Adeyemi pronounced ADE-YEMI is a Nigerian born, London raised multi award winning Filmmaker in both fiction and documentary film and TV.
His work primarily centres the African and Black experience. Telling stories of resilience, existence, reimagining and transformation of people both in the diaspora and on the African continent. His Yoruba heritage and culture has featured heavily in his work embracing all from the mundane to stories of wonder. He is intent on carving out narratives that allow the stories he tells to have agency, nuance and license to be free from constraint, most importantly bringing value to African and Black life.
An NFTS Directing graduate he was a Broadcast(2014) Hotshot with his breakout film Sodiq, winning Grierson(2013) & Al Jazerra(2014) awards, premiering at Sheffield Doc Fest.
His Fantasy film ‘Entitled’ played BFI London, LSFF and won Best Short at the Screen Nation Awards & Best Debut Director at Edinburgh TV Fest(2019). A Hot Doc's Blue Ice Fellow/Durban Film Mart alumni he directed BBC1’s ‘Murder On the Streets’ (2018).
Adeyemi collaborated with Netflix(2020) curating a living collection ‘Black British Stories’. His Sci-Fi ‘The Future Isn't What It Used To Be'(2021) Film4 was nominated at TIFF, BlackStar, Chicago IFF. Other shorts include ‘Dark Matter’, ‘Photographer in Focus: Aida Muluneh’(Nowness).
In 2023 he directed BBC/Netflix ‘Champion’ and Amazon’s ‘Anansi Boys’ which is set for a 2025 release. He recently directed the drama for Nat Geo on a 4-part series ‘Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color’ streaming on Disney+ and Hulu, whilst in development on two feature films ‘Ibeji’(BBCFilms) a supernatural fantasy and ‘Emi’(Film4) a supernatural Sci-Fi.