Adeyemi Michael is a multi-award winning filmmaker in both drama and documentary film and TV.

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.