John Oluwole Adekoje
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
John Oluwole ADEkoje is a graduate of Humboldt State University where
he earned a MFA in Dramatic Writing and a MA in Film Production. John's
awards include being a national award winner of The Kennedy Center's
ACTF Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award for the play StreetHawker; as
well as the 2006 recipient of The Roxbury Film Festival's Emerging
local Filmmaker award for the documentary "Street Soldiers", which also
showed at the Pan African Film Festival in Cannes, France, and The
World Film Festival-Montreal. Most recently John was the winner of the
National Tri Annual New Play Competition for Professional Writers, has
received the Brother Thomas Fellowship Award for his documentary
"Street Soldiers" and is a 2009-2010 Surdna Fellow.