• South African documentary filmmaker talks gentrification in JoBurg

    South African documentary filmmaker, Arya Laloo, talks about gentrification in her Johannesburg district, Jeppestown. Laloo is co-director of the 2013 film Jeppe on a Friday. Named one of the best African films of 2013 by the U.K. Guardian newspaper.


  • A portrait of gentrification in Johannesburg

    The mean streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, put fear into the hearts of the most hardened. But a Canadian documentary filmmaker brushes off how she was once carjacked at gunpoint as if it were like being stuck in traffic on the Ville-Marie Expressway. Shannon Walsh, director of H2Oil, is screening her latest project at the…


  • Jeppe on a Friday – a #radio doc about a #film doc in #SouthAfrica

    Synopsis: Jeppe on a Friday is a 2013 South African documentary film about gentrification in Jeppestown, a low-income district in Johannesburg in the midst of re-development. This radio documentary examines the collaborative process used by Canadian filmmaker Shannon Walsh in cinema verité and how the film is helping build a community of documentary filmmakers in South…


  • The Rainbow Nation – South Africa

    After spending the entire month of February in South Africa, I think I should take a moment to reflect on my time in this fascinating country. I find South Africa quite a contradiction. How a nation can laud its achievements in multiculturalism and pluralism, while deep divisions in society, and between races, remain. A friend…


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