Ahmed Peerbux

Ahmed Peerbux is an award-winning director-producer, who is currently working as associate producer on a three-part BBC factual drama series about the Grenfell Tower disaster with seven-time BAFTA winner Peter Kosminsky. He has also just completed producing his first feature-length documentary for a streamer (to be announced).

Ahmed began his industry journey in 2013, training at the MAMA Youth Project, before earning his first directing job in 2016 with How to Start an Airline (aired 2018), successfully pitched and made through Channel 4’s First Cut strand. Since then, he has directed and/or produced for the BBC, CBBC and Channel 4. He has enjoyed support and mentoring from the likes of Kosminsky, executive producer Sandy Smith and commissioning editor Rita Daniels and worked for such BAFTA-winning companies as Big Deal Films and Rogan Productions.

In 2024, he was selected to be a Breakthrough Leader by the TV Collective as a future talent who will help shape and redefine leadership and act as a proactive catalyst for positive change in the TV industry. Solidifying Ahmed’s place as a director-producer to watch, his most recent BBC One documentary, Humza: Forgiving the Unforgivable (2023), won Asian Media and Royal Television Society West awards for Best Programme/Show and Best Documentary respectively.

Ahmed wants to use his experience across documentary and drama to tell moving human stories that confound expectation, provoke reflection and offer original, unheard perspectives.