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Daniel Ademinokan
Daniel Ademinokan is a Nigerian-born film and TV director, screenwriter, and film producer. He has worked as a screenwriter and in postproduction in Nollywood since the late 1990s but he rose to prominence in 2010 as director of the feature film Black Friday . He is the CEO and co-founder of Index Two Studios LLC which he co-owned with ex-wife Stella Damasus. After their divorce in 2020, Ademinokan launched Leon Global Media, LLC with the release of the feature film GONE. He currently lives in Houston, Texas.[1][2][3][4] EducationAdeminokan earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science in Nigeria. After that, he moved to the United States where he studied filmmaking at the Digital Film Academy in New York. He went on to study Digital Cinematography at the New York Film Academy.[1] CareerAdeminokan started as a scriptwriter in Nollywood and wrote several screenplays that became hits in the 1990s.[2] He became known with his movie Black Friday which was nominated for five different awards at the Africa Movie Academy Awards.[1] His 2010 short film No Jersey, No Match starred Gabriel Afolayan and won the Best Short Film award at the Abuja International Film Festival. It was later screened at the Hoboken Film Festival in New Jersey. Personal lifeAdeminokan married Doris Simeon in 2008 and divorced her in 2011. He and Doris have a son born in 2008. Ademinokan married Stella Damasus in 2012,[3] and they divorced in 2020.[5] Filmography
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