#7: Know Your Worth

Writer & Director, Koby Adom

In this conversation we talk to writer/director Koby Adom. We discuss the power of short films, how he came to direct episodes of British crime drama series Top Boy, and his new venture in to the commercial landscape.

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.

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 Adom came on and gave us some solid words of wisdom. Here are some key sound bites.

“I’ve said no a lot because I haven’t been through what I’ve been through in life and acquired this blessing to just use it for anything.”

“You get these scripts sent to you written by a middle class white guy talking about the ends and it’s like…bro, you’re just flinging clericalism left right and centre that don’t make sense and you want me to come and make sense of it for you because I’m black? It’s just…lazy”

#7: Know Your Worth

Writer & Director, Koby Adom

Koby Adom came on and gave us some solid words of wisdom. Here are some key sound bites.

“I’ve said no a lot because I haven’t been through what I’ve been through in life and acquired this blessing to just use it for anything.”

“You get these scripts sent to you written by a middle class white guy talking about the ends and it’s like…bro, you’re just flinging clericalism left right and centre that don’t make sense and you want me to come and make sense of it for you because I’m black? It’s just…lazy”

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