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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Ash
2025
Executive Producer
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
2023
Director
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
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
2021
Director
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
2021
Producer, Director, Screenplay
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
2020
Director, Producer
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
2019
Director
An "Anthem" live-action short/trailer set decades before the beginning of the game.
God: City
2018
Director, Writer
God presides over a modern metropolis.
Kapture: Locust
2018
Director
Welcome to Kapture Technologies, where Gary and Jeff test the latest new gadgets.
Adam: The Prophet
2017
Director, Writer
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
2017
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Oats Studios short exploring the ideas of multinational corporations, secret government programs and failed scientific experiments.
Gdansk
2017
Director
First in a series of medieval giants. Inspired by the artwork of Jakub Różalski.
Praetoria: Part One
2017
Director
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
2017
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
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
2017
Director, Screenplay
Welcome to Kapture Technologies, where Gary and Jeff test the latest new gadgets.
Zygote
2017
Director, Screenplay
The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.
God: Serengeti
2017
Director, Screenplay
God presides over a prehistoric tribe.
Firebase
2017
Director, Screenplay
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
2017
Director
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
2017
Director
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
2017
Director, Writer
A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find...
The Escape
2016
Director, Writer
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
2015
Director, Writer, Producer
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
2013
Director, Writer, Producer
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
2009
as Self
A documentary that discusses the making of the Oscar-nominated movie District 9 (2009).
District 9
2009
as Man with Wikus' Coordinates (uncredited)
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
2009
Director, Writer
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
2008
Co-Director
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
2007
Director
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
2006
Director
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
2006
Director, Writer
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
2005
Director, Visual Effects
A documentary-style short film about the arrival of an alien spaceship over Johannesburg, South Africa.
Tetra Vaal
2003
Director, Writer
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
2001
Lead Animator
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
N/A
Director
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
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
Described as not being a remake of the 1997 film, but more of a faithful adaptation of the novel.