Patience Nitumwesiga

East African filmmaker Patience Nitumwesiga's shorts have been featured at Berlinale's EFM, Locarno, and festivals worldwide. She is now developing her first fiction feature, How To Forget Your Name. Common themes across her work include precolonial values, death, African utopianism, and gender deconstruction. Patience's documentary debut The Woman Who Poked The Leopard places a humanist lens upon one of Africa's most iconic political prisoners. She co-founded the film and storytelling production company SHAGIKA.