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Akosua Adoma Owusu
Alexandria (mul) Translate, Silimin gɔli January 1, 1984 (run 40)
O ya TiŋgbaŋGhana
America
Education
Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋCalifornia Institute of the Arts (en) Translate
University of Virginia (en) Translate
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibuSilmiinsili
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Tumafilm director (en) Translate, screenwriter (en) Translate, film producer (en) Translate, cinematographer (en) Translate ni television producer (en) Translate
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Akosua Adoma Owusu (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Anashaara goli January 1, 1984) ka o nyɛ ŋun yaari ka produsiri filimnima.[1][2]

O chanila shikuru Harvard University mini Pratt Institute din be Brooklyn, New York.

O piligu mini Shikuru

[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

Owusu laamba nyɛla Ghananima ka bɛ wumsi o Alexandria, Virginia. Ŋuna n-nyɛ bi'bili o laamba bihi ata ni, ka o laamba nyɛ Grace mini Albert A. Owusu, Sr. Owusu malila shɛhira gbaŋ shɛli o ni deei School of Film/Video mini School of Fine Art nima sani California Institute of the Arts, ka o daa deei ki yuuni 2008.[3] O daa lahi deei "Bachelors interdisciplinary degree in Media Studies"[4] mini Studio Art shikuru yuli yuli booni University of Virginia yuuni 2005.[5] Owusu ni yɛn pili tuma o daa nyɛla ŋun tabiri sɔŋdi Chris Rock's HBO documentary[6] "Good Hair" (2009). Din nyaaŋa ka o daa pili o maŋmaŋa tuma, "experimental films".[7]

Year Award Work Category Result Ref.
2005 Virginia Film Festival Ajube Kete Ken Jacobs Award for Best Experimental Short Film Won
2008 Berlin International Film Festival Me Broni Ba/My White Baby Berlinale Talent Campus Won
2008 California Institute of the Arts Good Hair Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Grant Won
2008 Detroit Docs Intermittent Delight Most Progressive Filmmaker Award Won
2008 Mexico International Film Festival Me Broni Ba/My White Baby Silver Palm Award Won
2009 Athens International Film and Video Festival Me Broni Ba/My White Baby Best Documentary Short Won
2009 Chicago Underground Film Festival Me Broni Ba/My White Baby Best Documentary Short Won
2010 Robert J. Flaherty Film Seminar Work Featured Artist Won
2010 Real Life Documentary Festival Me Broni Ba/My White Baby Special Jury Mention, Best Short Film Won
2011 Black Maria Film Festival Drexciya Jury's Citation Prize Won
2011 African Film Festival, Tarifa Drexciya Special Jury Mention Won
2011 Expresión en Corto International Film Festival Drexciya Best Experimental Short Won
2012 Focus Features Africa First Kwaku Ananse Production Grant Won
2012 Creative Capital Foundation Black Sunshine Film/Video Grant Won
2012 Art Matters Foundation Kwaku Ananse Post-Production Grant Won
2013 Ann Arbor Film Festival Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful Most Promising Filmmaker Prize Won
2013 Berlin International Film Festival Kwaku Ananse Golden Bear Best Short Film Nominated
2013 Africa Movie Academy Award Kwaku Ananse Best Short Film Won
2013 Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma Kwaku Ananse Best Short Film of the Year Won
2013 Arte International Prize Black Sunshine Development Grant Won
2013 MacDowell Colony Fellowship Black Sunshine Screenwriting Grant Won
2014 Berlin International Film Festival Black Sunshine Production Grant Won
2015 Association Cinémas et Cultures d'Afrique Kwaku Ananse Special Jury Mention Won
2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Black Sunshine Guggenheim Fellowship Won
2015 Tribeca Film Institute Black Sunshine Tribeca All Access Development Grant Won
2016 Berlin International Film Festival Reluctantly Queer Golden Bear for Best Short Film Nominated
2016 Berlin International Film Festival Reluctantly Queer Teddy Award for Best Short Film Nominated
2016 Baltimore International Black Film Festival Reluctantly Queer Audience Award for Best International Short Film Won
2016 The Camargo Foundation Save the Rex Travel Grant Won
2017 Africa Movie Academy Award On Monday of Last Week Best Short Film Nominated
2018 Pratt Institute On Monday of Last Week Mellon Research Grant Won
2018 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Oberhausen Film Seminar Featured Artist Won
2018 Goethe-Institut Vila Sul Salvador-Bahia Black Sunshine Artist-in-Residence Won
2018 Cobo Center Marquee Video Art Series Intermittent Delight John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Won
2019 Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle The Westridge Foundation Won
Year Film Role
2005 Ajube Kete writer, director, producer, cinematographer
2006 Tea 4 Two director, producer, cinematographer
2007 Intermittent Delight director, producer, cinematographer
2008 Revealing Roots actress, director, producer
2008 Boyant: A Michael Jordan in a Speedo is Far Beyond the Horizon actress, producer
2009 Me Broni Ba director, producer, cinematographer
2010-11 Drexciya director, producer, cinematographer
2012 Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful director, producer
2013 Kwaku Ananse writer, director, producer
2015 Bus Nut director, producer, cinematographer
2016 Reluctantly Queer director, producer, cinematographer
2017 On Monday of Last Week writer, director, producer
2018 Mahogany Too director, producer, cinematographer
2019 Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us director, producer, cinematographer
2019 White Afro director, producer, cinematographer
2020 King of Sanwi director, producer, cinematographer
in production Black Sunshine (feature film) writer, director, producer
  • Owusu, Akosua Adoma, and Adwoa Adu-Gyamfi. Me broni ba. New York, NY: Cinema Guild (2009).
  • Baron, Jaimie. Inappropriate Bodies: Contemporary Filmmakers Challenging Gender Constructions through Appropriation. UCLA Center for the Study of Women (2009).
  • Birchall, Danny. Things Said Again (2010) Film Quarterly Volume 63, Issue 3, pg. 55-57
  • Nelmes, Jill. Introduction to Film Studies (2012)
  • Dovey, Lindiwe. African Feminist Engagements with Film (2012) , p. 18-23.
  • Mask, Mia, Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies (2012).
  • Kendall, Nzingha, Commentary: Haunting in Akosua Adoma Owusu's Short Experimental Films (2013). Black Camera
  • Agyeman, Erica. Akosua Adoma Owusu: Exploring 'Threeness Archived 2021-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, The International Review of African American Art 24.3 (2013), 11–13.
  • Prabhu, Anjali. Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora (2014).
  • Laderman, David. Sampling Media (2014).
  • UNESCO. Égalité des genres: patrimoine et créativité (2014).
  • Ellerson, Beti. Gaze Regimes: Film And Feminisms In Africa (2015)
  • Johnson, Elizabeth. Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas (2016) , p. 113.
  • Kelly, Gabrielle. Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through (2018)
  • Lené Hole, Kristin. Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction (2018).
  • Bisschoff, Lizelle. Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic. (2019).
  • Nyeck, S.N. Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies (2019).
  • Williams, James S. Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty (2019).
  • Dasilva, Dax. Age of Union: Igniting The Changemaker (2020).
  • Huberman, Anthony. Abbas to Yuki: Writing Alongside Exhibitions (2020).


