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Nigerian-American

Yoruba

www.linkedin.com/in/adetoromakinde

@iamAdetoro

A first-generation Nigerian-American, Adetoro Makinde is an award-winning filmmaker, and graduate of Georgetown University and Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Her companies Backdoor Films, and its social impact subsidiary Hyphenate Africa, produced the Sundance films WHOA, IN TIME, A GOOD DAY TO BE BLACK AND SEXY, and SADLA. Adetoro served as Line Producer on the Netflix and Leonardo DiCaprio produced documentary, STRUGGLE: THE LIFE AND LOST ART OF SZUKALSKI, Impact Producer in South Africa of the acclaimed HBO film THE TALE, and Impact Strategist for Participant Media’s THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND. Current projects include the Hurricane Katrina biopic, THE AMERICAN CAN, and food justice documentary ROOTED. Adetoro is a former educator at the Creative Arts Team, an empowerment through the arts youth program, developed at New York University. Her honors include fellowships from the Facebook SEEN Independent Filmmaker Program, Film Indpendent Project Involve, The Blackhouse Multicultural Producers Lab, Made in NY, as well as a grant recipient of the Ford Foundation, and HBO Corporate and Social Responsibility. She is the former Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Film Fatales, a member of Brown Girl Doc Mafia, and is the current President and Co-Founder of Women Independent Producers.

"I am the me I chose to be" ~ Sidney Poitier