Neill Blomkamp

Neill Blomkamp is a South AfricanCanadian film director, film producer, screenwriter, and animator. Blomkamp employs a documentarystyle, handheld, cinma vrit technique, blending naturalistic and photorealistic computergenerated effects. He is best known as the cowriter and director of the critically acclaimed and financially successful science fiction film Districtand the dystopian science fiction film Elysium, which garnered moderately positive reviews and a good box office return. He is also known for his collaborations with South African actor Sharlto Copley. He is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Blomkamp was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the age of sixteen, he met Sharlto Copley, who had also attended Redhill High School in Johannesburg. Copley provided Blomkamp with the use of computers at his production company, for Blomkamp to pursue his passion and talent for 3D animation and design. In return, Blomkamp assisted Copley in creating 3D work for pitches on various projects. Blomkamp waswhen he moved to Vancouver with his family, where he enrolled in Vancouver Film School.

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