Upon a film's completion, the actors sell DVD copies door-to-door in a one-week time window to ensure they make money before the film is bootlegged. Nabwana had previously used cow blood, but was forced to discontinue its use after one of his actors developed brucellosis. Squibs and theatrical blood, used to simulate bloody gunshots, are made from condoms filled with red food coloring and tied to fishing lines before being taped to the actors' chests.
Nabwana shoots and edits his films using old computers that he assembles.
Among the studio's props is a full sized helicopter frame that has become a staple in all Wakaliwood films.
The studio makes props and jibs out of DIY parts, which commentators have compared to the early days of Hollywood. He was also given a starring role in Nabwana's 2016 film Bad Black and has been called "the first Mzungu Ugandan action movie star." After meeting Nabwana and producing a documentary on Ramon Film Productions, Hofmanis has since moved to Uganda to help promote Wakaliwood cinema worldwide. Īlan Hofmanis, a film festival director based in New York City, traveled to Uganda after a friend who worked at an NGO showed him a trailer for Who Killed Captain Alex? on YouTube. In 2005, after taking a computer course on video editing and watching video tutorials on filmmaking, Nabwana founded Ramon Film Productions, naming it after his grandmothers, Rachael and Monica. As he had never been in a theatre, he relied mostly on his brothers and friends' descriptions of films that were just released theatrically. His inspirations for filmmaking came from reruns of Hawaii Five-O and Logan's Run, as well as his love of Hollywood action movies and martial arts films from his childhood. While the rest of Uganda was stricken with violence and ethnic cleansing, the farmland that Nabwana's grandfather owned was relatively peaceful. Isaac Nabwana spent his childhood during the brutal regime of Idi Amin in the 1970s.
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