Neill Blomkamp

On 17 September 1979, South African-Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator Neill Blomkamp was born in Johannesburg. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects, and his films often deal with themes of xenophobia and social segregation. He is best known as the co-writer and director of the critically acclaimed and financially successful science fiction action film 'District 9', for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also directed the science fiction action films 'Elysium' and 'Chappie'. 

Time named Blomkamp as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2009. A 2011 article in Forbes named him as the 21st most powerful celebrity from Africa.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Selected publications

Films by Neill Blomkamp

Chappie / Neill Blomkamp. - [Hilversum] : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2015]

District 9 / Neill Blomkamp. - Hilversum : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, cop. 2010

Publications about Neill Blomkamp's work

(The) Utopia(n) and becoming (other) in Neill Blomkamp's science-fiction trilogy: District 9 (2009), Elysium (2013) and Chappie (2015) / Cilliers Van Den Berg.
In: Tydskrif vir geesteswetenskappe, 2021, Vol.60 (4-2)

Reading the rubbish dump as a heterotopia in Neill Blomkamp's district 9 / Megan Jones.
In: Social dynamics, 2020, Vol.46 (2), p.297-309

Becoming Other: self-transformation and social change in Neill Blomkamp films / Kimberly Yost.
In: Leadership, Popular Culture and Social Change, 2018, p.146-156

What languages do aliens speak? Multilingual 'Otherness' of diasporic dystopia in District 9 / Akiko Mizoguchi.
In: Journal of African cinemas, 2016, Vol.8 (2), p.169-179

Tooth and nail: anxious bodies in Neill Blomkamp's District 9 / Mocke Jansen van Veuren.
In: Critical arts, 2012, Vol.26 (4), p.570-586

Interview with Neill Blomkamp about his film DEMONIC (2021)

Timeline of South African film directors via DBpedia and Wikidata