USA and Nigeria

Adesola Thomas is an Atlanta-raised, queer Nigerian-American writer-director and 1st AD. She makes films about Southern subcultures and the Black diaspora to examine care and interdependence as essential practices for a livable world. Adesola's work has screened at Diversity at Cannes in France, Deeper Than Movies in London, Cinema Souterrain and Artists Forum in Atlanta. She is a 2024: Georgia Film Impact Grant Winner, Bleecker Street BIPOC Mentorship Fellow, 2x Sundance Press Inclusion Fellow, and Resisting Narratives of Erasure Directing Fellow at the Visionary Justice Lab in Atlanta where she recently completed her dramatic magical realist short, Sister Salad Days. Her forthcoming punk rave film, Marigold Leaves Her Body won the Best Narrative Short Script Award at Atlanta's 2024 Out on Film Festival and was a finalist for the South Pitch Narrative competition at the 2024 New Orleans Film Festival. Adesola is an East Coast Reporter for Letterboxd (LB) and a Producer’s Assistant at Kashif Incubator where she supports Veronica Nickels (Moonlight), Chanelle Elaine and Kristie Lutz (First Match).

Filmography

Sister Salad Days (2024)
Marigold Leaves Her Body (2023)