Pola Maneli

Director · Social Popcorn Films

In apartheid South Africa, a forbidden friendship between two boys is tested by a life-saving act that forces them to confront the hate dividing their world. Written by Spike Lee and brought to life by a team rooted in South African culture and history, the film blends four animation techniques — traditional 2D frame-to-frame, cut-out, 3D, and 2.5D — across roughly 18,000 frames crafted by a team of more than 250 creatives.

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Speaking history

ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

19 July 2026 Los Angeles, United States “Apart”

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