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Neil Rowe

Born January 23, 1980 · Exeter, Devon, England (age 46)

Neil Rowe is an award winning freelance VFX artist and filmmaker best known for Robot World and Alien Outbreak. As a visual effects artist Neil has won numerous awards within this field namely: Best VFX at Other Worlds Austin Film Festival, Best feature film at the Berlin Sci Fi film festival in 2020, and Best VFX - honourable mention at Los Angeles Film Festival 2021. Neil was born in Exeter, De…

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The Devil Comes at Night

The Devil Comes at Night · 2023

The Devil Comes at Night

A washed up boxer searching for his inheritance must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father's farmhouse by a local cannibal cult.

Earthen

MovieHorrorThriller

After a personal tragedy, a young woman seeks solace in nature. The comfort this first grants her takes a terrible turn as she realises there's something else in the woods.

Alien Outbreak

Alien Outbreak · 2020

MovieScience FictionHorror

In a small rural community, local police officers Zoe and Patrick begin their shift as normal but soon, strange events unfold. Residents begin behaving erratically, and suicidal panic spreads amongst the township they are trying to protect. Zoe and Patrick realise alien machines are taking hold, cutting their small group of survivors off from the outside world. Can the determined humans band together to save their community, and all mankind, from extinction?

Magic

MovieDramaComedy

Based on the play 'Magic' by G.K Chesterton. A conjurer, feeling cornered by a hostile audience, turns an evening of simple parlor magic into a night of madness by performing one last trick. How does he do it? That is the grand question.

Watch the Sunset

Watch the Sunset · 2017

Watch the Sunset

MovieCrimeAction

In a single afternoon a man comes to grips with the power of his past when his estranged family becomes tangled in its web. Shot in a continuous take.

Aftermath

Aftermath · 2024

MovieScience FictionMystery

After waking up in the middle of a forest with no memories, a young woman is targeted by mysterious strangers with a motive as unclear as her way back home.

Zoe and the Astronaut

Zoe and the Astronaut · 2018

Zoe and the Astronaut

MovieDramaRomance

Zoe has suffered with Leukemia her whole life. When her condition worsens, she's given months to live. One day, a Young Astronaut crash lands near her home. Zoe spends her last days showing the Astronaut the wonders of Planet Earth.

Robot World

Robot World · 2015

MovieThrillerScience Fiction

50 years from now, a pilot (Ian Rowe) is sent 60 light years across the galaxy through a new device capable of crossing the extra spatial dimensions. His mission is to orbit and reconnoiter the planet then return home. The planet is known to be populated by intelligent life. Once at his destination the pilot has to perform an emergency landing and becomes marooned on the alien planet, and soon discovers the planets only inhabitants are predatory machines.

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The Devil Comes at Night

The Devil Comes at Night · 2023

The Devil Comes at Night

A washed up boxer searching for his inheritance must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father's farmhouse by a local cannibal cult.

Visual Effects

Earthen

MovieHorrorThriller

After a personal tragedy, a young woman seeks solace in nature. The comfort this first grants her takes a terrible turn as she realises there's something else in the woods.

VFX Artist

Alien Outbreak

Alien Outbreak · 2020

MovieScience FictionHorror

In a small rural community, local police officers Zoe and Patrick begin their shift as normal but soon, strange events unfold. Residents begin behaving erratically, and suicidal panic spreads amongst the township they are trying to protect. Zoe and Patrick realise alien machines are taking hold, cutting their small group of survivors off from the outside world. Can the determined humans band together to save their community, and all mankind, from extinction?

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Magic

MovieDramaComedy

Based on the play 'Magic' by G.K Chesterton. A conjurer, feeling cornered by a hostile audience, turns an evening of simple parlor magic into a night of madness by performing one last trick. How does he do it? That is the grand question.

Visual Effects

Watch the Sunset

Watch the Sunset · 2017

Watch the Sunset

MovieCrimeAction

In a single afternoon a man comes to grips with the power of his past when his estranged family becomes tangled in its web. Shot in a continuous take.

Visual Effects

Aftermath

Aftermath · 2024

MovieScience FictionMystery

After waking up in the middle of a forest with no memories, a young woman is targeted by mysterious strangers with a motive as unclear as her way back home.

Visual Effects

Zoe and the Astronaut

Zoe and the Astronaut · 2018

Zoe and the Astronaut

MovieDramaRomance

Zoe has suffered with Leukemia her whole life. When her condition worsens, she's given months to live. One day, a Young Astronaut crash lands near her home. Zoe spends her last days showing the Astronaut the wonders of Planet Earth.

Visual Effects

Robot World

Robot World · 2015

MovieThrillerScience Fiction

50 years from now, a pilot (Ian Rowe) is sent 60 light years across the galaxy through a new device capable of crossing the extra spatial dimensions. His mission is to orbit and reconnoiter the planet then return home. The planet is known to be populated by intelligent life. Once at his destination the pilot has to perform an emergency landing and becomes marooned on the alien planet, and soon discovers the planets only inhabitants are predatory machines.

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