Akosua Adoma Owusu

Akosua Adoma Owusu (b. 1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker, producer and cinematographer quién films address the collision of identities. Agradecidos de la empresa the notion of "double consciousness," coined by sociologist and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois to define the experience of black Americans negociar la mismidad in the face of discrimination and cultural dislocation, Owusu aims to create a third artes cinemáticos space or consciousness. In her works, feminismo, queerness, and African identities interact in African white, americana, black and 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 la Película Seminar programmed by mundialmente conocido critic and película curator dennis lim. Owusu has exhibited worldwide including at the berlinale, rotterdam, locarno, toronto, nueva Directores/New Films (New York), y el BFI London Film Festival. She has won numerous and fellowships incluyendo grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Вестридж de la Fundación Knight Foundation, Creative Capital, mcdowell de la Colonia, camargo Foundation and most recently from the Residency Program of the Goethe-Institut en salvador de bahía. Currently, she divides-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 andrés Фарбер at Фарбер Law LLC.