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Yoruba Saxon Productions

Los Angeles, California(approximate location)

Yoruba Saxon is a talent-led production company, focused on values-based content, across all platforms and for all quadrants, with an aim to shift the culture and color outside the lines. As artists and filmmakers, we are committed to expressing our love of storytelling and passion for people through entertainment for a global audience.

From their site

Images from Yoruba Saxon Productions’s own website.

Who works there

  • David OyelowoCo-Founder
  • Jessica OyelowoCo-Founder
  • Lisa BruceProducing Partner
  • Amanda N'DukaCreative Executive
  • Emilio MazariegosCreative Executive
  • Darnell RheaExecutive Assistant

Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film
LocationLos Angeles, California
Websiteyorubasaxon.com
Emailinfo@yorubasaxon.com
Social
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Statusactive2026 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
6.5IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

7 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Emmys0of3nominations0%

19 wins from 65 nominations across all awards

Box office
$7m

Combined US gross, 4 of 12 titles

Lawmen: Bass Reeves poster
Highest rated
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
2023
7.314,707 votes
Captive poster
Lowest rated
Captive
2015
5.47,517 votes
Mostly
drama, documentary, adventure
Active
2014–2026
Rotten Tomatoes
60%
Best known for
A United Kingdom

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 11 of 12 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
22 seasons

2023–2025

Networks
  • Apple TV1
  • Paramount+1

Across 2 series matched to TMDB, 18 episodes.

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits12 of 15

10 films · 2 TV titles

Showing 12 of 15 titles on record.

Titles per year12 titles · busiest 2016 with 2

12 titles across 13 years, averaging 0.9 a year. The last five years hold at 1.0 a year. 4 of those 13 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time7 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
468their average 6.5200020102020

Their 2020s work is their strongest, averaging 6.6 across 4 titles. 2 of 7 rated titles sit above their 6.5 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Notable cast
  • David Oyelowo7
Genres
  • Drama7 of 11
  • Documentary2 of 11
  • Adventure2 of 11
  • Biography2 of 11
  • Crime2 of 11

Names appearing on two or more of Yoruba Saxon Productions’s produced titles, across the 11 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with10 companies

Companies that appear alongside Yoruba Saxon Productions on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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