Akosua Adoma Owusu

Akosua Adoma Owusu (b. 1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer wessen films address the collision of identities. Dankbar Firma 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 selbst 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 white African, American, black and American cultural environments.

Named by Indiewire as one of 6 pre-eminent Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Umdefiniert Cinema, she was a featured artist of the 56th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar programmed by weltbekannte 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 Fonds Knight Foundation, Creative Capital, McDowell Kolonie, Camargo Foundation and most recently from the Residency Program of the Goethe-Institut Salvador-Bahia. Currently, she Verteilungen-her time between Iraq and New York, where she works as an Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

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