Cinema struggles to tell stories that reflect a contemporary Africa and remains hamstrung by self-serving voices
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/ 5 February 2010
In Proudly South African fashion, we note two Oscar nominations for films related to South Africa, <em>District 9</em> and <em>Invictus</em>.
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/ 2 February 2010
South African blockbuster <i>District 9</i> has been nominated in the Best Motion Picture category at this year’s Oscars.
It’s often easy for South Africans to imagine they live in an alternative reality. Maybe that’s why <i>District 9</i> works so well.
A sci-fi blockbuster that’s also an allegory of apartheid? <i>District 9</i> is the biggest of a glut of films about South Africa’s traumatic past.
The marketing campaign for the sci-fi movie <i>District 9</i>, set in South Africa and opening here, was planned before the movie was even filmed.
If you follow all the rules, as <i>District 9</i> did, topping the box office is not necessarily a surprise.
District 9, a gritty, low-budget space alien movie set in South Africa with a cast of unknowns, has opened as Hollywood’s number one film.