Hugo Perez

Once Upon a Time in Uganda

Hugo Perez, Cathryne Czubek

Nabwana I.G.G., Alan Hofmanis

In the slums of Kampala, two men from opposite sides of the world come together over a shared love for America’s greatest hero: Rambo. Against all odds, the two make their own action movies with no money — and bring joy to millions of people on the internet. Welcome to “Wakaliwood.” Through comedy and kung-fu, "Once Upon a Time in Uganda" chronicles the unlikely friendship between Isaac Nabwana, a director hailed as “Africa’s Tarantino,” and Alan Hofmanis, a film programmer from New York. While Isaac tirelessly makes feature after feature, Alan brings his films to international audiences. But tensions flare as Isaac’s star rises — threatening their partnership and all of Wakaliwood.

Betty La Flaca

Hugo Perez

Betty La Flaca follows the character of ‘skinny’ Betty, who decides she needs to enhance her figure through homegrown plastic surgery.

Seed

Hugo Perez

A science-fiction drama set in farm country, where—after a decade of famine and food riots—the Mendelian Corporation feeds (and controls) the world through its genetically modified seeds, pitting family members against one another.

Neither Memory Nor Magic

Hugo Perez

This film tells the riveting story of Miklos Radnoti, a Hungarian poet who perished in the Holocaust. Throughout his forced travels from the Bor copper mine in Serbia to a remote work camp and finally to a mass grave in a Hungarian village, Radnoti was determined to keep writing and to find a way to preserve his poems. The film is at once a love story, an examination of Radnoti’s patriotism, and a sobering view of the Hungarian holocaust. Radnoti’s startlingly original poems are read in translation and, most movingly, in Hungarian.

The Old Man and Hemingway

Hugo Perez

A portrait of 100-year-old Gregorio Fuentes, Ernest Hemingway’s boat captain in Cuba.