Biography
Moses Bwayo is a Peabody and International Documentary Association (IDA) award-winning filmmaker in Los Angeles. His documentary "Bobi Wine: The People's President" (2023) was nominated for best documentary feature at the 96th Academy Awards, Director's Guild Association (DGA), and The British Academy of Television Arts (BAFTA). Born in the village town of Bududa on the slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda, Moses was introduced to filmmaking by peeking through cracks in the walls of local "kibandas," bootleg movie theaters housed in wooden shacks where Moses immediately fell in love with cinema. In 2016, Moses started his production company in Kampala, Jajja Productions LTD, overseeing production and post-production services on various commercial, documentary, and feature films. Moses' reputation as a courageous verité cinematographer and local fixer began to grow, shooting for ABC, BBC, and VICE News for their Uganda-based productions. In late 2017, he started work on the feature documentary "Bobi Wine: The People's President." Which he co-directed with Christopher Sharp; Moses spent five harrowing years following Bobi Wine, a pop star turned politician who ran for president, opposing Yoweri Museveni, a dictator who has been in power since 1986. During the production, Moses was arrested, imprisoned, and shot in the face at close range while filming. With mounting threats to him and his family for making the film, Moses fled Uganda to the United States. "Bobi Wine: The People's President" premiered to a 10-minute standing ovation at the 2022 Venice Film Festival in September 2022. Moses recently executive-produced the documentary film "Nsenene" (2023), which follows a group of grasshopper trappers in Uganda on their quest to earn a living by trapping grasshoppers. He was also a consulting producer on HBO's limited series "Savior Complex" (2023), a true crime story about Renee Bach, an American missionary who is alleged to have performed medical procedures on children, leading to the deaths of over 100 infants in Eastern Uganda. Moses is developing a slate of projects with the human experience at the center of the storytelling. He holds an undergraduate honors degree in mass communication from Kampala University and a postgraduate in film and television production from Kampala Film School, the nation's television conservatory.
