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Maddie Dai

Maddie Dai is a Kiwi writer and New Yorker cartoonist, whose first feature WE WERE DANGEROUS (Produced by Taika Waititi’s PIKI FILMS) recently showed at BFI FLARE to great reviews. It’s a left-of-center, darkly comedic commentary on colonization at New Zealand schools, the core of which is the friendship of three misfit teens. Maddie is currently writing on THE OUTCASTS with FX,  Sarah Quintrell’s THE OTHER BENNET SISTER with Bad Wolf, and has previously been a staff writer on OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH.

We Were Dangerous Trailer

Credits

FEATURE FILM
Date: 2024
Production (role):
WE WERE DANGEROUS
Company:
Piki Films
Project details:
Premiered at BFI Flare and SXSW.
TELEVISION
Date: 2025
Production (role):
THE OTHER BENNET SISTER
Company:
Bad Wolf for BBC
Project details:
Episode 4
Date: 2025
Production (role):
BADJELLY
Company:
Cantilever Group
Project details:
Episode 10 of animated show based on the Spike Mulligan book.
Date: 2024
Production (role):
THE OUTCASTS
Company:
FX
Project details:
Animated TV show script commission
Date: 2022
Production (role):
OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH S2
Company:
HBO
Project details:
Writers Room
Date: 2022
Production (role):
REUNION
Company:
Left Bank
Project details:
Treatment commission based on an original idea
Date: 2022
Production (role):
HIRED
Company:
DNA
Project details:
Treatment commission based on an original idea
Date: 2021
Production (role):
THE POWER S2
Company:
Sister / Amazon
Project details:
Writers Room
Date: 2020
Production (role):
SUPER
Company:
BBC
Project details:
Pilot in development
SHORT FILMS
Date: 2025
Production (role):
Jael Drives the Nail
Project details:
Written / Directed by Maddie Dai
Starring: Ella Bruccoleri, Thalissa Teixeira, Kura Forrester
Date: 2023
Production (role):
MINISTRY OF JINGLE
Company:
Piki Films
Project details:
Written / Directed by Maddie Dai

Credits

  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2024
    Production (role): WE WERE DANGEROUS
    Company: Piki Films
    Project details: Premiered at BFI Flare and SXSW.
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2025
    Production (role): THE OTHER BENNET SISTER
    Company: Bad Wolf for BBC
    Project details: Episode 4
  • Date: 2025
    Production (role): BADJELLY
    Company: Cantilever Group
    Project details: Episode 10 of animated show based on the Spike Mulligan book.
  • Date: 2024
    Production (role): THE OUTCASTS
    Company: FX
    Project details: Animated TV show script commission
  • Date: 2022
    Production (role): OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH S2
    Company: HBO
    Project details: Writers Room
  • Date: 2022
    Production (role): REUNION
    Company: Left Bank
    Project details: Treatment commission based on an original idea
  • Date: 2022
    Production (role): HIRED
    Company: DNA
    Project details: Treatment commission based on an original idea
  • Date: 2021
    Production (role): THE POWER S2
    Company: Sister / Amazon
    Project details: Writers Room
  • Date: 2020
    Production (role): SUPER
    Company: BBC
    Project details: Pilot in development
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2025
    Production (role): Jael Drives the Nail
    Company:
    Project details: Written / Directed by Maddie Dai
    Starring: Ella Bruccoleri, Thalissa Teixeira, Kura Forrester
  • Date: 2023
    Production (role): MINISTRY OF JINGLE
    Company: Piki Films
    Project details: Written / Directed by Maddie Dai
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