Kurt Orderson from Mitchell’s Plein, Cape Town is directing the movie, Not In My Neighbourhood about gentrification from Sao Paulo to Brooklyn to Woodstock in Cape Town. By doing this, he is creating and helping to spark mad awareness among the communities from the slums to the hills just depends on what we as the People are going to do about it. For starters, let’s support this movie that needs to be completed. See more details below about the crowdfunding campaign for the finalizing of this important project. Also see some images and words of the process of shooting some of the last stages of the film in Sao Paulo. Next the crew is moving onto New York to capture the elections
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Not in My Neighbourhood Crowdfunding Video from Azania Rizing Productions on Vimeo.
(Above)”Filming with Pichacao artist, GG, late at night on the streets of São Paulo. Pichacao is a form of graffiti popular in the inner cities of Brazil. These Pichadores have witnessed the changing landscape of the city and use their graffiti as a means to claim back spaces.” – Not In My Neighbourhood crew
(Above)”Scenes from Prestes Maia, one of the largest occupied high rise buildings in Brazil. This building and the residents within it are one of the main focuses of filming while we’ve been here. Photo by Alessandro Vecchi. Find out how you can contribute and help us here”:indigogo/nimndocumentary
Not In My Neighbourhood on FaceBook
GroundUp article on the phenomenon of displacement in Salt River and Woodstock
Grant Jurius 