Alfonso Morgan-Terrero

Executive Artistic Director, GFS NY

Alfonso Morgan-Terrero is a filmmaker and educator born in the Bronx and raised in Harlem to parents from Jamaica and Dominican Republic. He is a Professor in the Department of Film & Television at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and serves as Executive Artistic Director of Ghetto Film School NY, based out of the South Bronx.

His feature film Verde (2020) was the first film to be shot in the border province of Dajabón in Dominican Republic. He is the co-editor of homesickness: A BIPOC Cinema zine published annually that has featured long form interviews with artists such as Khalik Allah, Andrew Ahn, Isabel Sandoval and many others. He has provided journalistic coverage of China’s film industry for American Cinematographer Magazine and as a 2019-20 Henry Luce foundation fellow he shadowed veteran 5th Generation Chinese filmmaker, Tian Zhuangzhuang.

Alfonso is a 2024 Film Independent Episodic Directing Fellow and is currently adapting the nonfiction memoir A Breed Apart for Kevin Hart’s Hart Beat Productions. His latest short film Grown screened in competition at LALIFF and will screen at Proof Film Festival at The American Cinematheque in October.