Darren Dale

Darren Dale is an Indigenous Australian film and television producer. Since joining Blackfella Films as a producer in 2001, he is co-director of the company, along with founder Rachel Perkins. Dale is known for co-producing many films and television series with Miranda Dear since 2010, with their most recent collaboration being the second season of Total Control. Career Dale joined Blackfella Films in 2000, and became co-director with company founder Rachel Perkins. The first stand-out success of this collaboration came with the production of First Australians, a 7-part documentary broadcast on SBS Television in 2008 and was the winner of multiple awards. It remains the highest-selling educational title in Australia, and was also sold overseas. Dale has co-produced many films and television series with Miranda Dear, who joined Blackfella in 2010. In 2011 he produced The Tall Man, a full-length documentary film directed by Tony Krawitz about the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Great Palm Island in Queensland, which won several awards, including the Walkley Documentary Award. Other producing credits include First Contact (which won the 2015 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Factual Program), Filthy Rich & Homeless, DNA Nation, Deep Water: The Real Story and In My Own Words, directed by Erica Glynn.