Tobi Kyeremateng

Tobi Kyeremateng is a producer working across scripted and unscripted film and television, who won a BAFTA in the Short Form category for five-part comedy-drama How to Be a Person (2022).

Thriving as a producer in scripted, Tobi’s short film 1 Up (2023) was part of the Official Selection at London Film Festival in 2023 and is currently busy associate producing the feature film, Pillion, for Element Pictures/BBC Film/BFI, which stars Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling. As producer, she recently delivered Dating Horror Stories, a comedy sketch series for Comedy Central/Mothers Best Child; and is in post on Leaving Ikorodu In 1999 (Film 4/BFI/Them Ones Productions), a short starring Sheila Atim.

In the world of unscripted, Tobi was a recipient of the inaugural Netflix Documentary Talent Fund, which led to her directorial debut, the documentary short Ówàmbé (2022) and was shortlisted for a British Journalism award for her long-form documentary for the Untold strand, entitled Konan: Trapped in Trauma (TOAD/Channel 4 Documentaries).

Among her many achievements, Tobi was named in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 – Europe – Art and Culture list in 2022, won the Netflix New Talent Award at the Women In Film and TV Awards 2023 and was selected for talent development programmes BFI NETWORK @LFF in 2023 and ScreenSkills’ Film Forward in 2024. She was also among The TV Collective’s 2024 Breakthrough Leaders cohort, which supports exceptional individuals from Global Majority backgrounds to have a positive impact on the leadership of the British television industry. In 2023, she won the Netflix New Talent Award at the Women In Film and TV Awards.

Tobi is represented by Curtis Brown.

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