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Alive in Joburg — the short film about extra-terrestrials landing in early-90's South Africa. Vaguely Haloesque, it landed Neill Blomkamp his job as the director of the upcoming Halo feature film, based upon the video game adventures superhuman cyborg fighting for the survival of humanity on the inner curvature of a galaxy-destroying ringworld.
Got to admit, my sympathies lie with Alternate Universe Apartheid on this one. When trashy UFOs hover over Joburg and insert their cybernetic protuberances into nuclear power facilities to steal electricity, I start thinking "freeloader." And if aliens ever were to land, I'm not exactly sure why we should immediately put them all on welfare, which seems to be where the director's sympathies lie.
I kid, I kid. An excellent, thought-provoking film; as an amateur effort, it bodes well for giving this man a budget and gaming's best space opera.
