SYNOPSIS

Arthur ‘Slewboy’ Claasen is a talented, impulsive graffiti artist at the top of his game. By night, he and his crew - THE WRITERS BLOC - are staking out their claim, bombing the city with rebellious art despite Cape Town officials using specialized units to fight graffiti. When ambitious City Councilman Rodney Abrahams takes the helm of a new project to restore colonial statues in the city centre, the crew brushes it off with characteristic nonchalance. Because by day, Slewboy's hustling and basking in the acclaim and respect from the underground Hip Hop scene. But at home, in the ghetto, on the periphery of the city, he’s Arthur Claasen, an unemployed errant son to his factory worker mother and older sister Nikki. Still, he dreams of making it big and taking his family out of the hood to the other side of Table Mountain, the geographic barrier that separates the rich from the poor. That all changes when after a violent encounter with private security, Slewboy is swept into a psychological dimension parallel, ApeTown, the zoo-inspired world he creates through his art. ApeTown is an urban adventure film that seamlessly blends coming-of-age themes with elements of magical realism.