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Movie Furnace

Uganda-based non-profit short film competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ17108352 ↗
Source-derived summary

Movie Furnace (Tanuulu) is a Uganda-based non-profit short film competition, for Mariam Ndagire Film and Performing Arts Centre alumni (MNFPAC) founded by Mariam Ndagire. The program involves film production, screenwriting, directing, cinematography, editing, sound recording and acting, The winning team headed by the director wins 1000 USD.

History

Movie Furnace was established in 2012. The first winner was Bigaruka Hakim with his movie Bloody Sunset. The second round was won by Usama Mukwaya with his film In Just Hours.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Movie Furnace” is uganda-based non-profit short film competition. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Movie, Furnace and Uganda-based, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1000, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Movie, Furnace and Uganda-based is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17108352. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1000 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Movie Furnace” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.