Akosua Adoma Owusu

Akosua Adoma Owusu (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Anashaara goli January 1, 1984) ka o nyɛ ŋun yaari ka produsiri filimnima.

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

 O piligu mini Shikuru 

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. O daa lahi deei "Bachelors interdisciplinary degree in Media Studies" mini Studio Art shikuru yuli yuli booni University of Virginia yuuni 2005. Owusu ni yɛn pili tuma o daa nyɛla ŋun tabiri sɔŋdi Chris Rock's HBO documentary "Good Hair" (2009). Din nyaaŋa ka o daa pili o maŋmaŋa tuma, "experimental films".

 Selected exhibitions 

2020: Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle at the Museum of Modern Art Documentary Fortnight
2019: Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle at Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans)
2019: Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
2019: Between Three Worlds: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at REDCAT
2019: Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2019: Sala de Video: Akosua Adoma Owusu at the São Paulo Museum of Art
2019: Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond
2019: Screening: Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2018: Triple Consciousness at BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; 
2018: African Twilight at the Bowers Museum; 
2018: Fragments of a Dream at the McNay Art Museum; 
2018: Screening and Conversation with Director Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Fowler Museum at UCLA; 
2017: Akosua Adoma Owusu and Bus Nut at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; 
2016: Making Africa: Akosua Adoma Owusu at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona  
2016: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at Tabakalera 
2016: Encuentro con Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León 
2016: L'évènement Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Centre Georges Pompidou 
2016: Triple Consciousness at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2016: Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 at the Whitney Museum of American Art 
2015: Modern Mondays: An Evening with Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Museum of Modern Art 
2015: Existential Crisis at the Rochester Art Center
2015: America Is Hard to See at the Whitney Museum of American Art
2015: The Art of Hair in Africa at the Fowler Museum at UCLA
2015: Two Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at Art and Practice  in association with the Hammer Museum
2015: Do/Tell at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
2014: Prospect.3: Notes for Now New Orleans Triennial
2013: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Moderna Museet
2012: Fore at the Studio Museum in Harlem
2012: The Bearden Project at the Studio Museum in Harlem
2011: VideoStudio: Changing Same at the Studio Museum in Harlem
2011: Quadruple Consciousness at the Vox Populi (art gallery)
2009: 30 Seconds Off an Inch at the Studio Museum in Harlem
2009: Me Broni Ba at the Museum of Modern Art Documentary Fortnight 

 Pina mini piibu 
+YearAwardWorkCategoryResultRef.2005Virginia Film FestivalAjube Kete  Ken Jacobs Award for Best Experimental Short FilmWon2008Berlin International Film FestivalMe Broni Ba/My White BabyBerlinale Talent CampusWon2008California Institute of the ArtsGood HairAcademy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Grant Won2008Detroit DocsIntermittent DelightMost Progressive Filmmaker AwardWon2008Mexico International Film FestivalMe Broni Ba/My White BabySilver Palm AwardWon2009Athens International Film and Video FestivalMe Broni Ba/My White BabyBest Documentary ShortWon2009Chicago Underground Film FestivalMe Broni Ba/My White BabyBest Documentary ShortWon2010Robert J. Flaherty Film SeminarWorkFeatured ArtistWon2010Real Life Documentary FestivalMe Broni Ba/My White BabySpecial Jury Mention, Best Short FilmWon2011Black Maria Film FestivalDrexciyaJury's Citation PrizeWon2011African Film Festival, TarifaDrexciyaSpecial Jury MentionWon2011Expresión en Corto International Film FestivalDrexciyaBest Experimental ShortWon2012Focus Features Africa FirstKwaku AnanseProduction GrantWon2012Creative Capital FoundationBlack SunshineFilm/Video GrantWon2012Art Matters FoundationKwaku AnansePost-Production GrantWon2013Ann Arbor Film FestivalSplit Ends, I Feel WonderfulMost Promising Filmmaker PrizeWon2013Berlin International Film FestivalKwaku AnanseGolden Bear Best Short FilmNominated2013Africa Movie Academy AwardKwaku AnanseBest Short FilmWon2013Académie des Arts et Techniques du CinémaKwaku AnanseBest Short Film of the YearWon2013Arte International PrizeBlack SunshineDevelopment GrantWon2013MacDowell Colony FellowshipBlack SunshineScreenwriting GrantWon2014Berlin International Film FestivalBlack SunshineProduction GrantWon2015Association Cinémas et Cultures d'AfriqueKwaku AnanseSpecial Jury MentionWon2015John Simon Guggenheim Memorial FoundationBlack SunshineGuggenheim FellowshipWon2015Tribeca Film InstituteBlack SunshineTribeca All Access Development GrantWon2016Berlin International Film FestivalReluctantly QueerGolden Bear for Best Short FilmNominated2016Berlin International Film FestivalReluctantly QueerTeddy Award for Best Short FilmNominated2016Baltimore International Black Film FestivalReluctantly QueerAudience Award for Best International Short FilmWon2016The Camargo FoundationSave the RexTravel GrantWon2017Africa Movie Academy AwardOn Monday of Last WeekBest Short FilmNominated2018Pratt InstituteOn Monday of Last WeekMellon Research GrantWon2018International Short Film Festival OberhausenOberhausen Film SeminarFeatured ArtistWon2018Goethe-Institut Vila Sul Salvador-BahiaBlack SunshineArtist-in-ResidenceWon2018Cobo Center Marquee Video Art SeriesIntermittent DelightJohn S. and James L. Knight FoundationWon2019Wattis Institute for Contemporary ArtsAkosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the JungleThe Westridge FoundationWon

 Filimnima 
Filmography
 Year Film Role 2005 Ajube Kete writer, director, producer, cinematographer2006Tea 4 Twodirector, producer, cinematographer 2007 Intermittent Delight director, producer, cinematographer2008 Revealing Rootsactress, director, producer 2008Boyant: A Michael Jordan in a Speedo is Far Beyond the Horizon actress, producer 2009Me Broni Ba director, producer, cinematographer 2010-11Drexciya director, producer, cinematographer 2012Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful director, producer 2013Kwaku Ananse writer, director, producer 2015Bus Nut director, producer, cinematographer 2016Reluctantly Queer director, producer, cinematographer 2017On Monday of Last Week writer, director, producer 2018Mahogany Too director, producer, cinematographer 2019Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us director, producer, cinematographer 2019White Afro director, producer, cinematographer 2020King of Sanwi director, producer, cinematographerin productionBlack Sunshine (feature film)writer, director, producer

 Karim pahi 

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 , 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).

External links

Official Website
Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Internet Movie Database
Akosua Adoma Owusu on MUBI
Black women filmmakers
Ghanaian Filmmakers

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