Dark Pictures is a boutique multimedia studio working at the intersection of content, culture and commerce, dedicated to creating bold, distinctive and uncompromising work that explores the dark side of human nature.  Based in London, Dark Pictures collaborates with exceptional creative talent working across the audiovisual spectrum, to produce affecting cultural moments for worldwide audiences that inform, inspire and entertain.

Dark Pictures has recently produced the feature film, ZERO, a collaboration with BAFTA nominated filmmaker Faye Gilbert, commissioned through Microwave (Film London, BBC Film and the BFI).  The Company has also recently completed Elliot Barnes-Worrell's sci-fi short DIGGING, part of Film4, Fruit Tree Media and the BFI Young Audiences Content Fund collection for broadcast in 2021.  Dark Pictures is gearing up for production on David Alexander's debut feature FREE (BFI) in autumn 2021.  The Company's Uncertain Kingdom funded short ISAAC AND THE RAM screened at BFI Flare this spring.  Dark Pictures has a further slate of compelling projects in development with emerging and established writers, filmmakers and visual artists, including George Amponsah, Jason Bradbury, Nosa Eke, Arthur Japin, Adeyemi Michael, Richard Mosse and Sara Pantoli, amongst others.

Dark Pictures was founded by Producer Yaw Basoah.  In recent years Yaw has been named a Screen Star of Tomorrow, received a BFI Vision Award, graduated from the Ashridge Executive MBA for the Creative Industries as the BFI/Headstart Scholar, and has been selected for several prominent national and international professional development initiatives.  Yaw sits on the advisory board for Raising Films, is a member of PACT's Film Policy Group and is mentored by Oscar winning director and Turner Prize winning visual artist, Sir Steve McQueen CBE.