Alfons Adetuyi is a Canadian film and television director and producer."Greater Sudbury's cinematic family". Sudbury Star, April 25, 2009. A partner in the film and television production firm Inner City Films with his brothers Tom, Amos and Robert, he is most noted as the director of the theatrical feature films High Chicago"A harvest of superheroes and others". Chicago Tribune, August 3, 2012. and Love Jacked."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.
He has also directed episodes of the television series Jozi-H and Skin Deep, the miniseries Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle,"Ekhaya an ambitious apartheid drama". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, January 23, 1997. and the television drama film Survivors."These films deserve wider audience". Ottawa Citizen, October 1, 1994. 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.Vicki Gilhula, "Success: Catching up with filmmaker Alfons Adetuyi". Sudbury.com, March 20, 2024.
Originally from Sudbury, Ontario, 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, he is an alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre."Ten chosen for film lab". Ottawa Citizen, September 15, 1992.
References
External links