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With a career which stems over a decade in television BAFTA nominated and RTS award winning broadcaster and creative, Ayo Akinwolere experience in the industry has seen him work for all major UK channels and across every genre. Ayo is currently fronting sports programmes for the BBC, CBS USA and The Premier League.

Akinwolere won the Royal Television Society award for his documentary on Extremism in Birmingham the city where he grew up, and went on to front current affairs programme Inside Out for another 5 years.

Ayo was the first ever Black male Blue Peter presenter which saw him travel to over 118 different cities across the world. He was nominated for the prestigious Children's Bafta award for Presenter of the Year and Factual programme of the year in his 5 year tenure on the programme.

Ayo has fronted programmes for all the major Uk Channels and has gone on to write and present for BBC Radio 4, True Africa, and the Huffington Post.

In 2020 Ayo cooped both the Life Framer and British Photography awards for a series of photographs created in reply to the death of George Floyd. The images we taken by award winning photographer Natasha Pszenicki and depicted Ayo’s vision of what it was like to live as in immigrant in the UK

Using his vast experience in the industry and his love of storytelling Ayo has gone on to produce both MilkFirsts acquisitions so far: Wolf On the High Street and Yorkshire Cop: Police Racism and Me.

November 2022 will see Sheffield Hallam University award Ayo with an honorary doctorate for his services to Broadcasting and Racial Justice.

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Grierson, BAFTA and RTS nominated filmmaker – Alex Thomas makes distinctive, warm and authentic films, often exploring sensitive issues through communities that are often overlooked by mainstream media.

A trained architect – Alex discovered his passion for storytelling when building a school in rebel controlled Columbia – he picked up a camera to give his adoptive community an opportunity to share their story. This kickstarted a multimedia journalism career that saw Alex cover stories in all seven continents in the world – for NGOs like UNICEF and Save The Children and publications such as the New York Times and The Guardian.

Alex transitioned into TV as a reporter with Panorama “Panorama: Undercover Call Centre (BBC) and Dispatches: Can You Trust Your Nursery? (C4) – eventually securing his first commission and directorial debut in Stacey Dooley Investigates: Kids Selling Drugs Online (BBC3). In recent years he has directed a number of high profile series from the BANFF winning Who Are You Calling Fat (BBC2) to BAFTA nominated Rap Game (BBC3). In 2021 Alex secured Milk First’s first one hour documentary – Yorkshire Cop: Police, Racism and Me (Channel 4) A very personal authored story about his dad – the first black police officer in South Yorkshire – earning critical acclaim that included a 5 star review from the Daily Mail of all places. Alex is currently directing a ground breaking feature documentary for C4.

Committed to developing emerging filmmakers that better reflect the world we live in Alex has teamed up with C4 and We Are Parable to mentor the next generation. Alex is also a Freemantle “Breakthrough Leader”