Kurt Orderson’s Apetown Will Highlight South African Hip-hop Film Culture, Joins Iffr’s Cinemart Slate

Joining CineMart this year, filmmaker Kurt Orderson’s Apetown has been selected alongside a slate of 20 other projects in the co-production market, Variety reported this week. A vision of the South African director since he began writing the film in 2012, Apetown has been described as a “hard-hitting love letter to Cape Town,” the story of a “charismatic graffiti artist” amidst a “city hell-bent on reinforcing apartheid’s social caging.” The film reportedly “weav(es) together hip-hop, graffiti, segregation and camaraderie” into a magical realist tale of an artist who manages the violence of his environment from within the “parallel universe he creates through his art.”