Neill Blomkamp

Trivia

• Blomkamp is currently represented by SPY FILMS in Canada, and by Ridley Scott's RSA in California.
• Blomkamp was then slated to direct his first feature-length film, an adaptation of the Halo video game, before funding for that film collapsed.
• In 2008, Halo: Combat, the second of the three installments, won the Cannes Lions 2008 – Film Lions Grand Prix.
• In 2007, Blomkamp directed a trilogy of live-action short films (known collectively as Landfall) set in the Halo universe, to promote the release of Halo 3.
• Blomkamp worked as a visual effects artist at The Embassy Visual Effects in Vancouver as well as Rainmaker Digital Effects.
• In 2003, Blomkamp was commissioned to illustrate photo-real future aircraft for Popular Science's "Next century in Aviation" and in 2004 was commissioned to illustrate "The Future of the Automobile.
• Blomkamp began as a professional animator at the age of sixteen, working for Deadtime under Simon Hansen and Sharlto Copley in South Africa.
• He is best known as the director of District 9.
• Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects.
• Neill Blomkamp is a South African born, Vancouver, BC-based director of feature-length and short films and advertisements.