'District 9' director is no neophyte in an alien land

If you ever meet Neill Blomkamp, director of the uber-hyped "District 9," the South African-born protegee of Kiwi Peter Jackson, intense and sharp with a smartly mussed head of young director's hair, you must ask him about extraterrestrials. He knows the subject and will not disappoint. He grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, obsessed with sci-fi -- so much so that he was working as an animator at 16, then moved to Vancouver at 17, where he shot commercials and special effects for TV series ...

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