Terri Tatchell
Canadian screenwriter and Oscar-nominated co-writer of District 9 who is credited as a producer on Nightborne, Neill Blomkamp's 2026 AI short made with Seedance 2.0.
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- 2006
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- Human
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- Based in
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Active since
- 2006
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Biography
Terri Tatchell is a Canadian screenwriter and children's author, born in Toronto according to Wikipedia, who graduated from Vancouver Film School's Writing for Film and Television program in 2001. She began screenwriting in 2006 with the short Yellow, directed by her husband, Neill Blomkamp.
She co-wrote District 9 (2009) with Blomkamp, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Saturn Award nomination, and won the 2009 Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for the script. She also wrote for Chappie (2015) and the Oats Studios short Zygote (2017), and writes the picture-book series Endangered and Misunderstood, each book about a lesser-known endangered animal.
One report credits her as both producer and writer on Nightborne, the 13-minute AI short Blomkamp released on YouTube on 20 July 2026 through his new AI studio, Barley Studios. The film was generated with the Seedance 2.0 video model and used the faces and voices of 32 people recorded under likeness agreements.