I recently watched a short documentary from the 1960s about wrestling in Senegal; I ought to explore African cinema more thoroughly.

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    8 days ago

    You gotta watch Who Killed Captain Alex by Wakilawood (CW: Pretty sure the commentary overdubs in the video have some misogynistic and probably other offensive content, I can't remember haven't watched it in years).

    So, legend has it, Wakaliwood started out as a dude in Uganda with a camcorder and a laptop with one small hard drive. He could only produce one film at a time, since he had very limited hard drive space and had to delete all his previous files once he started a new film.

    The only known existing copy of this movie (linked on YT above) contains commentary from a "video joker" - which seems to be a sort of African version of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" commentary.

    These days, Wakaliwood makes over $2000 per month on their Patreon.

    10/10 gold star film