Seyi Adebanjo, MFA, is a Queer Gender-Non-Conforming Nigerian artist who raises awareness around social issues through video. Seyi’s work exists at the intersection of art, imagination, ritual, and politics. Seyi is a 2023 Sundance Institute Trans Possibilities Intensive Fellow. 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 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 Afromystic is 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.