Question: What is the profession of Neill Blomkamp and Edward Laemmle?

Context articles: The Whole Town's Talking (1926 film)
Alive in Joburg
Neill Blomkamp
District 9
Edward Laemmle
The Man in Blue
Yellow (2006 short film)
Top o' the Morning (1922 film)
Elysium (film)
Chappie (film)

The Whole Town's Talking is a 1926 American silent adventure comedy film directed by Edward Laemmle, based on a play by Anita Loos and John Emerson.
 It stars Edward Everett Horton, Virginia Lee Corbin, and Trixie Friganza.
Alive in Joburg is a 2006 science fiction short film directed by Neill Blomkamp, produced by Simon Hansen, Sharlto Copley and Carlo Trulli as Executive Producer of Spy Films in Canada.
 It runs approximately six minutes long and was filmed in Johannesburg, South Africa with soundtrack featuring composer sound designer Drazen Bosnjak's "Harmonic Code".
 The film explores themes of apartheid and is noted for its visual effects as well as its documentary-style imagery.
 Blomkamp's 2009 feature film "District 9", starring Copley, expands themes and elements from this short film.
Neill Blomkamp (] ; born 17 September 1979) is a South African film director, film producer, screenwriter, and animator.
 Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects.
 He is best known as the co-writer and director of the critically acclaimed and financially successful science fiction film "District 9", for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
 He also directed 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.
District 9 is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham.
 It is a co-production of New Zealand, the United States, and South Africa.
 The film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James, and was adapted from Blomkamp's 2006 short film "Alive in Joburg".
Edward Laemmle (October 25, 1887 – April 2, 1937) was an American film director of the silent era.
 He directed 62 films between 1920 and 1935.
The Man in Blue is a 1925 silent film drama directed by Edward Laemmle and starring Herbert Rawlinson.
 It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Yellow or Adicolor Yellow is a 2006 futuristic short film by director Neill Blomkamp, written by Terri Tatchell and Blomkamp.
 It was produced at the request of sportswear maker Adidas as a part of its "Adicolor" viral ads campaign, in which advertising agency IDEALOGUE gathered seven directors, assigning a different color to each of them, and asked them to produce a feature based on their emotional and creative response to the given color, later to be distributed in the form of podcasts.
Top o' the Morning is a lost 1922 silent film romantic drama directed by Edward Laemmle and starring Gladys Walton.
 It was produced and distributed by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
Elysium is a 2013 American science fiction action film produced, written and directed by Neill Blomkamp.
 It stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Alice Braga, and Sharlto Copley.
 The film takes place on both a ravaged Earth, and a luxurious space habitat (Stanford torus design) called Elysium.
 The film itself offers deliberate social commentary which explores political and sociological themes such as immigration, overpopulation, health care, worker exploitation, the justice system, and social class issues.
 The film was released on August 9 , 2013 by TriStar Pictures, in both conventional and IMAX Digital theaters.
 It was a modest success and received generally positive reviews from critics, even though many considered it a disappointment after Blomkamp's first film "District 9".
 "Elysium" was released on DVD and Blu-ray discs in Region 1 on December 17, 2013.
Chappie (stylized as CHAPPiE) is a 2015 science fiction action thriller film directed by South African director Neill Blomkamp and written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell.
 It stars Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Sigourney Weaver, Hugh Jackman, and Watkin Tudor Jones (Ninja) and Yolandi Visser of the South African zef rap-rave group Die Antwoord as metafictional versions of themselves.
 The film, set and shot in Johannesburg, is about an artificially intelligent law enforcement robot captured and taught by gangsters, who nickname it Chappie.