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Daniel Kokotajlo

British film director (born 1980/81) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Daniel Kokotajlo (born 1980 or 1981)[1] is a British film writer and director.[2] He has also used the name Dan P. K. Smyth.[3][4]

He wrote and directed the 2017 film Apostasy, which reflects his own experience of growing up as a Jehovah's Witness,[5] and the 2023 film Starve Acre, based on Andrew Michael Hurley's novel of the same name.[6]

Apostasy won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for "Best First Screenplay",[7] and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer in 2018,[8] and for six British Independent Film Awards (BIFA).[9]

Kokotajlo has a BA (2003) in textiles and fine art from Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA (2010) from the University of Westminster in screenwriting and film production.[10]

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

  • The Mess Hall of an Online Warrior (2010): writer and director[4]
  • Myra (2011): writer and director[9]
  • Every Good Boy Does Fine (2012): writer and director[9]
  • Gummy Man Rage (2012): writer and director[9]
  • Off Yer 'Ead (2014): writer and director[9]

References

External links

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