Short Films - Funding, Shooting & Film Festivals with Hakim Zziwa

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This week I'm talking to filmmaker Hakim Zziwa. Hakim is from Uganda where he started out as a dancer and went onto make corporate films after a scholarship in America. He's also made several short films that have done really well on the festival circuit and have a high end high quality look to them.
I talked to Hakim about how he achieved the high end look, he gave me tips on working on a low budget and we talked about documentary filmmaking and his tips for getting the most out of film festivals.

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1. About Hakim and his career (00:00:00)

2. How Hakim got into filmmaking - from dance to screen (00:00:56)

3. Filmmaking in Uganda (00:02:01)

4. How has Hakim ended up working in America? (00:02:46)

5. Making high end short films - funding the movies (00:05:21)

6. Advice to get the high end look (00:09:26)

7. Balancing a technical role with directing and producing (00:12:43)

8. Working on documentaries (00:17:23)

9. Short films - why no feature films yet? (00:19:25)

10. Film festivals - what has Hakim learned from the festival process - getting the most from them (00:24:51)

11. Reasons to subscribe and listen (00:27:36)