tobi kyeremateng

Our short ‘Leaving Ikorodu In 1999’ has won the City of Melbourne Grand Prix for Best Short Film! Incredibly honoured to have won the highest honour at the biggest festival in the southern hemisphere which qualifies us for the Academy Awards 🥹 Thank you to the programmers, panellists and jury at @melbfilmfest , and for @britisharts for supporting our travel to Melbourne to collect the award in person. Endless thanks goes out to our Nigerian and UK crew who brought this short to life, @film4 and @bfinetwork for supporting a truly ambitious short, and @rahhh.shida for creating something deeply affecting and meaningful.

Them Ones x Garden of Afruika: Breaking Bread 🤎 Yesterday we brought together a few of the most inspiring, nurturing and imaginative minds and souls to cook together, break bread together, and dream of the collective potential and future of Them Ones together. Guided by @gardenofafruika , we made pumpkin chana curry with plait braid, plantain, and an avocado and cucumber salad, while dreaming up infrastructure, creativity, ambition and a collective ethos for Them Ones that is rooted in ‘we’, not ‘I’. The collective is at the centre of Them Ones - we exist because I exist, and I exist because you exist. Thank you to the family who gave up their Sunday to nourish one another: Abigail, Akil, Anu, Daniel, Debo, Estie, Eyram, Junior, Kareem, Nate, Ola, Reena, Sofia, Tamara-Jade, Tia, and Xanthus. A special thank you to Victoria and Maria at @hackneyschooloffood who allowed this day to run so smoothly and kept us warm with fresh Rosemary and Mint Tea from the garden, and to @wearemirchi for the delicious spiced rum. 📸 All captured by the peopledem

Introducing Tobi Kyeremateng - producer and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2025 ✨ Tobi’s credits include upcoming feature H Is For Hawk and Pillion. Head to link in bio to read Tobi’s profile! 📸 Peter Searle

Project A Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica public programme is now live 🌍 I’ve spent the first half of the year co-curating the public programme in response to Project A Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica - an exhibition co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona in collaboration with Barbican London and KANAL-Centre Pompidou Bruxelles. Grateful to be bringing together new gatherings, conversations, workshops and listening sessions with some incredible artists: anaiis, Auclair, Shawn Adams, Garden of Afruika, Nate Agbetu, Toyin Agbetu, Nubia Assata, Arda Awaiis, Rohan Ayinde, Sara Berkai, Christian Cassiel, douniah, Lynnée Denise, Rahel Debebe-Dessalegne, House of Dread, Elijah, Lex Fefegha, Amina Gichinga, AJ Haastrup, Matilda Feyisayo Ibini, Tianna Johnson, Jacob V Joyce, Bint Mbareh, Jennifer Lauren Martin, Yewande YoYo Odunubi, Tayo Rapoport, Zarina Rossheart, Kareem Samara, Saige Sounds, Tawiah, THABO, Roxanne Tataei, Earth Tenders, Busayo Twins, Joy White. Big love to my co-conspirators @isthatscully , @reenakalsi , @gracecosovic , @bird811 , @usherlavelle , Sarah, George, Jo and the overall public programming team for pushing for all the possibilities to pull this together. Link in bio for tickets and to hear more about the programme 🎟️

I’m skipping every day in May to raise money for @cr_uk 🩷 Last year, my mum was diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer. It is an aggressive cancer that requires aggressive treatment. Sorry if we’re friends and this is the first you’re hearing of it. The hardest period of my life and I don’t really know who I spoke to about it, but I deeply appreciate every single person who sent prayers, flowers, and well wishes to my mum and my family, those of you who hugged me deeply without saying a thing - you have no idea what you’ve done for me ❤️ This superstar is currently in remission 🤞🏿🥹 At one point we were both in the same hospital at the same time - me for a minor surgery and her for a blood transfusion, my twin fr 👯‍♀️ I’m taking part in Cancer Research UK’s Skipping Challenge and you guys have already smashed the target - wow wow wow, thank you ❤️ Please keep sharing if you can - there’s still 27 days to go. Send prayers for my calves and my knees, and if you have any skipping tips please let a girl know because the pain is REAL. Link is in bio 🏋🏿‍♀️🩷 I’ll be archiving this post after the challenge

Proud to be part of the @freebookscampaign creative board 📚 Even prouder to be a friend of @sofiaakel 👯‍♀️ The Free Books Public Library is open from now until end of May at @aethoslondon in Shoreditch. It’s a gorgeous space, so pull up on your co-working days and grab a good read during your lunch break 📚 Portrait by the one and only @stfndocs Free Books Library photographed by @livfishies & @vu.digitalcam

