Alfons Adetuyi

Alfons Adetuyi
Born
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Occupations
  • Film director
  • television director
  • producer
RelativesRobert Adetuyi (brother)

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]

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]

  1. ^ a b "Greater Sudbury's cinematic family". Sudbury Star, April 25, 2009.
  2. ^ "Boosting home-grown film". Northern Life. July 28, 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  3. ^ "A harvest of superheroes and others". Chicago Tribune, August 3, 2012.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Ekhaya an ambitious apartheid drama". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, January 23, 1997.
  6. ^ "These films deserve wider audience". Ottawa Citizen, October 1, 1994.
  7. ^ a b Vicki Gilhula, "Success: Catching up with filmmaker Alfons Adetuyi". Sudbury.com, March 20, 2024.
  8. ^ "Ten chosen for film lab". Ottawa Citizen, September 15, 1992.