Alive in Joburg

Short film directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9 prequel).


In 1990, Johannesburg is home to a number of extraterrestrial refugees, whose large spaceships (estimated to be nearly one kilometer in length) can be seen hovering above the city. When the visitors arrived, the human population was enamored with, among other aspects, the aliens' advanced "bio-suits", and supposedly welcomed them with open arms. However, later, the aliens began moving into other areas of the city, committing crimes in order to survive, and frequently clashing with the police. Playing as a documentary, the film continues, complete with interviews and footage taken from handheld cameras, highlighting the growing tension between the civilian population and the visitors, especially once the ships began to steal electricity and other resources from the city.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• distric 9
• prequel
• origin
• halo
• alive
• in
• joburg
• joberg
• jo'burg
• jo'berg
• alien
• mockumentary
• spyfilms
• ghetto
• apartheid
• short
• movie
• ufo
• johannesburg
• neill
• blomkamp

[jadooindia]

The budget and the success of D9 should serve as a wake up call to directors like michael bay and george lucas.

This proves that budget needn't be restraint for 'cgi creativity'.

[kajeshomat]

3:21 same guy that plays Wikkus in the film?

[roloug95]

@kajeshomat yeah sharlto copley, top actor

[bk360]

Fookin' Squids man.

[0utlaw7hugz]

@kajeshomat thats marmaduke the a team

[17thSHIT]

@jadooindia You have to remember that District 9 was filmed in abandoned places. The camera's were low budget and they only used one cgi actor during the whole process. But nevertheless it is a good movie.

[1ukjunglednbraver]

district 9 is a great film..they should have alot more films with south african people in the accent rocks

[darthkarr]

WILK!

[BlackAndWhite9999]

@fredannett Not even one Academy Award - four! One of those being "Best Picture". Think about what an honor it is - your first feature film, out of all the hundreds of films created in 2009, could possibly be named the best film of the year.

[fredannett]

The Little CJ character is some amazing CGI. This a great short. No wonder D9 was a great film.. Can you imagine your very first feature gets nominated for an Academy Award ?

[ComingWithStyle]

I like how the bio suits are armed with the gravity gun from Half life 2

[BAXTSPRCHRGD]

@DesiBaavo69 Neil Blomkamp, him and Peter Jackson were to work on the Halo movie together but after that fell apart they still wanted to work with each other and decided to expand this short film into a full length movie to fufil that want