Cindy Magara
Cindy Evelyn Magara Amooti is a Ugandan film director and academic. She serves as a Lecturer of Film Studies and Literature (specializing in Children's Literature, Literary Stylistics and African Literature) at Makerere University. She has directed and produced several movies since 2006, such as Fate (2006), Fair Play (2010), Windows of Hope (2011), A Book for Every Child (2012) and Breaking the Mesh (2013). She also lectured Film Studies at University of Sydney and at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Early life and education She was born in Parajwoki Village, Bujumbura Division, Hoima City. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Film & Literature (2002-2005) and a Master in Literature (2014) from Makerere University . In 2021, she graduated with a PhD in African cinema from the University of Sydney. Career She picked interest in filmmaking while she was an undergraduate film and literature student at Makerere University in 2005. Her debut film Fate, was released in July 2006 three months after her graduation with BARS (Hons). Dubbed as Uganda's first independent female filmmaker. Fate dupped Uganda's first professional film was premiered at Hotel Africana, Kampala and was the first Ugandan film to screen at Cineplex Cinema