CITIZEN X
CITIZEN X offers an unflinching portrayal of civil unrest in post-apartheid South Africa, examining the escalating protests fueled by broken promises of liberation and deepening poverty, focusing on community leaders in Alexandra, Soweto, and Khutsong to question the persistence of inequality in the most unequal society worldwide.
DATE
2010
DIRECTOR
Arya Lalloo
PRODUCER
Rehad Desai
PRODUCTION
Atlantic Philanthropies
FATHER INSIDE
CITIZEN X offers an unflinching portrayal of civil unrest in post-apartheid South Africa, examining the escalating protests fueled by broken promises of liberation and deepening poverty, focusing on community leaders in Alexandra, Soweto, and Khutsong to question the persistence of inequality in the most unequal society worldwide.
DATE
2010
DIRECTOR
Arya Lalloo
PRODUCER
Rehad Desai
PRODUCTION
Atlantic Philanthropies
HEART OF WHITENESS
A personal journey, in the form of a road movie, that shows how South Africa’s segregated past lives on in the social geography of the present. Black filmmaker Rehad Desai seeks out what lies at the core of white identity, from the English middle class of Johannesburg’s suburbs, to the Afrikaners of the towns that belonged to the former Transvaal, to their last outpost in Orania, a self-proclaimed homeland of small group of Afrikaners.
DATE
2010
DIRECTOR
Arya Lalloo
PRODUCER
Rehad Desai
PRODUCTION
Atlantic Philanthropies
ROCKEY STREET TO RECOVERY
This film charts the life of Melanie Ferguson as she plummeted into heroin addiction and how she came out the other side to become a leading writer and author.
DATE – 2010
DIRECTOR – Arya Lalloo
PRODUCER – Rehad Desai
PRODUCTION – Atlantic Philanthropies
DILEMMA
A personal documentary that looks at the prospect of the director’s six-year old son relocating to Austria following the rise of the far right in Austria, and traces the harrowing story of an asylum seeker.
DATE
2010
DIRECTOR
Arya Lalloo
PRODUCER
Rehad Desai
PRODUCTION
Atlantic Philanthropies
MY LAND, MY LIFE
This is a journey into the heart of Zimbabwean crisis seen through the eyes of the filmmaker, who once lived in Zimbabwe and held Mugabe in esteem. As he returns to make sense of the conflict he is led into a strife-torn farming area. Through three central characters that include a farmer, a farm worker and a war veteran, we enter the social texture of present-day drama that defines rural and urban Zimbabwe. The conflict between farm worker and settlers is explored as is the conflict between farmer and farm worker. This nuanced piece is frank in its pro-equality stance and candid but poetic in the critique of those who claim to represent the interests of peasants and workers on both sides.
DATE
2010
DIRECTOR
Arya Lalloo
PRODUCER
Rehad Desai
PRODUCTION
Atlantic Philanthropies
CARLOS CARDOSO
A portrait of the controversial left-wing journalist from Mozambique, who was slain for his investigative and campaigning work.
DATE
2010
DIRECTOR
Arya Lalloo
PRODUCER
Rehad Desai
PRODUCTION
Atlantic Philanthropies
