KONGO IS BURNING
23-25 June 2020
Cannes Docs Co-Pro Speed Meetings
Project curated by:
DOK Leipzig
KONGO IS BURNING
Directed by: Arnold Aganze
Produced by: Arnold Aganze (Digital Media Production, DRC), Ali Musoke (Stone Age Pictures, UGA)
Country of production: DRC, Uganda
Runtime: 70'
Expected release: March 2021
Budget: €200,000 (22% in place)
1st feature: 1st feature
Looking for: Co-producers, funders, sales and festivals
Synopsis:
Kongo is Burning is a contemporary and celebratory tale of fashion, disco balls and the everyday hustle told by La Duchesse and Consolée, two transgender women flourishing in Bukavu, a city in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Director’s profile:
Arnold Aganze is a multi-award winning director who was born in 1986 in Mushenyi, a small village in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Raised between fields of maize and war, he started a degree in Political Science in Bukavu, before dropping it and moving to Kampala, Uganda. In 2013, in Kampala, Aganze joined Maisha Film Lab where he directed his first short documentary film Rastasophical Mood, an introspective essay on an alternative community in Kampala. In 2015, after developing several scripts that were costly and with no access to serious producers, Aganze brought together his close network of fellow filmmakers and they went on to shoot N.G.O: Nothing Going On.