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Create your guild
Start a team and invite filmmakers, actors and technicians.
Create a GuildUnga Festival
Guilds, submissions and a shared screen.
Follow the festival cycle, review the rules, form a guild and prepare a two-minute short film for Uganda.
applications openUganda · Independent short film festival
Unga Festival
Form a guild. Create a 2-minute film. Shape Uganda's next screen stories.
Build a multidisciplinary guild, respond to one imposed theme and create an original short film during a six-month festival cycle.
Festival Overview
One theme. Six months. One shared screen.
An independent Ugandan short film festival built around guild-based collaboration, practical production and public presentation.
Format
2-minute short film
Creative brief
One imposed theme
Cycle
6 months
Finale
Screening in Uganda
Festival training path
Build your guild before submission.
Use Unga Learn to strengthen film history, analysis, production planning and collaborative language before your guild enters the submission timeline.
Guild System
Build the crew your story needs.
Guilds can arrive as established teams, form directly on Unga or open selected positions to the wider professional network.
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Join a guild
Find open teams looking for your skills.
View Open Guilds03
Recruit members
Search directors, writers, actors, editors, sound crew and more.
Find MembersOpen Guilds
Find your place in the production.
Prototype guild data showing how teams can publish open roles and receive applications.
Open to applications
Guild 01 · Kampala
Kampala Frame Guild
5 membersLooking for editor
Apply to Guild Recruiting
Guild 02 · Wakaliga
Wakaliga Action Circle
7 membersLooking for sound designer
Apply to Guild Open to applications
Guild 03 · Entebbe
Entebbe Sound & Screen
4 membersLooking for actor
Apply to Guild Recruiting
Guild 04 · Jinja
Jinja New Wave
6 membersLooking for cinematographer
Apply to Guild Eligible Roles
Every craft has a place in the guild.
Festival teams are designed to connect creative, technical and production disciplines.
01Director
02Screenwriter
03Actor
04Producer
05Cinematographer
06Camera Operator
07Editor
08Sound Recordist
09Boom Operator
10Sound Designer
11Composer
12Production Manager
13Art Director
14Costume Designer
15Makeup Artist
16Gaffer
17Lighting Technician
18VFX Artist
19Colorist
20Location Manager
Festival Timeline
Follow the six-month quest.
Each stage moves guilds from formation to production, selection and a public Ugandan screening.
- 1
Festival announcement
- 2
Guild formation
- 3
Theme reveal
- 4
Production period
- 5
Submission deadline
- 6
Selection
- 7
Screening
- 8
Winner announcement
Approximate full cycle: 6 months
Selection & Screening
Eight guilds reach the screen.
Selected teams are invited to present their work, discuss their process and meet audiences in Uganda.
8 selected guilds
Public screening in a suitable Ugandan venue
Teams present and defend their films
The winning film may screen before a film premiere in Uganda
Participation Rules
Create boldly. Work professionally.
The first rules establish a fair, rights-aware and collaborative production environment.
Film must be 2 minutes maximum
Original work only
Theme must be respected
Guild members must be credited
Music, image and location rights must be cleared
English subtitles recommended
Respectful and professional conduct required
Begin the Production
Assemble your guild and prepare for the theme reveal.
Create a team, recruit the skills you need or submit your profile to an open guild.