Angella Emurwon

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Angella Emurwon is a Ugandan playwright.{{Cite web|title=Angella Emurwon|url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18205099|website=www.wikidata.org|language=en|access-date=30 May 2020}} She is also a filmmaker, stage director, and a writing mentor. She graduated from the 2011 Maisha Screenwriting Lab and has since become a mentor, teaching screenwriting across various countries, including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Germany, and Ghana. Since 2014, she has been part of the Maisha Film Lab Mentor Team.{{Cite web |title=Maisha Film Lab {{!}} Angella Emurwon |url=https://maishafilmlab.org/maisha-mentor/angella-emurwon/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |language=en-US}}

Angella Emurwon's first short film, Sunday (2018),{{Cite web |title=Maisha Film Lab {{!}} Angella Emuron |url=https://maishafilmlab.org/maisha-alumni/angella-emuron/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |language=en-US}} received multiple accolades. It won Best East African Short Film at the 2019 Mashariki African Film Festival in Rwanda, Best National Short at the 2019 Gulu International Film Festival in Uganda, and 2nd prize in the Films by Women category at the Ndiva Women’s Film Festival in Ghana. The film was also selected for several prestigious festivals, including the Durban Film Festival, Silicon Valley African Film Festival, and Ngalabi Short Film Festival.

She won the 2012 International Playwriting Competition first prize in the English as a Second Language category for her play Sunflowers Behind A Dirty Fence,[https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/int-playwriting-competition,International Playwriting Competition 2012 - winners announced]{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2014.[http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23863&Itemid=114,Ugandan wins BBC global prize] observer.ug. Retrieved 16 June 2014.[https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/Radio-drama-earns-Ugandan-playwright-global-literary-prize-/-/434746/1745536/-/vm5uu/-/index.html,Radio drama earns Ugandan playwright global literary prize] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717054218/https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/Radio-drama-earns-Ugandan-playwright-global-literary-prize-/-/434746/1745536/-/vm5uu/-/index.html,Radio |date=2019-07-17 }}, theeastafrican.co.ke. Retrieved 17 June 2014. in the 23rd International Playwriting Competition held by the BBC World Service and the British Council, in partnership with Commonwealth Writers.[http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/Ugandan-wins-playwriting-competition/-/691232/1695056/-/kuewde/-/index.html,Ugandan wins playwriting competition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717060444/https://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/Ugandan-wins-playwriting-competition/-/691232/1695056/-/kuewde/-/index.html,Ugandan |date=2019-07-17 }}, monitor.co.ug. Retrieved 16 June 2014.[https://archive.today/20140616091455/http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/international-radio-playwriting-competition-winner-angella-emurwon/,International Radio Playwriting Competition Winner – Angella Emurwon] commonwealthwriters.org. Retrieved 16 June 2014. Her play The Cow Needs A Wife[http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/-/691232/1174180/-/pb04jz/-/index.html,Why would a cow need a wife?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717054932/https://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/-/691232/1174180/-/pb04jz/-/index.html,Why |date=2019-07-17 }} monitor.co.ug. Retrieved 17 June 2014. came third in the 2010 BBC African Performance Play Writing Competition. Bamuturaki Musinguzi, [https://archive.today/20140616090439/http://artmatters.info/theatre/2011/01/ugandans-dominate-bbc-african-performance-play-writing-competition-2010/ "Ugandans Dominate BBC African Performance Play Writing Competition 2010"], artmatters.info, 12 January 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2014.