---
name: "Daniel Kokotajlo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/daniel-kokotajlo"
fi1m_id: "daniel-kokotajlo"
imdb_id: "nm3782307"
tmdb_id: 1879788
wikidata_id: "Q117881640"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T00:21:00.623064+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Daniel Kokotajlo

## Identity

Daniel Kokotajlo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/daniel-kokotajlo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** daniel-kokotajlo
- **IMDb ID:** nm3782307
- **TMDB ID:** 1879788
- **Wikidata ID:** Q117881640
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kokotajlo_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117881640, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3782307/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1879788

Director. Born 1 January 1980 in UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1980, UK
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 81 (1), 2020s 56 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kokotajlo_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117881640, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3782307/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1879788

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Apostasy*](https://film.one/film/apostasy.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Daniel Kokotajlo is a British film writer and director. He wrote and directed the 2017 drama *Apostasy*, which draws on his experience growing up as a Jehovah's Witness, and the 2023 folk horror film *Starve Acre*, an adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley's novel.

Kokotajlo studied textiles and fine art at Manchester Metropolitan University, graduating in 2003, and screenwriting and film production at the University of Westminster, completing an MA in 2010. He has also directed short films under the name Dan P. K. Smyth.

*Apostasy* won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best First Screenplay and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. It was also nominated for six British Independent Film Awards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com, thetimes.com, screenuk.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *Apostasy* (2017), Fi1m 81, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/apostasy.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist* (2026), Fi1m 56, as self — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Starve Acre* (2024), Screenplay, Director
- *Apostasy* (2017), Director, Writer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/apostasy.md)
- *The Mess Hall of an Online Warrior* (2010), Writer, Producer, Director

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