The name Neill Blomkamp may not be familiar to moviegoers, but that could very well change with the release of District 9, the South African director’s debut feature – a sci-fi thriller/thinly-veiled apartheid allegory shepherded by no less a filmmaker than Peter Jackson. District 9 depicts what happens when aliens land on earth and find themselves exploited for their weapons technology. Check out the film when it opens on Agust 14th. And check out a gallery of images from the film after the jump.