HURRICANE MELISSA FUNDRAISER: £800 RAISED! We’re thrilled to announce that our Hurricane Melissa New Year’s Fundraiser raised £800, that has been donated to the Caribbean Hurricane Fund to support on-the-ground rebuilding efforts in Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa. A huge thank you to organisers Anjela Lauren Smith and Tobi Kyeremateng, our host Richie Brave (BBC1 XTRA), and Babymother lead actor and DJ Wil Johnson, for helping us make the event the beautiful night of vibrant community it was. Shoutout to everyone who attended and celebrated Jamaican culture with us, and of course, a massive thank you to everyone who donated, including @maharishi who provided clothing for the raffle. For more information on the fund, and to make a donation please follow @black.curatorial

Thank you to @ourppls.art for leading the way in creative care 🫶🏿 I’ve said it so many times it’s probably become boring to hear, but I deeply care about the way we work with each other in the arts. This is a people’s business - 80% of my job is holding people’s highs and lows. Care isn’t about agreeing with each other all the time (because that would be dry), but how we show up for each other when production is hard, or one of us is having a bad day, or we don’t agree on an approach to things. Care is at the centre of conflict as well as resolution. I love getting to work with artists, crew, and stories, and I hope I keep getting to learn and do and learn and do and learn and do ❤️ #CreativesWhoCare Class of 2026

In Motion, We Remember | The National Gallery | 20.02.26 For @wearesoul ’s Friday Late at @nationalgallery , I’ve curated 3 film pieces that speak to the themes of art and movement, honouring the process as much as the performance, where artists move as one, finding rhythm, voice and connection through creativity. 💫 And Granny Would Dance (2024) dir. Maryam Mohajer Six-year-old Marmar observes how the adult women in her life navigate their relationships with their loved ones and each other. She listens in on her grandmother’s friends laughing about their partners as they play an illicit game of cards. Based on the director’s memories of her childhood in Iran, And Granny Would Dance is a tale of love, grief and resilience across generations. At its heart, it is a tribute to the solidarity of Iranian women. 💫 ęmí: freedomsong (2025) dir. Rohan Ayinde and Tayo Rapoport ęmí: freedomsong is an audio-visual piece inspired by bell hooks’ All About Love and Camille Sapara Barton’s Tending Grief. Reflecting on the Yoruba concept of ęmí {the breath that animates life} freedomsong invites audiences to connect with their voices and find the courage to speak out. Rooted in the history of revolutionary song, ęmí: freedomsong alchemises grief into a shared language of love, protest, and possibility. 💫 Paradise (2023), dir. Child. Director child. maps Crenshaw’s dreamy spirit of Black living through this kaleidoscopic visual narrative, merging archive footage, everyday characters, and music from producer and multi-instrumentalist Terrace Martin. Punctuated by a narration that feels like home, Paradise places Crenshaw’s soul before the audience and invites us to move, sing, and dream.

Rotterdam Producer Lab 2026 done 🇳🇱 Shock horror - didn’t take nearly enough photos to capture the experience. An amazing week of learning and laughing with the best of the best. An ambush of tigers, for real. Thank you @iffr and @britisharts for nominating me as part of the UK delegation of producers to attend and supporting me to get here. It’s a consideration I deeply needed at this stage in my career. To be able to travel to learn and work is a privilege. To spend a week with 80+ other people from all over the world is one-in-a-lifetime. Until next time, Rotterdam ❤️🤍💙

// ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER // Tobi Kyeremateng is a BAFTA-winning producer from South London, working across film, television, and artists’ moving image. She has produced shorts like Leaving Ikorodu in 1999 and 1 UP, and is Associate Producer on Philippa Lowthorpe’s H Is for Hawk and Harry Lighton’s Cannes Un Certain Regard debut Pillion. Through her company THEM ONES, she is developing features with BBC Film, including projects by Kosar Ali and Vivian Oparah. Recognized in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Europe, BAFTA Elevate, and BFI NETWORK@LFF , she won the Netflix New Talent Award 2023 and serves on the National Youth Theatre board. // ABOUT FINAL FRAME // Final Frame is an industry-first initiative by @okaystudio , offering £100k of in-kind post-production support to the next wave of culture-defining filmmakers. Find out more: finalframe.org @finalframefund