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KONY ORDER FROM ABOVE

War children (Otti and Aguti) fall in love during the tumultuous
Northern Uganda Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency,
but are separated when Otti is abducted at the age of 11.
While in abduction, he tries to escape back home in vain and
gets battered with each futile attempt. So he decides to stay
in the bush with the LRA rebels and is soon introduced into
the inner command circle of notorious LRA rebel leader
Joseph Kony. Despite his concession to notoriety, his love for
Aguti remains undeterred. In an attempt to sustain it, Otti
write letters to Aguti – who is then attending school at Aboke
Girl's school – through the village reverend. Soon enough, the
LRA leadership gets wind of the communication and the
ruthless captain Brown (high commander of the LRA) decides
to attack the village, abducting everyone in it. The rebels also
attack Aboke Girls School where Aguti is abducted too. Upon
arrival at the rebel camp, the abductees are shown to Kony
whose interest falls upon Aguti instantly, ignorant of the
relationship between her and Otti. He then forcefully takes
her as a wife and she becomes his youngest woman. However,
being in the inner circle gets her close to Otti who is
coincidentally Kony's favorite and most trusted soldier. Otti is
then tasked with the security of Kony’s latest wife Aguti – torn
between loyalty to the rebel cause and his love for her.

  • AYENY THOMPSON STEVE
    Director
  • AYENY THOMPSON STEVE
    Writer
  • KOSE SANDRA
    Writer
  • ATONGA MEDIA/ ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
    Producer
  • AYENY THOMPSON STEVE
    Producer
  • AKELLO ELIZABETH
    Key Cast
    "AGUTI"
  • AYENY THOMPSOM STEVE
    Key Cast
    "OTTI"
  • CAN PAPO EBIL
    Key Cast
    "KONY"
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 44 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 1, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Uganda
  • Country of Filming:
    Uganda
  • Language:
    English, Swahili
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • ZANZIBAR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

    Tanzania, United Republic of
    ZANZIBAR
    BEST EAST AFRICAN TALENT AWARD
  • AMAKULA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    KAMPALA
    Uganda
    BEST UGANDA FEATURE FILM
  • PEARL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    KAMPALA
    Uganda
    BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ACTOR, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN, BEST MAKE UP
  • THE ACADEMY, OSCARS
    CARLIFORNIA
    United States
    BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, UGANDA
  • The African Film Festival

    United States
Distribution Information
  • Trace Studios
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - AYENY THOMPSON STEVE

Ayeny T. Steve born as Ayeny Thompson Steven is a Ugandan filmmaker with a photographic eye towards film making and life majoring in producing, writing and Directing. He also possesses other skills in photography, cinematography, Film editing, Acting and singing, among others. He is also a film making mentored a number of upcoming and already established film makers and actors in Uganda.
In 2007 he formerly initiated Atonga Media foundation and registered it in 2009 as Atonga Entertainment, and has been a multifaceted full-service entertainment and media production company based in Kampala, Uganda that specializes in producing audio-visual content in various dimensions for Film, TV, Online and other platforms as well as using film to rehabilitate and promote talent development.
He is the Best Film Director award winner of Pearl International Film Festival 2016 for his film “The Ring” and a Best Film Director, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Feature Film, Best Actor, Best Production Design, Best Costume Make up, during the Pearl International Film Festival 2018.
He is also award winner of Riverwood Academy Awards 2015 in the category of Best East African Feature Film.
He has also won various awards at Amakula International Film Festival, Zanzibar International Film Festival, and many other recognitions.

Born and raised in Lira, Uganda, April, 26th,1985, he began his career as a musician, and graduated to acting, screenwriting, producing and directing starting the yeas 2007 till to date.
He has worked with several companies both local and international like BBC, USAID as a screenwriter, producer, director, film consultant, production assistant, sound recordist, cinematographer, editor and more as his work has been aired on BBC, Aljazeera, Africa Magic, Chanel4 London, NTV Uganda among others
With great passion for film making, he was introduced to the film-making world when he joined the Production Uganda Television Institute which sky rocket his career as he acquired more knowledge about the art.
During the year 2009, he filed and directed Cassava dream, a documentary about a peasant lady who built a school in Northern Uganda during the war using the finance she acquired from the sale of her cassava. The documentary got the world’s attention and donors came in to support the school with whatever they could offer.
During the years of 2009 to 2013, he worked with British Broadcasting Corporation where he did a number of documentaries like “BBC Panorama (Hunt for LRA Kony)” focusing on stories of war in Northern Uganda and the hunt for LRA leader Joseph Kony where he was Research Assistant, “BBC Three (World’s worst place to be gay)” a documentary where he worked as cinematographer, fixer and research Assistant which told the stories of how gay people were treated in Uganda. Some of his other work with BBC include “INSIGHT NEWTV London (The African Taboo)”, and “BBC Current Affairs (Child Sacrifice in Uganda)”
By 2010, he had started exploring further into film making producing short films like Mocking Bird; a film about orphans crying for help, Can I; a film which portrays the intelligence of the deaf people and My Land; which depicted the cry of women in Africa who are looked at as minority and voiceless.
By late 2010, he embarked onto feature film projects as a writer, actor, producer and director of the feature film titled "Webye (Politics)" which happened to be his first feature directorial debut that was supported by European Union.
Early 2013, he acted and directed the award winning movie “Plan B”, a feature film where he portrayed the life of a boy from humble background who was sent to a good school to empower him and support the family but things didn’t turn out as expected. The movie won……
By 2016, he acted and directed in the feature film “The Ring”, an educative movie which was about the spread of HIV and sexual network in family
In the year 2018, he was featured in a biopic feature film “27 guns" a movie portraying the liberation war of National Resistance Army and their leader the current president of Uganda H.E Yuweri Kaguta Museveni where he acted as “General Oketa”
And in 2018, he released a feature film “Kony: Order from Above”, a movie he produced and directed and acted as “Otti”. The movie told Kony’s story from a different angle of Love.
Currently he is working on a movie project “Sugar Coated” yet to be released

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Until the Lion Starts Telling Its Own Story, The Hunter Shall always be Glorified