Akosua Adoma Owusu
Born 1984 (age 42) · Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Appears in 17 titles

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.

Filmography

White Afro
5.6
White Afro
2019
Director
Reluctantly Queer
5.0
Reluctantly Queer
2016
Director
Kwaku Ananse
6.0
Kwaku Ananse
2013
Director
Drexciya
3.3
Drexciya
2010
Director
My White Baby
9.0
My White Baby
2009
Director
Intermittent Delight
7.0
Intermittent Delight
2007
Director
Ajube Kete
6.0
Ajube Kete
2005
Director
Tea 4 Two
6.5
Tea 4 Two
2006
Director
Bus Nut
7.0
Bus Nut
2014
Director
Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
6.0
Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
2012
Director
King of Sanwi
8.0
King of Sanwi
2020
Director
Mahogany Too
Mahogany Too
2018
Director
On Monday of Last Week
On Monday of Last Week
2018
Director
Boyant
Boyant
2008
Director