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Jay Franklyn Jituboh

Birthplace
Delta state, Nigeria
Occupation
Director, Producer, Writer, Author, Entrepreneur, Actor, Editor, Cinematographer, Casting Director, Second Unit Or Assistant Director, Location Management
AKA
J. Franklyn
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Biography

EARLY LIFE

Jay Franklyn Jituboh (Born February 19th) is a Nigerian filmmaker, Author and Entrepreneur from Delta state, 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 In 2004, he wrote his first book, "The Sin Theory" and a couple of other short stories (unpublished).

CAREER

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. He has since produced and directed two film for TV projects (Before Dawn - 2021) and (Stuck - 2022). He is working on his sophomore feature titled "The Origin".

Filmography

No filmography available for this person yet.

Box Office

Weekly Top Grossing
1

3 Cold Dishes

₦5,331,351.00

Week 51
2

Gingerrr

₦12,727,775.00

Week 47
3

Gingerrr

₦21,139,500.00

Week 46
4

The Herd

₦16,977,673.00

Week 46
5

3 Cold Dishes

₦15,261,240.00

Week 46

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