Alive in Joburg (2005)
Directed by Neill Blomkamp
A documentary-style short film about the arrival of an alien spaceship over Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Alive in Joburg is a clever composite of fake news footage and man-on-the-street interviews that manages to inspire a startling pathos for the downtrodden aliens.
Backed by Lord of the Rings producer-director Peter Jackson, Neill Blomkamp, a South African director of TV commercials, adapted his short Alive in Joburg.
What started out as a six-minute short, 2005's "Alive in Joburg," has been turned into a fantastic 112-minute science fiction feature will a little help (to the tune of some $30 million) from "Lord of the Rings" helmer Peter Jackson.
Producer Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings") champions first time feature director Neill Blomkamp, expanding upon his short "Alive in Joburg," and it is an impressive debut.
This film might have felt groundbreaking if Blomkamp hadn't already started to tell the story (and done a better job of it) with "Alive in Joburg."
A computer animator and director of short films, Blomkamp previously developed the idea for what became District 9 in a six-minute short, Alive in Joburg ( available on YouTube ), which similarly blended pseudo-interview and cable-news clips with field footage of armed forces engaging the prawns.