About
Dave Cartel is a screenwriter, producer, and director who has written and directed 100+ hours of television, created five shows, and ran one production company.
He won an AWGIE award for his work on Rock Island Mysteries, directed Sammy J sketches that hit 4 million views online, created and wrote the Smackdown series which scored some of the highest ratings ever for ABC3, and wrote on Mikki Vs The World - winner of the ATOM award for Best Children’s Television Program.
Cartel sometimes writes on video games and shares every idea that pops into his head on TikTok (@dave_cartel).
In his own work, Cartel is drawn to the unique challenges of modern times. Environmentalism, technology, why on Earth we have a corporate social network. Nihilism is in vogue right now but Cartel isn’t having it. He prefers to address global problems with comedy, and find the many reasons we have to be hopeful.
Cartel lives in Melbourne with two sassy kids, a compulsive baking habit, and a laconic goldfish.