Akintola Hanif's Page

Growing up in Brooklyn, AKINTOLA HANIF was no stranger to the fine arts scene. As a child Akintola frequented the L.E.S. gallery scene, introducing him to some of the most prominent artists of the time. Akintola’s first film, Freedom or Everybody Dies, a 5-minute mixed media short, was showcased in the kick-off for the Museum of African American Music and the Black Harvest International Film Festival. Currently, Akintola works as the resident documentarian for New Jersey’s YouthBuild Newark program and has recently created several short films denouncing drug use and gang activity amongst young people for the Central Ward Boys and Girls Club and the Clinton Hill Anti Drug Coalition. Akintola’s latest film, MORAL PANIC: More Heat Than Light (produced by the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice) debuted at the Newark Museum on May 13th 2008.