Walli Ullah

WORK HISTORY

ABOUT WALLI ULLAH

Walli is both honoured and proud to have been awarded an MBE in the recent Queen\'s Birthday Honours for services to the UK creative economy and for overseas investment in the UK. Walli is currently one of the founders of Emu Films.EMU FILMS are a truly independent production company synonymous with smart, authored story telling, most recently demonstrated through the groundbreaking SMALL AXE anthology of five films.EMU are built on a reputation of realising the work of established visionary film makers, such as Terence Davies and Steve McQueen, whilst simutaneously enabling distinct new voices to gain International success. Every debut film maker working with EMU has achieved major film festival or award recognition. CATCH ME DADDY premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, THE GOOB at Venice, THE SHOW at SXSW, DIRTY GOD at Sundance and JAWBONE earned a BAFTA nomination for best debut feature. EMU’s first four films received a combined total of twenty BIFA & BAFTA nominations amongst multiple international festival awards. EMU\'s most recent release \"Benediction\" enjoyed huge festival success winning best screenplay at San Sebastian. Walli is a successful entrepreneur with over 30 years experience in Film, TV and Digital Media. Walli has been at the forefront of developments in digital media and was an early pioneer of VOD and IPTV Most recently responsible for the growth and sale of a global entertainment content production and distribution company. Walli successfully built the company to a multi-million pound turnover with staff and offices around the world. After the sale of IFE Walli went to set up Emu Films.