Daniel Kokotajlo (born 1980 or 1981) is a British film writer and director. He has also used the name Dan P. K. Smyth. He wrote and directed the 2017 film Apostasy, which reflects his own experience of growing up as a Jehovah's Witness, and the 2023 film Starve Acre, based on Andrew Michael Hurley's novel of the same name. Apostasy won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for "Best First Screenplay", and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer in 2018, and for six British Independent Film Awards (BIFA). 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Kokotajlo (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- January 1, 1980 (46)
- UK
- Director and writer
- 2 on MovieCove · 3 credits in all
Known for
Where can I watch Daniel Kokotajlo's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 2 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (2).
Subscription and free streaming for Daniel Kokotajlo's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
3 credits, 2 with a MovieCove page.
Starve Acre(2023)
Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films
Apostasy(2017)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
The Mess Hall of an Online Warrior (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)