Alfons Adetuyi is a Canadian film and television director and producer.[1] A partner in the film and television production firm Inner City Films with his brothers Tom, Amos and Robert,[2] he is most noted as the director of the theatrical feature films High Chicago[3] and Love Jacked.[4]
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He has also directed episodes of the television series Jozi-H and Skin Deep, the miniseries Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle,[5] and the television drama film Survivors.[6] In 2024 he entered production on Dreams of the Moon, a coming-of-age drama about a young Black girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut.[7]
Originally from Sudbury, Ontario,[1] where he grew up as the son of a Nigerian immigrant who was the first Black employee of INCO's mining operations in the region,[7] he is an alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b "Greater Sudbury's cinematic family". Sudbury Star, April 25, 2009.
- ^ "Boosting home-grown film". Northern Life. July 28, 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
- ^ "A harvest of superheroes and others". Chicago Tribune, August 3, 2012.
- ^ "Not-so-great personality; Love Jacked is so cute it will make your teeth ache - to say nothing of your head". Montreal Gazette, December 7, 2018.
- ^ "Ekhaya an ambitious apartheid drama". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, January 23, 1997.
- ^ "These films deserve wider audience". Ottawa Citizen, October 1, 1994.
- ^ a b Vicki Gilhula, "Success: Catching up with filmmaker Alfons Adetuyi". Sudbury.com, March 20, 2024.
- ^ "Ten chosen for film lab". Ottawa Citizen, September 15, 1992.
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