Somto Ajuluchukwu born February 24th, 1991 is an award winning yet emerging Animation Film Maker & Entertainment Executive with a background in Economics from Crawford University.
He began his professional career as a film maker in 2014 after founding Vortex Studios (Studio of the Year Lagos Comic Con 2016, 2017) an animation and comic book company where he Directed and produced his first short animated film in 2016 called Town Crier, and has since then produced Orange City (2019) which traveled across 26 countries in 4 continents and most recently GLYCH (2022) which served as opening film at the RENDACON ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL (2022) Lagos, Nigeria.
In 2017 comic-book character published by Vortex Comics Strike Guard was listed 15 most influential black super heroes in the world by CBR (Comic Book Resources) and later produced as a 6 minute animated short film featured on VICE & Design Indaba in 2017.
Somto Ajuluchukwu has directed and produced multiple animated music videos for Afrobeat stars such (REMA, WIZKID) and International acts (BRENT FAIYAZ and WALSHY FIRE - Major Lazer).
Somto Ajuluchukwu in early days worked as marketing executive at LEGO Nigeria (2012), Content Executive at Starfish Mobile (2013) and Investment banker at Zenith Pension Custodians (2014).
In late 2017 he launched C3 Africa (Creative Content Conference) Nigerias first content market serving as meeting point for international companies discovering and buying Nigerian content, this expanded to the Accra for its second edition in August 2018, and has become a blue print of B2B events connecting the local entertainment industry to international stake holders.
In October 2018, African International Film Festival Appointed him Coordinator Animation programmes where he served for 1 year.
In 2021 Somto won his first animation film award at the NAICCON Film Festival. Nairobi, Kenya (Best Animation, 2021) and his 2nd award at the Afrocomic Con Film Festival. Los Angeles, USA (Best Animation, 2022).
Somto Ajuluchukwu is based in Lagos, Nairobi & Accra.