This six-minute 2005 short, "Alive in Joburg," by South African director Neill Blomkamp, forms the basis for his "District 9." Unlike the feature, it is set in 1990 under the apartheid government, during which time (in actual history) thousands of black South Africans were relocated from an area of Cape Town known as District 6 to make it an "all whites area." (The same was done in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, setting of the feature film.)
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What's your take on the movie, Jim? I was very much underwhelmed by it after seeing all the praise it had garnered.
Even though I kind of liked the movie, seeing this makes me like it less for what it could have been.