The first of four children born to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Bishanga, Bish obtained his early education in Uganda. There, as a boy, he grew to love film, attending the cinema but also being exposed to many movies at home with his family on his father's home video system. He credits his parents with inspiring his film career. After his primary education, he attended
Makerere University in
Kampala, where he studied architecture, before moving to the Netherlands in 1998 and studying digital
filmmaking at the
SAE Institute in
Amsterdam. ==Career==