Jay Franklyn Jituboh

Jay Franklyn Jituboh (Born February 19th) is a Nigerian filmmaker, Author and Entrepreneur from Delta state. His father Ijaw and his mother Igbo, born and raised in the southern part of Nigeria. As a teenager, he had a passion for art, technology and storytelling; he spent most of his time creating characters, drawing comic books, learning computer applications and writing short stories. In 2004, he wrote his first book, "The Sin Theory" and a couple of other short stories (unpublished). He always had a passion for film and cinematography and in 2011; he made his transition from a novelist to a screenwriter, when he started a full circle entertainment company called "5-6-7 Entertainment", under which he wrote his first TV series titled "The Label" with 13 episodes. In 2012, he wrote his first feature length film titled "Keeping Up" and a short film titled "Caught", which he later went on to produce and direct in March 2013. The movie had over two thousand (2000) mobile downloads in the first 18 hours of release. He has since then released a couple of documentaries including "Sensitive Skin", "Keepers Of The Sun", a couple of short films and Film for TV (Dise's Secret - 2015), (Once Upon a Wish - 2015) and music videos. In 2014, He directed a short film Titled "Once" in the Afrinolly Cinema4Change project; a collaboration between Afrinolly and Ford Foundation. The film deals with religious intolerance. In 2016 he released his first feature length movie in the Nigerian Box office titled Dinner, which will end up on the top 10 highest grossing movies for 2016, and will later on become the first Nigerian film with a theatrical visa to screen commercially in France.