a queer Nigerian-American filmmaker and the Atlanta Film Society’s incoming Filmmaker in Residence (Sept 2025-Mar 2027). She makes narratives about the American South and Black diasporic domestic life to create, proliferate, and archive visuals of community interdependence. 

Adesola was a 2024 Directing Fellow at the Visionary Justice Lab. There, she wrote and directed “Sister Salad Days,” her magical realist family drama which won Best Georgia Short at the 2025 Atlanta Film Festival. Adesola’s work has been programmed at Lincoln Center (32nd New York African Film Festival), Millenium Film, and distributed by No Budge. She is an East Coast Reporter at Letterboxd, a Producer’s Assistant at Kashif Film, and Kino Film Collective programmer. 

Adesola is currently developing her Southern rave film “Marigold Leaves Her Body” which won the Best Short Script at the 2025 Atlanta Film Festival, the 2024 Best Narrative Short Script Award at Out on Film Festival and was a finalist for the South Pitch Grant at the 2024 New Orleans Film Festival.