Phoebe Yemi Ara

Phoebe Yemi Ara is one of the Advisory Committee’s Young Committee members. She is a London Library Emerging Writer (2021/22) and Pan Macmillan Writer on The Rise (2024). She has been selected as a BFI x ICO Emerging Producer (2021, 2023) a Watersprite Hubs Producer (2024) one of Channel 4 Rise2 Development Stream talents, designed to identify the next generation of filmmaking talent (2024) and one of Edinburgh TV Festival’s The Network (2021) designed to identify bright new talent in film/tv.

Her projects POLAR and EIGHT have both been nominated for a number of awards internationally. She has worked within the TV/Film development teams at Sony Pictures Television International, as well as Sky Studios and multi award winning Nexus Studios. She serves on advisory groups seeking to improve diversity within the film/tv industry.