Ugandan playwright and filmmaker Judith Adong wins award

The awards are organised by the Prince Claus Fund based in the Netherlands, and honour visionary individuals and organisations for groundbreaking work in fields of culture and development.

Adong’s work raises public debate on contentious issues to provoke positive change.

“At the age of 13 after watching Consequences, I bacame obsessed with becoming a filmmaker because seeing Africans on the big screen was magical.

Judith Adong, says she was inspired by the 1991 Zimbabwean film Consequences, directed by John Riber.

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