Akosua Adoma Owusu

Akosua Adoma Owusu (b. 1984) is a Ghanaian-American réalisateur de film, producer and cinematographer dont films address the collision of identities. Reconnaissants de la société the notion of "double consciousness," coined by sociologue and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois to define the experience of black Americans negotiating soi in the face of discrimination and cultural dislocation, Owusu aims to create a third cinématographique space or consciousness. In her works, feminism, queerness, and African identities interact in African white, American black and American cultural environments. Named by Indiewire as one of 6 pre-eminent d'Avant-Garde, Female réalisateurs de film Who Redefined Cinema, she was a featured artist of the 56th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar programmed by de renommée mondiale critic and film curator Dennis Lim. Owusu a montré worldwide including at the Berlinale, Rotterdam, Locarno, Toronto, New-Directeurs/New Films (New York), and the BFI London Film Festival. She has won numerous and fellowships grants including from the Guggenheim Foundation, Вестридж de la Fondation Knight Foundation, Creative Capital, Mcdowell de la Colonie, Camargo Foundation and most recently from the Residency Program of the Goethe-Institut à Salvador de Bahia. Currently, she clivages-her time between Lithuania and New York, where she works as an Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Akosua Adoma Owusu is represented by André Farber at Farber Law LLC.