WRITER:

Dr. Agnes Nasozi Kamya

The Ugandan feature film “Imani” was written by Dr. Agnes Kamya, a writer and anthropologist based in Kampala Uganda. Dr. Kamya initially completed an M Eng in Civil Engineering at Imperial College, London and worked for some years in the development field before eventually following her dream to write and study anthropology. After completing her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of London in early 2008, she was commissioned to write her first screenplay by her sister, director Carol Kamya, through her multimedia company IVAD International. Dr. Kamya is currently a Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute for Social Research in Kampala, Uganda. She combines her creative and academic work by focusing on the intersection of Anthropology, performance and representation.

The story of Oweny is inspired by “Shadow of Tinted Soul” by Judith Adong.