Founder.
Victoria Adeola Thomas
Victoria is a filmmaker, researcher, and educator of entrepreneurship in the film value chain.
She has worked on a variety of film and TV projects across shorts, features and television in both the factual and fiction space, as a Producer/Director, on narratives that explore the experiences of people of African descent, most recently as a Factual Producer/Director on the Queen Cleopatra series on Netflix.
She is interested in economic equity in the film business as it relates to the Diaspora communities across Europe. She is a Course Director and lecturer in the entertainment value chain and law across the value chain on the MA International Film Business at London Film School, a lecturer in Producing at South Bank University and an External Examiner on the MA Producing at Aberystwyth University.
She has also delivered talks and workshops on the film value chain, moderated panels for a variety of organisations to include but not limited to Sunnyside Of The Doc, Africa No Filter, British Council, Sarajevo Film Festival, We Are UK Film at Cannes Film Festival and Women in Film & TV International.
She is on jury for the BIFA’s and the Athena List and sits on the board of Film Africa and the steering committee for ARTEF (The Anti-Racism Taskforce for European Film).
She is an alumnus of Filmonomics, Jihlava’s Emerging Producers Program, Berlinale Talents, EAVE, IFP, The AttaGirl Lab and the UK’s National Film and Television School.
She is a voting member of the European Film Academy, BAFTA Scotland and BAFTA UK.
She is available for talks, workshops, research, and film collaborations in and around her areas of interests.
Film Interests:
Africa/African Diaspora history
Political/Crime thrillers
Political/Social satires
Narratives that center the female experience
Research Interests:
Economic Equity in European Cinema
Intellectual Property, ownership and power structures in European Cinema
Business & legal affairs across the film value chain
Mentoring creative executives from historically marginalised backgrounds
She is not ‘the’ Casting Director.