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The Adeboye Brothers

David and Matthew Adeboye are an Atlanta-based director duo dedicated to preserving and elevating Black stories through film, archives, and cultural documentaries. They weave history together with contemporary artistry, bringing untold stories to the screen with depth, beauty, and cultural truth.

Their work has taken them across the city's leading cultural institutions, including collaborations with the High Museum of Art and the Alliance Theatre, and with acclaimed artists such as Pearl Cleage, Zaron Burnett, Lauri Stallings, and Shamel Pitts. Their feature documentary Live at Club Zebra revives the legendary Atlanta speakeasy performance series Cleage and Burnett created in the 1980s, drawing on archival footage preserved at Emory University's Rose Library. The film has screened at the Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta Contemporary, Spelman College, and the High Museum, and has been broadcast on PBS. They also directed Sit-in, an animated short written by Cleage, and their film Black Hole was presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

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The brothers have lectured at Spelman College and Georgia Tech, and their work has been featured in the New York Times, Atlanta Magazine, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. They also appear in Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes (MIT Press, 2025) by Lynn Gamwell, and have received the Design Is Human Award. With roots in Atlanta's artistic history through their grandmother, painter Lee Lowe, the Adeboye Brothers carry that legacy forward with every film, honoring the artists and movements that shaped the city.

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