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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.

Randa Chahoud, daughter of a Syrian-German family, graduated in 2007 as one of the creators and directors of the ZDF sci-fi series IJON TICHY:RAUMPILOT, which was nominated for several awards (a.o. First Steps Award 2007, Grimme Prize 2008+2012) and won the German Television Prize 2007 (Newcomer). In 2019 her TV movie TATORT “Lakritz” achieved one of the highest ratings of the year (12.87 million) and her English-language feature film THE ACCIDENTAL REBEL (D/GB) premiered in BUSAN, South Korea. The movie won the Best Young Actor + the Youth Jury Prize at the Max Ophüls Prize 2020 and received the Prize for Best Director + the Award of Excellence at the Catalina Film Festival, US 2020. In 2020, Randa Chahoud was introduced by Screendaily as one of the “Eight emerging German filmmakers to watch”. She directed the Amazon Prime series DEUTSCHLAND 89 and was nominated for Best Director at the German Television Prize 2021. In 2021, Randa Chahoud worked as director and creative producer on the legal drama series LEGAL AFFAIRS (ARD), which received an award for Best Actress and Best Cinematography at the German Academy of Television Award 2022. In 2023 she directed the historical drama series DEUTSCHES HAUS / THE INTERPRETER OF SILENCE which aired worldwide on Disney+/Hulu on 15 November 2023, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Series at this year’s Critics Choice Award 2024 and for Best Drama Series at the German Television Prize 2024. Randa Chahoud is currently in post-production for the international English language series THE KOLLECTIVE (showrunners: Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli, production: Submarine, broadcasters: Hulu + The Alliance TF2, RAI, ZDF) which will air in spring 2025.