Zeb Achonu

Film & TV Editor

Award winning, London based freelance film and TV editor. With over twenty years experience in the broadcast industry, I have worked across various genres but currently focus on documentary and drama.

Winner of the WFTV & Molinaire Post Production Award in December 2024.

My recent feature documentary, White Nanny Black Child, won the BAFTA TV Award for Specialist Factual, and RTS Award for history in 2024. The film explored an untold part of UK history when over 70,000 children from West African families were unofficially fostered without regulation into white British families between the 1950s and 1990s.

Other recent work has included Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch (BBC2), Jimmy Akingbola: Handle With Care (ITV), David Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count (Channel 4), Where Have All The Lesbians Gone? (Channel 4), and a number of music docs including the Netflix 4- part series, Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip Hop; a 3 part series covering Jungle, UKG and Grime, Made In Britain (1Xtra/ iPlayer); and work on forthcoming music doc about Dizzee Rascal, Man In Da Dorner (DocHearts).

Represented by Sara Putt Associates for all editing work, and by The Cutting Room for all edit consulting.

I am a member of the British Film Editors guild, and a member of BAFTA. I also regularly speak on panels about post production, diversity and navigating the industry.

Selected for Berlinale Talents 2024

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