a Yoruba-American filmmaker and the Atlanta Film Society’s Filmmaker in Residence (2025-2027). In her fiction work, Adesola archives contemporary Black diasporic life in the American South through explorations of belonging, liveability, and pleasure. Adesola was selected for Lincoln Center’s Artist’s Academy at the 63rd NYFF and named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2025.

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), Metrograph, Millenium Film, and distributed by No Budge. She is an East Coast Reporter at Letterboxd, the Artistic Coordinator at Kashif Film, and a community film 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.