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Akosua Adoma Owusu

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
0

Gender
Female

Birthday
January 1, 1984 (42 years old)

Place of Birth
Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Akosua Adoma Owusu

Biography

Akosua Adoma Owusu (b. 1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer whose films address the collision of identities. Interpreting the notion of "double consciousness," coined by sociologist and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois to define the experience of black Americans negotiating selfhood in the face of discrimination and cultural dislocation, Owusu aims to create a third cinematic space or consciousness. In her works, feminism, queerness, and African identities interact in African, white American, and black American cultural environments.

Named by Indiewire as one of 6 pre-eminent Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Redefined Cinema, she was a featured artist of the 56th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar programmed by renowned critic and film curator Dennis Lim. Owusu has exhibited worldwide including at the Berlinale, Rotterdam, Locarno, Toronto, New Directors/New Films (New York), and the BFI London Film Festival. She has won numerous fellowships and grants including from the Guggenheim Foundation, Westridge Foundation, Knight Foundation, Creative Capital, MacDowell Colony, Camargo Foundation and most recently from the Residency Program of the Goethe-Institut Salvador-Bahia. Currently, she divides her time between Ghana and New York, where she works as an Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Akosua Adoma Owusu is represented by Andrew Farber at Farber Law LLC.

Known For

Directing

2020King of Sanwi...Director
2019White Afro...Director
2019Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us...Director
2018On Monday of Last Week...Director
2018Mahogany Too...Director
2016Reluctantly Queer...Director
2014Bus Nut...Director
2013Kwaku Ananse...Director
2012Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful...Director
2010Drexciya...Director
2009My White Baby...Director
2008Boyant...Director
2007Intermittent Delight...Director
2006Tea 4 Two...Director
2005Ajube Kete...Director

Production

2019White Afro...Producer
2018Mahogany Too...Producer
2016Reluctantly Queer...Producer
2014Bus Nut...Producer
2014Afronauts...Executive Producer
2013Kwaku Ananse...Producer
2012Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful...Producer
2010Drexciya...Producer
2009My White Baby...Producer
2007Intermittent Delight...Producer

Camera

2019White Afro...Director of Photography
2019Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us...Director of Photography
2009My White Baby...Director of Photography

Writing

2018On Monday of Last Week...Screenplay
2013Kwaku Ananse...Writer
2010Drexciya...Writer
2009My White Baby...Writer
2006Tea 4 Two...Writer
2005Ajube Kete...Writer

Crew

2016Reluctantly Queer...Cinematography
2014Bus Nut...Cinematography
2010Drexciya...Cinematography
2007Intermittent Delight...Cinematography

Editing

2016Reluctantly Queer...Editor
2012Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful...Editor
2009My White Baby...Co-Editor
2007Intermittent Delight...Editor
2006Untitled #1...Editor

Acting