About
Joseph a. Adesunloye is an award-winning British/Nigerian writer-director-producer whose work crosses film and TV.
His cinematic feature documentary 'Rotimi, Becoming', was selected for the Sheffield Doc Fest, Queer Realities Directors Lab and received the BFI Doc Society RAD development fund in 2024. The film journeys into the life and work of legendary Nigerian-British artist and photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode.
Joseph was selected for Locarno Film Festival’s - Locarno Pro First Look on UK Film 2023, for his new feature VANILLA starring Yann Gaël (1899, Gladiator II) and James Smith (The Favourite, The Thick of It).
He 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’, and won ‘Best Feature’ at the Durban LGBT Film Festival; the film stars Terry Pheto from Oscar winning Tsotsi.
He has written several commissioned TV scripts and currently has several TV projects in development.
Joseph guest lectures at the University of the Arts London and for the NYU Tisch School of the Arts 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.