  1. Akosua Adoma Owusu talks about triple consciousness.
  2. MacArthur, Julie (18 September 2019). The Aesthetics of Triple Consciousness.
  3. 40 Festivals and Counting: Me Broni Ba (my white baby) on the Film Circuit (21 July 2010).
  4. Govil, Nitin. School of Cinematic Arts.
  5. University of Virginia Arts Magazine - Akosua Adoma Owusu.
  6. ME BRONI BA (MY WHITE BABY) - Cinema Guild Non-Theatrical.
  7. Fowler In Focus: The Art of Hair in Africa.
  8. MoMA Documentary Fortnight (en-US).
  9. Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans.
  10. Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.
  11. REDCAT.
  12. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
  13. Video room: Akosua Adoma Owusu.
  14. Afro-Atlantic Histories.
  15. Institute for Contemporary Art.
  16. Screening: Akosua Adoma Owusu.
  17. Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu.
  18. African Twilight.
  19. Fragments of a Dream.
  20. On Monday of Last Week.
  21. Akosua Adoma Owusu - John Simon Memorial Foundation.
  22. Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.
  23. New Voices of African Cinema - Akosua Adoma Owusu.
  24. Making Africa - Akosua Adoma Owusu.
  25. Tabakalera.
  26. Encuentro con Akosua Adoma Owusu (7 April 2016).
  27. L'évènement Akosua Adoma Owusu.
  28. Triple Consciousness: Films of Akosua Adoma Owusu (26 October 2016).
  29. Billy Woodberry - Bless Their Little Hearts (26 October 2016).
  30. Dreamlands: Afrofuturism - Whitney Museum.
  31. Dreamlands: Pain Revisited - Whitney Museum.
  32. An Evening With Akosua Adoma Owusu - MoMA.
  33. Rochester Art Center.
  34. America is Hard To See.
  35. 24700 News from CalArts (20 April 2015).
  36. Fowler in Focus: The Art of Hair in Africa.
  37. In Conversation: Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Akosua Adoma Owusu with Jamillah James.
  38. Off-Site Program: In Conversation: Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Akosua Adoma Owusu (24 September 2015).
  39. Do/Tell (en-US) (8 March 2015).
  40. Prospect.3 (en-US).
  41. CinemAfrica - Moderna Museet (en-US).
  42. Fore - Smithsonian Libraries (en-US).
  43. Beardenmania (en-US).
  44. The Bearden Project (in English). OCLC 841590034. Retrieved 2012-12-20 via WorldCat.
  45. VideoStudio: Changing Same (en-US).
  46. Quadruple Consciousness (en-US).
  47. A Beating Heart of Social Import (en-US).
  48. MoMA Documentary Fortnight (en-US).