Danielle MacLean (AUS)
Co-Founder and Producer
Tamarind Tree Pictures

Danielle is an experienced writer, producer and director.

She wrote and directed Bonita Mabo – For Who I Am. Her short film My Colour Your Kind was nominated for AFI and Film Critics Awards and screened at numerous festivals. Danielle wrote and directed the drama Queen of Hearts, winning the AFI Award for Best Non-Feature Screenplay. In 2007, she won an AWGIE for her script in the Channel Nine/Disney children’s series Double Trouble.

Danielle wrote and produced 2012 SFF Foxtel Finalist Croker Island Exodus. She wrote Family, the premiere episode of Redfern Now and three episodes of the ABC Indigenous comedy series 8MMM Aboriginal Radio.

Her 2014 ABC documentary Blown Away, was nominated for an Australian Directors Guild Award. In 2017 Danielle wrote, produced and directed Carry The Flag, a half hour documentary about the legacy of the Torres Strait Island flag’s designer Bernard Namok Snr. Danielle wrote on TV Week Logie Award winning animated series Little J & Big Cuz and Grace Beside Me. She also wrote on Bunya Productions’ award winning series Mystery Road and SBS series True Colours.

Danielle is currently Producer on Barrumbi Kids, a 10 x 26 mins children’s drama series for NITV, co produced by Tamarind Tree Pictures and Ambience Entertainment. Winner Children’s Production of the Year at the 2023 SPA Awards.