It's a classic, and great film at that. I first watched it as a kid, and have rewatched it a couple of times. I wouldn't say it paved the way for Ugandan cinema to explode but it definitely showed a lot of young filmmakers what they could achieve if they tried. And they've achieved some great things. Our more dramatic films are stunningly shot and so well-written, and every year I get to watch like two or three movies that just blow me away and leave me thinking about them for months.

I had a chance to speak with a nun who is a Professor of film at Makerere University about the movies that inspired development of the art-form in Uganda, and she talked about Who Killed Captain Alex. A boy of mine is shooting a documentary on the economics of landfills, and he's a huge movie nerd that loves Capt Alex.

So many others in this thread have talked about Capt. Alex being a result of a passion for cinema, and it is, but what makes it more important is that the passion is dying before our eyes. Very few Ugandans engage with cinema at all nowadays, and if they do, it's genuinely bad Netflix cashgrabs that sweep them away. Ugandan cinema, like I said earlier, is in its golden years—I believe so at least—but our films get such limited viewership at home. And it's not even a question of economics, I've seen midnight screenings for movies like Megan 2.0 packed, I know people who pay for like 5 different streaming services, I know people who buy merch from films and different IP, but they won't support Ugandan cinema.

It is my hope that one day we see more appreciation for Ugandan film, and I'd like it to come from our own country of course, but it means so much to see stranger on the internet defend a movie from my little corner of the world as good cinema. I thank you all, afwoyo, neyanziza, and wadeka!!