Alive in Joburg

Alive in Joburg is a 2006 science fiction short film directed by Neill Blomkamp, produced by Simon Hansen, Sharlto Copley and Carlo Trulli as Executive Producer of Spy Films in Canada. It runs approximately six minutes long and was filmed in Johannesburg, South Africa with soundtrack featuring composer sound designer Drazen Bosnjaks Harmonic Code. The film explores themes of apartheid and is noted for its visual effects as well as its documentarystyle imagery. Blomkamps 2009 feature film District 9, starring Copley, expands themes and elements from this short film.

According to individuals interviewed in the film, the aliens were captive labor slaves or indentured servants, forced to live in conditions that were not good and had escaped to Earth. Because the film takes place in 1990, while apartheid was still in effect in South Africa, the aliens were forced to live amongst the alreadyoppressed black population, causing conflict with them as well as the nonwhite and white populations.All of the interview statements which do not explicitly mention extraterrestrials were taken from authentic interviews with many South Africans who had been asked their opinions of Zimbabwean refugees. ........

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