Ibra Ake is a Nigerian-American director, writer, artist and creative director, working across music, television, advertising and photography. He’s developed a reputation for thinking outside the box, creating outlandish, standout work for some of America’s biggest artists. After working at a photo agency, Ibra emerged as a photographer in New York, shooting for several publications including Vogue, Nylon, and New York magazine. During this period, he connected with Donald Glover on a photoshoot, and eventually became his creative director. He was the Executive Producer of Glover’s debut feature, ‘Guava Island’, and the creative producer of the Grammy award-winning music video, ‘This is America’. In the past few years, Ibra’s creative focus has been on directing. He’s helmed the adidas-sponsored content series ‘Donald Glover Presents’, the ‘Pantheon’ commercial for Spotify, ‘Play With Gratitude’ for Nike, and a short film for fashion brand Union. As well as a boundary-breaking commercial for H&M Edition starring Jon Boyega, presented almost entirely in Nigerian Yoruba. He also directed episodes of Beyoncé’s visual album ‘Black is King’ –– including ‘Brown Skin Girl,’ ‘Water’ and ’Keys to the Kingdom’. Recently, Ibra wrote and directed episodes in Seasons 3 and 4 of ‘Atlanta’. He was an Executive Producer on Donald Glover’s Amazon series ‘Swarm’, and also directed two episodes. One of which starred Billie Eilish, in her acting debut. Ibra was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He is currently based in Paris.