Director Seyi Peter-Thomas grew up in London before moving stateside to Washington, D.C., where he attended the prestigious Duke Ellington School of Arts. His early passion for filmmaking led him to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. There, his sense for striking visual storytelling and strong characterizations began to emerge. “I am really fascinated by visual storytelling with a comedic edge,” Seyi says. “I think of each piece of work as its own small film.

Seyi developed an eclectic cross-genre reel, including an Emmy Award-winning Black History Month campaign for Nickelodeon exploring the history of Charleston, S.C. His striking branded short for Motionpoems based on the poem “How Do  You Raise a Black Child?,” garnered awards from the One Show, Webbys, AICP NEXT and shots. Other highlights are a powerful PSA campaign for Youth Ambassadors honored by the One Show, which takes a very original approach to addressing the tough life problems city kids face every day, and a quirky law-office spoof with Kevin Durant for Sprint.

Seyi began producing on-air promos at MTV before switching to writing and directing. Additional work includes a series of spots for a VMA Geico tie-in with singer Daya, his MTV Digital Abuse Initiative which became the centerpiece of President Obama’s Conference on Bullying Prevention, and his popular promo for MTV’s The Hard Times of RJ Berger was expertly shot on the PHANTOM high-speed digital camera system with Hawk anamorphic lenses, and won a PromaxBDA Gold.