{"id":17328,"date":"2025-07-23T06:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17328\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T06:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:23:14","slug":"ntare-guma-mbaho-mwine-on-documentary-memories-of-love-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17328\/","title":{"rendered":"Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine On Documentary \u2018Memories Of Love Returned’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmerican-born Ugandan actor Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine<\/a> is starring in the new Showtime\/Paramount+ series\u00a0Dexter: Resurrection\u00a0in the role of Blessing Kamara. But he\u2019s blessing audiences with more than just his acting work. The multi-hyphenate \u2014 actor, writer, filmmaker, playwright \u2013 also has an exceptional documentary on the festival circuit,\u00a0Memories of Love Returned<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the new episode of Deadline\u2019s Doc Talk<\/a> podcast, Mwine explains the film came about purely by chance. He was driving in rural Uganda in the early 2000s when his vehicle broke down. As the car was being repaired in the small town of Mbirizi, he looked around and discovered a small photography studio operated by Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo, \u201cthe sole photographer for hundreds of miles\u201d around, Mwine recalls. The film, winner of awards at festivals across the world, documents Mwine\u2019s effort to make the first public exhibition of the photographer\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

\n\tSsalongo made portraits of people from all walks of life, photographing them at home, at weddings or other occasions in ways vastly different from the ethnographic image-making that makes an object of study out of many Africans. Here, people are rendered with an intimacy and simplicity \u2013 straight couples, apparently gay couples, old and young.<\/p>\n

\n\tMwine says it was the earnings he received from co-starring on\u00a0The Chi\u00a0that allowed him to fulfill his mission to make Ssalongo\u2019s work more widely known. He also tells us how support from executive producer Steven Soderbergh helped bring the project to life. And he explains how delving into Ssalongo\u2019s complicated personal life risked turning the documentary into\u00a0The Real Housewives of Mbirizi.<\/p>\n

\n\tDoc Talk co-hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey call\u00a0Memories of Love Returned\u00a0one of the best documentaries of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore getting into the interview with Mwine, we start this week\u2019s episode with a discussion of the Emmy nominations<\/a>, which brought recognition to celebrity-themed documentaries like\u00a0Will & Harper,\u00a0Pee-wee as Himself and\u00a0Super\/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story<\/a>, a genre of nonfiction film that, by contrast, hasn\u2019t earned a lot of favor with voters from the Motion Picture Academy\u2019s documentary branch.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s on the new edition of Doc Talk, hosted by Oscar winner Ridley (12 Years a Slave,\u00a0Shirley) and Carey, Deadline\u2019s documentary editor. The pod is a production of Deadline and Ridley\u2019s N\u014d Studios.<\/p>\n

\n\tListen to the episode above or on major podcast platforms including\u00a0Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0iHeart<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American-born Ugandan actor Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine is starring in the new Showtime\/Paramount+ series\u00a0Dexter: Resurrection\u00a0in the role of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,15063,15064,15065,15066,75,15067,337,15068],"class_list":["post-17328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-doc-talk","tag-doc-talk-podcast","tag-emmy-awards","tag-emmys","tag-entertainment","tag-memories-of-love-returned","tag-movies","tag-ntare-guma-mbaho-mwine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}