Brian Tilley | Director and Producer | UK

Brian Tilley has directed several documentary series for Al Jazeera English including five seasons of the award-winning six-part My series, shot in Nigeria, Cuba, Tunisia, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe.

He is currently a Series Producer of the Africa Direct series of short African films from across the continent for Al Jazeera.

Brian produced the short documentary films for the Steps’ Why Democracy global documentary series and subsequently produced both the 8-long and 40 short films for the global Why Poverty series.

His documentary on AIDS activist Zackie Achmat, It’s My Life, was screened in competition at IDFA and on several international television channels, including BBC, ARTE, YLE, CBC, YLE, SVT, DR and SUNDANCE CHANNEL.

He wrote and directed the drama series In A Time Of Violence, co-produced with Channel Four, YLE and ARTE, which sold to 32 countries.

He has been a Story Consultant or Script Editor on acclaimed documentaries including Rehad Desai’s Emmy award-winning Miner Shot Down, Hajooj Kuka’s Beats of the Antonov, which won the TIFF Audience Award and Anjali Nayar and Hawa Essuman’s Silas, which premiered at TIFF and sold to Amazon.

In addition, he has script-edited fiction films such as Oliver Schmitz’s Hijack Stories, Wanuri Kahiu’s Kenyan Cannes hit Rafiki and Mickey Fonseca’s Mozambique feature film Resgate. He co-wrote Akin Omotoso’s 2019 Nigerian feature film The Ghost In The House Of Truth.

Brian is currently part of the writing team on a new Kenyan Netflix series Spin.