About Carbon Pictures
Founded by Abiola Rufai-Awojide and Elizabeth Rufai, Carbon Pictures is a London-based production company set up with the aim of producing distinct and ambitious narratives for Film and High-End Television.
Team
Abiola Rufai-Awojide
Elizabeth Rufai
Abiola and Elizabeth form a producing duo that reflects a shared eclectic taste, which has been developed over a range of professional experiences across their careers. Between them is a broad creative background across features, high-end television, and short films, working with and within companies such as BBC Film, BFI Network, Channel 4, Film4, Lionsgate UK, Sid Gentle Films and Somesuch. Together, they were selected as 2024 Screen Stars of Tomorrow.
Over the last few years, they have established a notable familiarity with stories that stand out.
Abiola worked as co-producer and producer on two consecutive series of the multi-award-winning Disney+ show ‘Extraordinary’ (2023), which won the 2024 Royal Television Society Programme Award for Scripted Comedy, and went on to be nominated for the 2024 TV BAFTA Scripted Comedy award. Abiola was also Associate Producer on the multi-BAFTA nominated ‘How To Have Sex’ (2023), directed by Molly Manning Walker, which was awarded the
Un Certain Regard prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
Elizabeth, a 2023 graduate of the National Film and Television School’s Producing MA, produced the 2024 BAFTA winning short ‘Jellyfish and Lobster’ (2023), written and directed by Yasmin Afifi. ‘Jellyfish and Lobster’ is in development as a feature film as part of the Carbon slate. Elizabeth also worked as Associate Producer on Harris Dickinson’s feature directorial debut and Cannes 2025 Un Certain Regard selection, ‘Urchin’.
Through Carbon Pictures, Abiola and Elizabeth are developing a slate of projects that reflect an affinity towards cross-cultural stories and a desire to develop narratives that thrive in specificity but also great potential for global reach.
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