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- Adoma
- Adoma Owusu
- Akosua Owusu
- Akosua
- Akosua Adoma Owusu (*1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker whose films address a collision of identities, where the African immigrant in America has a triple consciousness. Named by IndieWire as one of six preeminent «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. She has exhibited worldwide, including at the Centre Pompidou, at Berlinale, Rotterdam, Locarno, Toronto, New Directors/New Films (NY), and London (BFI). Her short film «Kwaku Ananse» won the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Award, and her recent short «White Afro» received the Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Prize at the 2019 Locarno Film Festival. She is a recipient of the 2020 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists.
Akosua Adoma Owusu is represented by Andrew Farber at Farber Law LLC.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Obibini Pictures, LLC
- She is the first baby born in Northern Virginia on January 1, 1984.
- She is the former student of prolific cinematographer Kevin Jerome Everson.
- She is the protégé of renowned film curator and writer Dennis Lim.
- Instead of 'Africanizing' Western stories, I'm interested in reclaiming African history rendering them into what is happening in the present day.
- I would like to insert myself in the tradition of African storytelling through cinematic language.
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