Joseph A. Adesunloye is British-Nigerian filmmaker, television director and writer, known for his 2016 feature film White Colour Black . [1] [2] [3]
Joseph A. Adesunloye is British-Nigerian filmmaker, television director and writer, known for his 2016 feature film White Colour Black . [1] [2] [3]
In 2017, Joseph was longlisted ‘Best Debut Screenwriter’ for the prestigious BIFA Awards (British Independent Film Awards) [4] where his film White Colour Black [5] [6] [7] was longlisted for a total of two Awards including the category of 'Most Promising New Comer' for the film's star Dudley O’Shaughnessy.
White Colour Black was also nominated at the 2017 BFI London Film Festival and Adesunloye for the BFI IWC Schaffhausen Filmmakers Bursary Award 2016. [8] White Colour Black appeared at the Baltimore International Black Film Festival 2017 winning for Best International Feature and Best Narrative Feature. Adesunloye received the Oscar Micheaux Award for directing.
He is currently[ when? ] completing postproduction work on his second feature film Faces which stars Terry Pheto [9]
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