Nelson Adeosun

Nelson Adeosun is a BAFTA-winning producer-director, who was part of the production team that won Factual Series at the Television Awards in 2022 for Uprising (2021) as well as the History category at the Royal Television Society Awards. Nelson co-produced all three episodes of this documentary companion piece to Steve McQueen’s acclaimed Small Axe series. This success led to Nelson being selected for both The TV Collective’s Breakthrough Leaders, supported by Fremantle and Indigo talent, and Edinburgh TV Festival’s Ones to Watch in 2022.

An alumnus of Channel 4’s Alpha Fund and Commissioning Mentoring Network and ITV’s Step Up 60 diversity and career progression initiative, Nelson has gone on to produce for the BBC, ITV, Sky Sports, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Hulu. Prior to Uprising, he produced the RTS award-winning Damilola: The Boy Next Door and The Rap Game UK (both 2020), which was nominated for a BAFTA for Entertainment Programme. He also created the three-part Channel 4 online series How Not to Be Racist (2021), presented by writer Chanté Joseph. His script editing on No More Wings (2019) helped the film win the 2020 Tribeca award for Best Narrative Short.

Since starting on the Elevate programme, Nelson has directed his first broadcast single for BBC3, Drill on Trial (2023), about the drill rap scene, and produced a four-episode docu-drama called Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Colour (2024), fronted by Idris Elba, for National Geographic and Disney+. He has also secured a commission with SkySports for his company Boy Wonder Films.

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