Exclusive Interview: Dreamers filmmaker Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor “we need to change the conversation about immigration”
Through her production company, Joi Productions, Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor has produced films such as Rapman’s Blue Story starring Michael Ward and Aml Ameen’s Boxing Day, the UK’s first all-Black Christmas movie, starring Ameen, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. In 2020, the filmmaker was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow and a BAFTA Breakthrough professional, while Joi Productions received a BFI Vision Award. Her short film, For Love, produced with support from BBC Film, premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2021 and went on to screen at festivals globally, receiving a nomination for Best Short Film at SXSW in 2022.