Reggie Yates is an award winning Writer / Director from London.

With the theatrical release of his debut feature film PIRATES, Yates achieved a long held dream of sharing his version of London with the world. This BBC Film/BFI coming-of-age comedy is a love letter to the UK Garage scene and a time capsule for 90’s London. Recently acquired by NETFLIX, PIRATES is now streaming and officially selected at South By South West Film Festival.

Three decades in, Reggie’s career began as a child actor. This led to a decade of bouncing from national radio host to actor and eventually fronting Saturday night prime time TV. A pivot into documentary making changed things for good as authentic storytelling became a priority.

In the last decade, Reggie has become synonymous with critically acclaimed documentaries. His films include the BBC3 Extreme series including Reggie Yates: Extreme Russia, Extreme South Africa and Extreme UK which are all available to a worldwide audience on Netflix. In 2016, Reggie was awarded Best Presenter for the critically acclaimed Extreme Russia at the Royal Television Society Awards, Best Factual Programme at the Edinburgh TV Festival, and Best Multi-channel Programme at the Broadcast Awards.

2017 saw his first photography exhibition at The Tate Modern, the release of his debut book ‘Unseen’ with Penguin Random House and subsequent documentaries ‘Grenfell Tower’s Hidden Victims’ and ‘TV’s black renaissance’ charting the rise of black voices in Hollywood all receiving critical acclaim.

Mining the learnings from photography and factual storytelling, Reggie found his voice in writing as his first short film Patriarch aired on Channel 4 as part of their Random Acts season and another of his films, Shelter, aired on BBC iPlayer in September 2017. His second short film, DATE NIGHT starring Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya, won best UK Short at the London Independent Film Festival.

Graduating from short form to a TV movie, Yates wrote and produced ‘Make Me Famous’ for the BBC. The critically acclaimed film unpacked the relationship between reality TV stars, mental health and suicide.

Drawing inspiration from first hand experiences on set as an actor and around the world as a documentary maker, authenticity is at the core of everything Reggie creates creating a voice uniquely his own.