Kurt Orderson to Bring South African Hip-Hop Culture to the Screen With ‘Apetown’

South African filmmaker Kurt Orderson’s “Apetown,” one of 20 projects selected for this year’s CineMart, the co-production market at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, describes it as a “hard-hitting love letter to Cape Town.” The film is a South African urban story “weaving together hip-hop, graffiti, segregation and camaraderie,” told through the eyes of “a charismatic graffiti artist” and his “allies at war with a city hell-bent on reinforcing apartheid’s social caging,” he says. After a violent encounter with private security, a rebellious graffiti artist is swept into a parallel universe he creates through his art. The altered state heightens… Read Full Article