Comfort Abemigisha was our translator on the development shoot, but personally for me (Laura, director) was a bit more than that. We were together on an adventure with an extremely difficult task set: finding survivors of Akampene when nobody knew if they were alive nor where they lived. At times, most times, it felt like something really crazy to do, basically no budget, bargaining boats really hard to go up and down the lake as soon as we heard there was a small possibility. Despite storms, false witness and all kind of misadventures, we never lost hope and we generated such a huge amount of energy that at the end it really happened.
Apart from speaking Rukiga and English and generating good positive energy, Comfort is an artist who majored in photography, illustration and painting. He is 23 years old, originating from Kabale (South-Western Uganda) and living in Kampala, capital city. He will be graduating in January 2013 with a BA in Industrial and Fine Art.
Comfort mainly uses pencil for sketch and extreme mood and detail, pen and ink for motion and moment capture and oil and acrylic paints for dream, observation and individualistic recomposition in visual arts. He also loves film and he is involved in video production and post with his baby production company K Concept. He is also involved in the art project "Otariho Tagwegwa Muti Country" (When a tree falls, if you are not around, you won't be hit).
If we manage to complete the film - we have to - Comfort's involvement will carry on in his favorite and real role: he will make the series of drawings that will accompany the women's tales.
You can see some of his work on https://picasaweb.google.com/Comfort.Uganda/MyPaintings
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