Seyi Adebanjo

Seyi Adebanjo

Seyi is a 2024 Sundance Documentary Film Program Awardee, a 2023 Sundance Institute Trans Possibilities Intensive Fellow and serves on the faculty of New York University. Seyi has received a Fatales Forward: Trans Stories Fellowship, an NYSCA Individual Artist Grant , and residency with The Laundromat Project.  Seyi is a 2022 Semi-Finalist for the Sundance Humanities Sustainability Fellowship. Seyi’s projects include “Honor Black Trans Womxn!” a call to center and celebrate Black Trans Womxn and “I AM! We Are Here!,” which illuminates the spirit and joy of LGBTQ People of Color in the Bronx. Seyi’s award winning documentaries “Justice for Islan Nettles” has screened on PBS Channel 13, and “Ọya: Something Happened On The Way To West Africa continues to screen globally.

Seyi’s latest project is Afromystic a lyrical documentary that follows LGBTQ Yorùbá practitioners across the waters of Nigeria, Brazil, and the United States in a quest for post-colonial liberation--by way of indigenous religion. Afromystic weaves animated Queer & Trans Òrìṣà mythology, poetry, theater and ritual to celebrate the lives of these practitioners. Seyi’s work exists at the intersection of art, imagination, ritual and politics.