Rwandan filmmaker and musician Jacques Muligande, extensively generally known as Mighty Popo, is taking his first function movie to a global viewers after ‘Killer Music’ was chosen for the eighth Africa Movie Pageant in South Korea.
The movie is amongst 16 productions from 15 African international locations featured on the competition, which is being held throughout Busan, Seoul and Jeonju from Might 21 to June 14. Organized by the Korea-Africa Basis, the occasion showcases tales from throughout the continent and coincides with the 2026 Korea-Africa International Ministers' Assembly.
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For Rwanda's rising movie trade, the choice locations a domestically produced function alongside works from international locations with longer-established cinema sectors, together with South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya.
‘Killer Music’ premiered at Century Cinema in Kigali on Sept. 14, 2025, earlier than incomes a spot within the South Korean competition lineup. The movie is scheduled to display on Friday, June 12 throughout the Jeonju leg of the competition at Jeonju Digital Unbiased Film Cinema.
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Set in opposition to the backdrop of Rwanda's up to date music trade, the two-hour function follows 4 aspiring artistes, Sine, Mwiza, Shannon and Ira, as they compete in a high-stakes music contest.
Because the competitors performs out, a violent incident exposes deeper tensions and felony exercise, reshaping relationships among the many contestants and altering the course of their ambitions.
Produced by Sakara Manufacturing beneath the chief manufacturing of Mighty Popo and directed by Indian-Rwandan filmmaker Anirban Mitra, the mission was developed over three years and concerned greater than 250 solid and crew members.
The manufacturing additionally served as a coaching floor for rising creatives, bringing collectively college students from the Rwanda College of Artistic Arts and Music alongside skilled trade professionals.
Filming befell throughout a number of places in Rwanda.
The solid contains performers from Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya, amongst them Serah Wanjiru, Simon Kalema, Lucarelli Onyango, Felicity Mandela, Doreen Nabbanja, Pelly Nampanga, Jules Sentore, Vanessa Uwase, Patrick Mugisha and Luckman Nzeyimana.
When the movie premiered in Kigali, Mighty Popo described ‘Killer Music’ as the primary chapter of a deliberate trilogy. The mission was introduced as a part of broader efforts to strengthen Rwanda's movie ecosystem by way of domestically produced tales, abilities improvement and worldwide collaboration.
