Neill Blomkamp

Neill Blomkamp

1979-09-17 Johannesburg, South Africa 37 Credits

Biography

Neill Blomkamp (Afrikaans: [ˈnil ˈblɔmkamp]; born 17 September 1979) is a South African and Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is known as the co-writer and director of the science fiction action film District 9 (2009), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the director of the dystopian science fiction action film Elysium(2013), which garnered moderately positive reviews. He also directed the science fiction action film Chappie (2015) and the ...

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Ash

Ash

2025

Executive Producer

5.2
Producing

A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a t...

Gran Turismo

Gran Turismo

2023

Director

7.8
Directing

The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual pr...

Switcher – Off the Grid Cinema

2022

Director

6.0
Directing

During a corporate war, mercs that works for the opposing factions engage in a brutal fight for a refugee convoy, with unpredictable consequences.

Oats Studios: Volume 1

Oats Studios: Volume 1

2021

Director

6.1
Directing

A compilation of shorts, diverse experimental content and more weird stuff spread directly from the devious mind of the South African film director Ne...

Demonic

Demonic

2021

Producer, Director, Screenplay

4.8
Producing Directing Writing

A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly reveal...

Bad President - Kenya

Bad President - Kenya

2020

Director, Producer

5.1
Directing Producing

In an alternate timeline Arizona State alumni William “Billy” Coltran was the president of the USA. Billy was in Africa catching up with some old busi...

Anthem: Conviction

Anthem: Conviction

2019

Director

6.6
Directing

An "Anthem" live-action short/trailer set decades before the beginning of the game.

God: City

God: City

2018

Director, Writer

6.3
Directing Writing

God presides over a modern metropolis.

Kapture: Locust

Kapture: Locust

2018

Director

5.3
Directing

Welcome to Kapture Technologies, where Gary and Jeff test the latest new gadgets.

Adam: The Prophet

Adam: The Prophet

2017

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

What are you willing to do, to be saved? Oats Studios presents a new chapter of ADAM and a new tribe of human survivors in this post-apocalyptic world...

Lima

Lima

2017

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.9
Directing Writing Producing

Oats Studios short exploring the ideas of multinational corporations, secret government programs and failed scientific experiments.

Gdansk

Gdansk

2017

Director

5.4
Directing

First in a series of medieval giants. Inspired by the artwork of Jakub Różalski.

Praetoria: Part One

Praetoria: Part One

2017

Director

5.1
Directing

A sword-wielding galactic general (or space pirate) waits in the hull of a strange ship in front of a large broken mirror, plagued by the memory of a ...

Adam: The Mirror

Adam: The Mirror

2017

Director, Writer, Executive Producer

6.6
Directing Writing Producing

Oats Studios brings to life the next chapter in the Adam story, made in real-time using Unity. Join our amnesiac hero as he discovers a clue about wha...

Kapture: Fluke

Kapture: Fluke

2017

Director, Screenplay

6.1
Directing Writing

Welcome to Kapture Technologies, where Gary and Jeff test the latest new gadgets.

Zygote

Zygote

2017

Director, Screenplay

7.0
Directing Writing

The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.

God: Serengeti

God: Serengeti

2017

Director, Screenplay

6.7
Directing Writing

God presides over a prehistoric tribe.

Firebase

Firebase

2017

Director, Screenplay

6.8
Directing Writing

Set during the Vietnam war, Firebase follows American soldier Hines through an ever-deepening web of science fiction madness.

Bad President - All My Sh*t

Bad President - All My Sh*t

2017

Director

5.1
Directing

In an alternate timeline Arizona State alumni William “Billy” Coltran was the president of the USA. Billy seems to have lost something...

Bad President - Oil Spill

Bad President - Oil Spill

2017

Director

5.3
Directing

In an alternate timeline Arizona State alumni William “Billy” Coltran was the president of the USA. Billy addresses the nation regarding a serious oil...

Rakka

Rakka

2017

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find...

The Escape

The Escape

2016

Director, Writer

6.4
Directing Writing

After the controversial disappearance of their Chief Medical Officer, a shadowy bio genetics company is under siege by the FBI for secretly cloning hu...

Chappie

Chappie

2015

Director, Writer, Producer

6.8
Directing Writing Producing

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

Elysium

Elysium

2013

Director, Writer, Producer

6.5
Directing Writing Producing

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 rest, who live o...

The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker's Log

The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker's Log

2009

as Self

Acting

A documentary that discusses the making of the Oscar-nominated movie District 9 (2009).

District 9

District 9

2009

as Man with Wikus' Coordinates (uncredited)

7.5
Acting

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South Afr...

District 9

District 9

2009

Director, Writer

7.5
Directing Writing

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South Afr...

Crossing the Line

Crossing the Line

2008

Co-Director

8.0
Directing

In WWI, a pilot’s teddy bear and an infantryman’s lost photo drift through chaos, their fragile presence briefly disrupting the brutal rhythm of battl...

Halo: Landfall

Halo: Landfall

2007

Director

6.2
Directing

Director Neill Blomkamp explores the lives of Marines and ODSTs on a last, desperate mission in a post-invasion Earth – a mission that may secure the ...

Tempbot

Tempbot

2006

Director

6.5
Directing

The film follows a 'tempbot', a robot assigned for a short period of time at an ordinary office, and his romantic endeavours with the Human Resources ...

Adicolor Yellow

Adicolor Yellow

2006

Director, Writer

5.5
Directing Writing

Yellow or Adicolor Yellow is a 2006 futuristic short film by director Neill Blomkamp, written by Terri Tatchell and Blomkamp. It was produced at the r...

Alive in Joburg

Alive in Joburg

2005

Director, Visual Effects

6.8
Directing

A documentary-style short film about the arrival of an alien spaceship over Johannesburg, South Africa.

Tetra Vaal

Tetra Vaal

2003

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

A faux advertisement for a third-world robotic police that established Neill Blomkamp's signature style of mixing lo-fi production with seamless CGI.

3000 Miles to Graceland

3000 Miles to Graceland

2001

Lead Animator

5.8

It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all th...

The Gone World

The Gone World

N/A

Director

Directing

Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy...

Alpha

N/A

Director

Directing

When a government experiment on a death row inmate goes awry, turning him into an apex predator, an FBI agent is assigned to track him down.

Starship Troopers

N/A

Director, Producer, Screenplay

Directing Producing Writing

Described as not being a remake of the 1997 film, but more of a faithful adaptation of the novel.