Arya Lalloo

Born in 1980 in South Africa, Arya Lalloo is an independent filmmaker and screenwriter. Her film Citizen X (2010) explores social movement responses against xenophobic violence in suburban areas. Arya is broadly interested in social histories in post-apartheid South Africa and beyond. Much of her work is driven by a need to identify and provoke popular misperceptions and misrepresentations of contemporary urban African experience, by exploring, reimagining and celebrating often - invisible identities and histories. More recent work includes writing and directing on Alexandra! My Alexandra (2012), a historical documentary series about the famous township of the same name, and the feature documentary Jeppe on a Friday (co-directed with Shannon Walsh, 2012) that paints an intimate and sensory portrait of life in Jeppestown, a regenerating Johannesburg neighborhood.