---
name: "Terri Tatchell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/terri-tatchell"
fi1m_id: "terri-tatchell"
imdb_id: "nm2833612"
tmdb_id: 82195
wikidata_id: "Q435705"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:02:57.734115+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."
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# Terri Tatchell

## Identity

Terri Tatchell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/terri-tatchell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** terri-tatchell
- **IMDb ID:** nm2833612
- **TMDB ID:** 82195
- **Wikidata ID:** Q435705
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Tatchell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435705, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2833612/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82195

Writer. Born 1 January 1978 in Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1978, Canada
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Tatchell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435705, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2833612/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82195

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*District 9*](https://film.one/film/district-9.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Terri Tatchell is a Canadian screenwriter. She graduated in 2001 from the Vancouver Film School's Writing for Film and Television programme.

She began her screenwriting career with the 2006 short film *Yellow*, directed by her husband Neill Blomkamp. Tatchell co-wrote the screenplay for *District 9* (2009) with Blomkamp; the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. She also wrote for *Chappie* (2015) and the short film *Zygote* (2017).

Tatchell won the 2009 Ray Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for her work on *District 9*. She has written a series of children's picture books under the title Endangered and Misunderstood.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *District 9* (2009), Fi1m 81, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/district-9.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Oats Studios: Volume 1* (2021), Writer
- *Zygote* (2017), Screenplay
- *Chappie* (2015), Writer
- *District 9* (2009), Writer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/district-9.md)
- *Adicolor Yellow* (2006), Writer
- *Starship Troopers*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Oscar-nominated Writing for Film & Television alum Terri Tatchell spoke to VFS students from Writing, Acting, and Film Production about her career and succe (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/100439/gallery-3dc29584e776.jpg) Oscar-nominated Writing for Film & Television alum Terri Tatchell spoke to VFS students from Writing, Acting, and Film Production about her career and succe (2009) — Vancouver Film School, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/District_9_Co-Writer_and_Writing_Grad_Terri_Tatchell_visits_VFS_%284012094996%29.jpg/1280px-District_9_Co-Writer_and_Writing_Grad_Terri_Tatchell_visits_VFS_%284012094996%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Oscar-nominated Writing for Film & Television alum Terri Tatchell spoke to VFS students from Writing, Acting, and Film Production about her career and succe (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/100439/gallery-90376269fcb3.jpg) Oscar-nominated Writing for Film & Television alum Terri Tatchell spoke to VFS students from Writing, Acting, and Film Production about her career and succe (2009) — Vancouver Film School, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Head_of_Writing_Michael_Baser_Meets_Terri_Tatchell_%284012097302%29.jpg/1280px-Head_of_Writing_Michael_Baser_Meets_Terri_Tatchell_%284012097302%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Oscar-nominated Writing for Film & Television alum Terri Tatchell spoke to VFS students from Writing, Acting, and Film Production about her career and succe (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/100439/gallery-577b199a66eb.jpg) Oscar-nominated Writing for Film & Television alum Terri Tatchell spoke to VFS students from Writing, Acting, and Film Production about her career and succe (2009) — Vancouver Film School, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Q%26A_Session_with_Terri_Tatchell_%284011333059%29.jpg/1280px-Q%26A_Session_with_Terri_Tatchell_%284011333059%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Terri Tatchell at Vancouver Film School in October 2009.](https://film.one/media/person/100439/gallery-658a7a1bf4d0.jpg) Terri Tatchell at Vancouver Film School in October 2009. — Vancouver Film School at https://www.flickr.com/photos/vancouverfilmschool/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/TerriThatchellOct09.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Oscar-nominated Writing for Film & Television alum Terri Tatchell spoke to VFS students from Writing, Acting, and Film Production about her career and succe (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/100439/gallery-4066b0dfaa15.jpg) Oscar-nominated Writing for Film & Television alum Terri Tatchell spoke to VFS students from Writing, Acting, and Film Production about her career and succe (2009) — Vancouver Film School, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Terri_Tatchell_%284011330279%29.jpg/1280px-Terri_Tatchell_%284011330279%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Oscar-nominated Writing for Film & Television alum Terri Tatchell spoke to VFS students from Writing, Acting, and Film Production about her career and succe (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/100439/gallery-832c4e2a8a88.jpg) Oscar-nominated Writing for Film & Television alum Terri Tatchell spoke to VFS students from Writing, Acting, and Film Production about her career and succe (2009) — Vancouver Film School, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Terri_Tatchell_and_Head_of_Writing_Michael_Baser_%284011329107%29.jpg/1280px-Terri_Tatchell_and_Head_of_Writing_Michael_Baser_%284011329107%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2010: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *District 9*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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