And that’s no accident. Call ‘District 9’ the world’s first autobiographical alien apartheid movie. Writer-director Neill Blomkamp grew up in Johannesburg during an era of white minority ...

District 9' is a work of science fiction, and no offense was intended toward any country or person," the company said. Watch how the film reflects South Africa's former apartheid » The film was ...

Yet District 9 isn't necessarily the metaphor everyone thinks it is. Of course it's about apartheid and segregation, but to South Africans it's also about Cape Town's now-defunct District Six ...

Now, it's the recently released South African movie District 9 in which Nigerians are depicted ... a sci-fi morality tale about aliens and apartheid -- is not welcome in Nigeria because of its ...

There’s the alien apartheid District 9 (2009), working class and immigrant team-up Elysium (2013), and a look into the cyclical nature of crime in Chappie (2015). His movies create worlds that ...

Twenty years pass, during which crime and squalor soar in District 9 while humans practice a sort of alien apartheid. District 9 has a great story, action and special effects. The movie also draws ...

See Neill Blomkamp’s Six-Minute Rough Draft of District 9’Alive in Joburg,’ made in ... in a way that recalls South Africa’s notorious apartheid regime.

The director is no stranger to turning his sci-fi tales to tackle difficult themes and subtext, as his directorial debut ...

Join our forum conversation to let us know! Blomkamp wrote "District 9" based on growing up in South Africa during apartheid. It received four Academy Award nominations, including best picture and ...