Koby Adom

Director / Writer / Producer

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Film, TV & Theatre

Assistant: Jocelyn Waddell

Film, TV & Theatre

Koby Adom is a Ghanaian-British film director, writer & executive producer who was born in Ivory Coast but raised in South London from childhood. He is also the CEO and founder of DBK Studios.

Graduating with a Masters Degree from the London Film School in 2017, Koby went on to write and direct his breakthrough short film: Haircut the following year, finishing the film in May 2018. Haircut screened at the London Film Festival and a few places, racked up 900,000 views online and earned Koby a spot on the 2018 Screen Daily Stars of Tomorrow list as well as the Broadcast Hotshot list for 2019. By November 2018, Koby was in Cape Town preparing to shoot three episodes of BBC 1 drama Noughts and Crosses at the age of 28.

Between September 2020 till now, Koby has directed two episodes of Top Boy Season 4 for Netflix, the entire 4-part season 2 of Noughts and Crosses for BBC 1 as well as Executive producing 5 short films from black filmmakers through DBK Studios, funded by Sky Studios, airing on Sky Arts. Koby is writing his debut feature film as well as episodes of a commissioned horror/thriller TV show which will all be set and directed by Koby in Accra, Ghana. He's also executive producing two other commissioned TV shows from other filmmakers he has mentored.

In Development

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HOUSE GIRLS

2023

DBK Studios / Working Title TV (For Sky Atlantic)

JIMMY'S CLIPZ

2023

DBK Studios

Television

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DREAMING WHILST BLACK

2022

A24, Showtime & BBC

Director.

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES S 2 (all episodes)

2021

Mammoth/ BBC

TOP BOY

2020

Cowboy/ Netflix

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES (3 episodes)

2019

BBC

Produced by Mammoth Screen
Exec Produced by Roc Nation

Short Films

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HAIRCUT

2018

Joi Productions

As writer and director.

London Film Festival 2018, Film Africa 2018, London Calling Plus Award from David Yates, Long listed for Best British Short at the 2019 BAFTAs, Short of the Week, Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2019.

HOUSE GIRL

2016

The London Film School

As writer and director.

Montreal World Film Festival 2016, Africa International Film Festival 2016, Nominated for Best Student Short at London Short Film Festival 2017, Blackstar Film Festival 2017.