THE A-BROTHERS ARE BACK AGAIN!
Afolabi and Adedeji Adesanya, the Adesanya Brothers (aka A-Brothers), are back again!
From the stable of A-Productions, they gave us such classics as
Vigilante (1988) and the capital market financed
Ose Sango – Sango’s Wand
(1991). They are teaming up, though not for a production but for
training and capacity building in the creative arts on the platform of
Sagamu Business and Arts Institute (SBAI).
The Adesanya brothers are filmmakers with over sixty (60) years of
on-the-job experience between them. Adedeji (aka DJ) is a renowned
cinematographer, still photographer, documentary filmmaker,
scriptwriter, producer and director, and a trainer. His screen credits
include Vigilante (co-writer and director),
Ose Sango – Sango’s Wand (producer); and
Uncommon Service (winner
of maiden Hilda Ogunbanjo Award for story/script, and Africast Award
2010 for BEST Documentary film). Others are television commercials, and
television documentaries shot in Egypt, Germany, and Senegal. Festivals
attended include New Films, New Directors, New York; and Los Angeles
International Film Festival, L.A., California, USA.
Adedeji had been a resource person at National Film Institute, Jos; and
he is currently Head of Department (HoD) Film & Television
Production (FTP) at PEFTI. He has also written many published articles
on the film and television industry.
Afolabi is a well established film auteur, photo-journalist, photo
artist, film historian, film critic, author, a technocrat and a trainer.
As a television director, he directed the award winning television
serial,
Family Circle, which won the BEST TELEVISION
DRAMA AWARD and BEST CHILD ACTOR AWARD at the 1998 REEL AWARD organised
by Encomium magazine. It also won the 1997/98 NIGERIAN MEDIA MERIT
AWARD, and the 1999, 8th edition of DAME AWARD (Television Production
category). He directed several episodes of
Everyday People,
Saints & Sinners, and
Domino. He worked with Ladi Ladebo on his video productions,
Collective Task and Thrift Collector, aka TC (a television series). Afolabi wrote and directed
Ose Sango
(1991), which won the Hubert Ogunde Foundation Award for the Best
Nigeria Film of the year (1992 maiden edition). His other screen credits
include television commercials (TVCs) and feature films (including
Ladebo’s
Pariah, Power and
Baba Zak). He was the executive producer of
Duty and
Zanani (both productions of the Nigerian Film Corporation).
His home video (Nollywood) credits include:
Asewo to re Mecca,
Colours of Love, Colours of Tomorrow,
First Love and
Tomori.
His articles; poems; book, film and art reviews had been published in
Africa, West Africa, Africa Woman, Ophelia, Entertainer, The Guardian
Newspapers (Lagos), Newswatch (of which he was the pioneer Photo
Editor) and Media Review. Mr. Adesanya was a contributor to Africa Film
& TV (yearbook and magazine). He is the author of The Nigerian
Film/TV Index, Nigerian Literary Index, Reel Words, and Reel Views.
He contributed to publications of the Nigerian Film Corporation such as
Operating Principles of the Film Industry: Towards a film Policy for
Nigeria, Nigerian Video Films (edited by Jonathan Haynes), Cinema and
Social Change in West Africa (edited by Jonathan Haynes and Onookome
Okome). His other book credits include
World Cinema: Diary of a Day (a British Film Institute, London
publication); Africa the Centenary of Cinema (a Pan-African Federation
of Filmmakers [FEPACI] publication), and Beyond the Screen Vol. 1 No. 1
(a journal of the National Film Institute).
In 1986 he had a solo photographic exhibition, sponsored by USIS and ILFORD, at USIS, Lagos, Nigeria.
Afolabi was a Resource Person at the National Film Institute, Jos, and
ITPAN Training School, Lagos, Nigeria. He has attended and covered such
film festivals as San Francisco International Film Festival; FESPACO;
Images D'Ailleurs (his film
OSE SANGO, was shown), Cannes,
Toronto International Film Festival; American Film Market and
Conferences, Santa Monica, California; Egypt International Film
Festival; Sithengi; Capetown International Film Festival; Durban
International Film Festival; Gao International Film Festival, India,
Berlinale; et al. He was a member of the 1992 Nigerian National Film
Festival Committee; and a member of the Jury that judged entries for the
NTA (Nigerian Television Authority) Adverts Awards, 1993.
He was Chairman FESPACO TV/Video Award Jury (2009), and the Organising Committee of ZUMA Film Festival 2005 – 2012).
Afolabi, who has worked extensively in both the private and public
sectors as an administrator and technocrat, is the Rector of Sagamu
Business and Arts Institute. He was the Managing Director/CEO of
Nigerian Film Corporation from 2005 to 2013; before then he was the
General Manager/CEO of West African Pictures Company Limited (from 2001
to 2005), a film distribution and exhibition company in the Odu’a Group.
The A-Brothers will be leading an eclectic team of knowledgeable and
experienced local and international resource persons drawn from the
field and academia of creative arts.
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