Screening
Director Kurt Orderson has generously shared his award-winning film Not in my Neighbourhood with the Space for Creative Black Imagination. We will be screening the film online for a limited period from March 9, 2021. Click below to access the password and full-feature screening!
Director’s Talk & Discussion
Join us for an interactive session with Director Kurt Orderson. Kurt will be speaking to the process involved in making the film, his motivation for addressing questions of gentrification, and the film’s reception in the different social and political contexts in which it has shown. Insights, responses and questions are welcome!
About the film:
Gentrification has been constantly, falsely, perpetuated as a process of affirmative social renovation. However, despite these forced agendas, the controversy of displacement, conflict, and loss of affordable housing has led to one communal response: resistance.
Award-winning filmmaker Kurt Orderson offers an insightful look into the lives of those who are struggling against the atrocities of Gentrification, Urban Renewal, Architectural Apartheid and Spatial Violence. He cohesively facilitates an international dialogue by exploring the parallels of the current urban environments in three seemingly disparate cities: São Paulo, Cape Town, and New York.
Not In My Neighbourhood portrays an “on the ground” approach which evokes poignantly beautiful personal sentiments that are effortlessly juxtaposed with the courageous ability of the ordinary citizen mobilising for their right to the city.
Kurt Orderson is an award-winning filmmaker from Cape Town, South Africa. His career started after completing his film and television studies at Monash University, South Africa in 2004. His films infuse music, history, politics, and art with current geopolitical affairs, examining issues and unknown stories to create narratives in impermanent settings. He has directed eight feature documentary films shot between five continents, as well, more than 20 current affairs inserts. In 2009 he founded Azania Rizing Productions, an award-winning company consisting of a collective of filmmakers and activists who collaborate and create film and media content that facilitates unity and solidarity, forms new alliances and creates compelling content to stimulate public discourse. Not in My Neighourhood won the Audience Award at Encounters International Film Festival, Best Documentary at the HBO American Black Film Festival and Jury Award (Outstanding Film) at the African International Film Festival.