Biography
Joseph a. Adesunloye is an award-winning British-Nigerian writer/director whose work crosses film and TV. He was selected for Locarno Film Festival’s Locarno Pro: First Look on UK Film 2023 programme with his new feature VANILLA, starring Yann Gaël (1899, Saloum) and James Smith (The Favourite, The Thick of It).
Joseph’s debut feature WHITE COLOUR BLACK screened in competition and was nominated for the BFI IWC Schaffhausen Filmmakers Bursary Award at the 60th BFI London Film Festival. In 2017 Joseph was longlisted ‘Best Debut Screenwriter’ at BIFA.
His second feature FACES premiered at the Durban International Film Festival in 2018, where it was nominated for ‘Best International Feature.' FACES also won ‘Best Feature’ at the Durban LGBT Film Festival. The film stars Terry Pheto from Oscar-winning TSOTSI.
Joseph has written several commissioned TV scripts and currently has several TV projects in development.
Joseph also guest lectures at the University of the Arts London, for the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and at the National Film & Television School (NFTS).
He is a member of BAFTA and Directors UK and has been a trustee at the Film and TV Charity since 2019. Joseph co-chairs the Film and TV Charity’s Inclusivity Committee with playwright and screenwriter Juliet Gilkes Romero.