Neill Blomkamp

Neill Blomkamp (born 17 September 1979) is a South African-Canadian film and advertisement writer and director currently based in Vancouver, Canada. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects. He is best known as the co-writer and director of critically acclaimed District 9, his only feature film to date. Time named Blomkamp as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2009.


Neill Blomkamp (born 17 September 1979) is a South African-Canadian film and advertisement writer and director currently based in Vancouver, Canada. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects. He is best known as the co-writer and director of critically acclaimed District 9, his only feature film to date.

Time named Blomkamp as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2009.

Filmography

Chappie (2015)

Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child,...

Elysium (2013)

In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the...

District 9 (2009)

In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed "The Prawns," appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa....