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Title: Tropical Fish

Written by: Samuel Tebandeke

Type: Feature Film

Genre: Drama

Logline: One story, one epic tale of three sisters growing up against the backdrop of a young nation of Uganda.

Synopsis: The film is a coming of age story based on the novel by Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning author Doreen Baingana that revolves around the lives of a family based in Entebbe Uganda. It follows Christine, Patti and Rosa the daughters of a relatively well off family whose father, a senior government official, becomes an alcoholic and loses everything starting with his job. Through it all, the mother has to support her family on her own. It follows the lives of the three sisters. It touches religious influence in Africa, boarding school life in missionary schools, first love, superstition, inevitably AIDS, love across the colour with a sugar daddy syndrome, the sense of alienation that comes with…