---
name: "Anna-Maria Ssemuyaba"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anna-maria-ssemuyaba"
fi1m_id: "anna-maria-ssemuyaba"
imdb_id: "nm7870269"
tmdb_id: 4169939
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T00:17:20.432007+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Anna-Maria Ssemuyaba

## Identity

Anna-Maria Ssemuyaba

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anna-maria-ssemuyaba
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anna-maria-ssemuyaba
- **IMDb ID:** nm7870269
- **TMDB ID:** 4169939
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7870269/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4169939

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7870269/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4169939

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Hijack*](https://film.one/tv/hijack.md) (66)

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## Biography

Anna Ssemuyaba is a British screenwriter. She began working in television development at the age of 17 as a runner for Dangerous Films. She progressed through film production roles while studying English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, where she also contributed to the Times Literary Supplement.

She was selected for the BBC Production Trainee programme, working in BBC Drama and as a producer on Front Row for Radio 4. After leaving the BBC she worked in development and as a script editor on John Ridley’s Guerrilla (2017) and Lucy Kirkwood’s Adult Material. Her short film I Don’t Want to Talk About This was broadcast by ITV in 2020.

Ssemuyaba has written episodes of Upload (2020–2022), Hijack (2023), The Buccaneers (2023) and Smothered (2023). She has contributed to writers’ rooms and is developing projects with several UK broadcasters and studios.

*Sources: casarotto.co.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hijack* (2023), Fi1m 66, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/hijack.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Greta Gerwig* (2024), Actor
- *The Buccaneers* (2023), series, Writer
- *Hijack* (2023), series, Writer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/hijack.md)
- *Unsaid Stories* (2020), series, Writer
- *Upload* (2020), series, Writer

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