Neill Blomkamp

Biography
He moved when he was eighteen to Canada and began his career as a visual effects artist at both the film and television. He draw attention of the entire industry with its youth and talent. Blomkamp was nominated for an Emmy Award at age twenty for his outstanding and unmistakable visual effects. Shortly after he decided to try his luck in terms of management, serving initially as director of music videos and then making the transition to the world of comercailes. Blomkamp was struck by his great ability to combine computer-generated images with live action, without sacrificing their tone or emotion without losing his wonderful sense of humor.

In addition to captaining millionaire business for Nike, Citroen, Gatorade, Panasonic and Namco, Blomkamp directed numerous short films, each one more laureate, including Tempbot, a short funded by Wieden & Kennedy, and won an award for Best Film at the No Short Sport Film Festival.

In 2004, Blomkamp was included in the list of the five Most Promising Directors developed during the delivery of the First Boards Awards. He was also listed as New Directors Presentation of Saatchi & Saatchi at Cannes and in small and Awards shortlist. In 2005, Blomkamp received an award for Most Outstanding Visual Effects for his commercial for Citroen/Alive With Technology at the VES Awards, held in California. Since then appears regularly in magazines Shots, Shoot, Campaign, and Creativity.

In 2006 Peter Jackson choose him for directing the movie adaptation of the video game Halo, but the project was put on rest, during financial problems. But Jackson gave him some founds, and said he could make anything he wanted. The result was District 9, the most suprising sucsess of 2009, and the world opened their eyes for Blomkamp, and he was only thirty years old.

Director

 * 2009 - District 9

Writer

 * 2009 - District 9

Visual Effect Supervisor

 * 2001 - Smallville (TV)
 * 2000 - Dark Angel (TV)
 * 1997-2000 - Stargate SG-1 (TV)

Saturn Award

 * Nominated
 * 2010 - Best Director for District 9
 * 2010 - Best Writing for District 9 (with Terri Tatchell)