The Uganda/South Africa film production collective, ’Yes! That’s Us’ is perfecting the art of collaborative-guerrilla film making. Donald Mugisha and James Tayler the primary members of the group are proving that the African idiom “two heads are better than one” still holds true. The two recently completed their second guerrilla feature film, ‘Yogera: Silence Speaks’, shot in the backstreets of Kampala, Uganda. The collaborative effort in Yogera’s production cannot be understated. The pair thought up the story, found the cast and crew and did the filming. Because of this the director is credited as ‘Yes! That’s Us’ with the names of Tayler and Mugisha appearing on the producers, editors, writers and photography credits. Yogera recently got a screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Goteborg International Film Festival.
The film is tale of a deaf mute (Hope) who runs away from the countryside to live in the big city with her twin sister, who is not ready for the responsibility of a deaf mute the modern city. After a fight with her sister, Hope disappears and wanders around the city experiencing the challenges and cruelty that Kampala holds for a person like her.
