Biography

Adrian Wallace is a writer-director-actor from Toronto. He won a 2021 Canadian Screen Award for 'Best Direction in a Docuseries', for his latest documentary, Black Sun -- which premiered on CBC Television, and was acquired by CBC Gem as part of the docuseries "Being Black in Toronto". Adrian is a multi-graduate who studied dramatic arts, comedy writing, acting, and film and television production. While having worked with TV networks like APTN and MTV, his independently produced work has played at film festivals worldwide, and distributed via Amazon Prime. As the creator-writer-director and co-lead of the award-winning web series, "Courtside", it has been screened globally, winning an 'Audience Choice Award' at the 2017 Miami WebFest, and claiming 'Best Web Series' at the 2018 Toronto Nollywood International Film Festival. Adrian was accepted into Reelworld's Emerging 20 and Level UP Program partnered with Rogers, Shaftesbury Productions and is a TIFF Filmmaker Lab alumnus.
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