Yolande Thame
I write where story meets place, and produce what the script asks for — not the other way around.
Yolande Thame
Biography
Yolande Thame is a writer and producer working across film, immersive media, and cultural infrastructure. She is currently developing her debut original feature film alongside a slate of projects that span multiple formats and territories.
Her production design credits include Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Marvel Studios), The Founder (FilmNation Entertainment), Children of Blood and Bone (Fox 2000), Commonwealth VR, and Museum of Diversity Jamaica.
She co-founded Smadi.tv, a multilingual streaming platform serving diaspora audiences across 49 countries. She is based between Lisbon and London.
Credentials
Selected Film Credits
IP & Development
On work,
authorship,
and place.
These are not principles adopted for a website. They are the logic of two decades of decisions — on which projects to take, how to collaborate, and what it means to build something that lasts beyond the production.
“The design of a space is an argument about whose story gets told and how it feels to be inside it.”
On the politics of production design — from two decades of work on films that reshape how audiences understand identity, history, and the built world.
“Wakanda was not a fantasy. It was a proof of concept for what intentional world-building looks like when the people doing it are inside the culture.”
On Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and the Afro-Futurism movement — a film that influenced urban planning, fashion, architecture, and the question of who gets to imagine the future.
“I am not interested in making films for studios that shelf them. I am interested in making films that find their audience and stay.”
On the original feature in development and the Smadi.tv platform — building distribution infrastructure alongside the creative work, so neither depends on the other.
The films she has built
helped define
Afro-Futurism.
Read the Wakanda Case Study →
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever did not arrive in a vacuum. It was the product of deliberate, culturally grounded production design — decisions about texture, material, proportion, and color that carried the weight of a political argument. Cities have been redesigned. Communities have been built. A movement has been named. Yolande Thame’s hands were on the sets that made those images possible.
Original IP
Now building
what she wants
to exist.
The original feature in development is a culmination of a career spent understanding what makes a story land on a screen and with the audience who goes on the journey with the characters.
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Collaborations welcome.
If you think there’s a fit, the contact form is the right next step.