The UCC executive director, Godfrey Mutabazi (in checked jacket) handing over some of the goodies that came with the 2017 Film of the Year Award to Hassan Mageye (in blue jacket) for his film Devil’s Chest. Pic: Courtesy
A film on the life of the notorious leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony, played by Samuel Rogers Masaba, has won the 2017 Film of the Year award at the 5th edition of the Uganda Film Festival (UFF) that ended on September 1.
The film, Devil’s Chest by Hassan Mageye, tells the story Kony’s personal life in the bush, sex slavery, the suffering of civilians and the general atrocities of war as committed by the LRA rebels in northern Uganda.
