[@nakabiriramlah1871]

People's president Indeed .the only hope we are remaining with ❤❤❤❤❤ Thanks for the show

[@fatfat178]

my president kyagulanyi 🙏

[@abelmtumz5043]

My president Bobi Wine

[@carolynkakundwa9173]

Thanks for shining the light on the plight of Uganda.

[@asuman4965]

Storms are part of life. The darker they are, the brighter the sky after it clears up. Always be hopeful. Nothing lasts. Your rainbow will emerge to beautify your day when the storm has passed.

[@nightallen4704]

God have Mercy plz have mercy..we pray.

[@makumbisulaiman]

My president Bobiwine ✊🏾

[@julietkristensen8452]

MAXIMUM RESPECT MR & MRS KYAGULANYI🙏🏽

[@balukubenard4907]

My president bobiwine,grt work producer

[@connienalwooga1669]

We shall overcome in God's power 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@magi2723]

Bobi wein we pray that God continu to protect KYAGULANYI SENTAMU und the enteir Team

[@user-xu9hk1gh3d]

Our own Bobi we believe in you

[@musinguzipaul2340]

I do salute you guys you are doing a great job. And maximum respect Mr president.

[@user-ft2km6yr7s]

Maximum Respect Your Excellency RKS The Peoples President You're Truly Heavens Sént

[@kizitoismah6023]

We're very thankful to you🎉😢😮❤😅

[@sarahkiwanuka2872]

Thanks for the good work

[@sankarabobby6153]

❤❤❤❤bobi bobi

[@AaBb-gx6lq]

He's our president of Ugandan

[@user-ti9mc5ti8e]

Bobi was formally an MP before contesting for presidency

[@zanashtv5479]

Mr. Sharp and Mr. Bwayo thank you for this Documentary. Such an eye opener 👁 to what happens exactly behind the Scene. Thanks so much❤

[@jananiogwetta188]

Thanks you all for the great help given to His Excellency Kyagulanyi. M7 is from Rwanda, is not a Ugandan, that is why he is bringing benyarwanda to occupy Uganda. We need to remove Mu7 from power otherwise...

[@SandraLawal-ei6yj]

Why did they allow a rwandese to rule Uganda in the first place

[@trend5140]

Thank you for highlighting the plight of Ugandans in the fight against bad leadership and the search for freedom.

[@nalumansiruth5495]

Bobi wine is my president.

[@godfreymukiibi4512]

Thanks so much u guys you did a great job to show up the right picture the life we live in uganda-

[@agnesmuyanja2833]

Thanks so much for the good work done. And we have hope that one day God will answer our prayers 🙏

[@lindanaava634]

Thank you very much!! ❤

[@alicekin8753]

Uganda is not a poor country, it has all the resources ,but m7 and his kabobdo,has sold all our resources to foreigners , telling the citizens ,that those are investors.

[@trinitycrecy1663]

Thank you guys .love from uganda

[@baak1003]

Maximum respect HE Bobiwine and all our freedom fighters,We shall never give on Uganda let's keep pressing on😢 #saynotocorruptionofficials #Nabanjabringbackjonhbosco #dictatormusevenifreeallpoliticalperisoners #dictatorbringbackourpeople #UgandaIsBleeding #arrestdictatormuseveninow #dictatorMuseveniisADFhimselfstopkillingugandans

[@ronniesenkayi4602]

Thanks Moses and the crew..we really appreciate your resilience! It was not easy and still not easy but we do appreciate the effort you put to fight for people’s rights and freedoms. My opinion is we need to do the same thing museveni did to over throw Idi Amin. museveni is been IDI Amin silently,he just been exposed in the previous elections!

[@SwaimahCerlyx]

I think this M7 guy is worse than Amin,to some extent Iddi Amin loved his country, this Gen.M7 is torturing us in all aspects of life

[@gramostrucking2268]

Heee, name sake Moses thank you for your tactical system approach and together with the producer. For me the only issue I observed, the regime blindfold mostly the class of people in the different categories basically by giving them money and threatening to kill them should they stand different from him. Another issue he subversioned the local leaders, the clergy, the MPs, even he went as fast as in the diaspora to bribe people so that they do not talk against him. You can look at the failure of all the institutions, can you imagine a country to be without a governor of the central bank. Therefore, we still call upon international organizations, the good and well wishes of democracy to talk and expose the regime.

[@Star-tf8yk]

Bob wine his true names by birth kyagulanyi Sentamu Robert is more than being an MP he is the true elected president of Uganda

[@kimondewamala]

Bobi wine is agift from God to our country uganda the Rwandanes wants to take our country uganda but we prayed God to bless our country and bring us agd person and areal ugandan but God answered our prays thanks God.in mr kyagulanyi. ssentuma.Robert .i ttust.

[@user-on6fs9ld1i]

Thank you so much ❤❤❤❤❤

[@fredlutanya9602]

Thanks

[@nightallen4704]

We lost our parentsdue to war...and it has never ended. However, the only difference now is that poverty is an addition to war.... God have Mercy on my motherland. We call it soft or silent torture...and people or the world have not been noticing at all

[@SandraLawal-ei6yj]

I do notice I was also torchered I reported m7 to UK police as I don't live there we care

[@upendrakurmi554]

Omg you guys risked 😢

[@sufuramedicalcenter873]

Thanks for dat exposure n may da funders pliz stop funding da oppressors

[@NassiwaEfrance-vg5jk]

Thxs for the good job

[@Dabymagic]

May God protect Hon. Kyagulanyi aka bobi wine and all Ugandans especially political prisoners. Museveni and NRM government officials stop abducting, torturing and killing innocent Ugandans for supporting Hon. Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine

[@xtinakatende256]

Hope for you

[@harriet7303]

🥺🙏Uganda Needs The World's E4t To Remove A Dictator M7.✊️✊️

[@jowiram4452]

It's too much to handle but Uganda is sinking 😢

[@user-wv1mq7dj7q]

Amanyi gabantu abe Nrm mugawulila

[@harrietmagembe3162]

Museveni turned Uganda into hell, but my advice to fellow Ugandans is to wake up in big numbers to fight Museveni out of Uganda. Period

[@agnesnaluyange6290]

God is in control in everything & we will be free from the Rwandese murderers.

[@SandraLawal-ei6yj]

They hate Ugandans they took everything from us

[@robertrushoka3764]

More video to be added.Because , they are missing.

[@tag_electric5077]

✊🏿🇹🇿🇺🇬🇷🇼

[@kibuukamartinSentamu]

The film it’s self has enough evidence to take Museveni to ICC for his crimes against the people of Uganda but surprisingly he is still doing the same things to the people and fun enough he is not a citizen of Uganda 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@WasswaGodfrey-ou5jm]

Our hope bw p,resident

[@charlesmasterphenomenology4128]

M7 is a foreigner, his parents sought political asylum with as a young boy in early 1950's, They were fad and cared for. How dare he denying all indigenous Ugandans their freedom and human rights.

[@ssembatyaabudul1001]

Brutal regime of dictator museveni

[@WDeni]

Which people are you talking about ?

[@mwanzajoseph2578]

We safer because of Gen Museveni

[@damalienanyong8019]

Are you from space

[@agnesnaluyange6290]

U must be one of the so called kabano group, no wonder.

[@SandraLawal-ei6yj]

The one who kills and kidnaps people how much did he pay u

[@SandraLawal-ei6yj]

U should be ashamed of yourself

[@susangulobaseera5543]

BWAYO. WANYALA. NABI,

[@NassiwaEfrance-vg5jk]

Thxs for the good job