‘The Survival’ tells a story of culture and laws in Uganda and the roles they play after a
young woman gets pregnant out of wedlock by a homosexual man.

Achiro Patricia Olwoch hails from Gulu, in Northern Uganda. Achiro is currently living at Westbeth as part of its Artist at Risk program.

Info on Westbeth’s Artist at Risk program.

She is an award-winning writer, director and producer after winning numerous awards and nominations for her Coffee Shop TV series as creator and writer and Yat Madit as head writer, and for her short films: ‘The Surrogate’, ‘The Mineral Basket’, ‘Maraya Ni’.

She is currently working on a feature documentary, ‘My Prison Diary’, due for release in 2023 and she has three feature scripts in development. She is also in the process of completing her late father’s manuscripts, which he left behind after his death in 1994. This is alongside her first novel ‘Sex or Slave’, set in 1940s Uganda during colonialism. She also has in the works a memoir about her life as a lesbian in Uganda and her eventual escape.

Twitter: @achirop
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website: www.achiropolwoch.com