Vanilla

Vanilla.

Bastien and Matt, an interracial gay couple, celebrate their third anniversary by escaping to sunny Barcelona. With a beautiful house and proximity to the beach, they hope to mend their rocky relationship after Bastien’s recent infidelity with a woman. Matt struggles to move past it, affecting his libido, but they both attempt to come together and communicate honestly. However, their efforts are disrupted by the arrival of Florent, a Queer Englishman living in Spain, who catches Bastien’s eye and throws a spanner in the works.

Director.

Joseph A. Adesunloye is an award winning British-Nigerian producer/writer/director. He was selected for Locarno Film Festival’s – Locarno Pro First Look on UK Film 2023, for his new feature Vanilla, starring Yann Gaël (1899, Saloum) and James Smith (The Favourite, The Thick of It). Joseph was nominated for the BFI IWC Schaffhausen Filmmakers Bursary Award at the 60th BFI London Film Festival. In 2017, Joseph was longlisted ‘Best Debut Screenwriter’ at BIFA. His second feature Faces premiered at the Durban International Film Festival in 2018, where it was nominated for Best International Feature, and won Best Feature at the Durban LGBT Film Festival; the film stars Terry Pheto from Oscar winning Tsotsi. Joseph guest lectures at the University of the Arts London and for the NYU Tisch School of the Arts at the National Film & Television School (NFTS). He is a member of BAFTA and Directors UK and has been a trustee at the Film and TV Charity since 2019. Joseph Co-chairs the Film and TV Charity’s Inclusivity Committee with playwright and screenwriter Juliet Gilkes Romero.