Akosua Adoma Owusu

**kosua Adoma Owusu** (amuru Jenụwarị 1, 1984) bụ onye Ghana-American onye na-eme ihe nkiri na onye nrụpụta. Ihe nkiri ya na-enyocha njirimara ndị isi ojii kwabatara na America site n'ụdị dị iche iche sitere na edemede cinematic ruo na akụkọ nnwale ruo na mgbasa ozi a ma ama Black wulitere. N'ịkọwa echiche nke " uche abụọ ," nke ọkà mmụta mmekọrịta ọha na eze na onye na-akwado ikike obodo WEB Du Bois chepụtara, Owusu bu n'obi ịmepụta oghere sinima ma ọ bụ nsụhọ nke atọ. N'ọrụ ya, Feminism, queerness, na njirimara ndị Africa na-emekọrịta ihe na oghere omenala ndị Africa, ndị America ọcha, na ndị ojii America.  

Ugbu a ọ bụ onye nkuzi nleta na Mahadum Harvard na Pratt Institute na Brooklyn, New York.

## Ndụ mmalite na agụmakwụkwọ
Ndị nne na nna Ghana mụrụ Owusu ma zụlite ya na obodo ndị mbata na Alexandria, Virginia . Ọ bụ ọdụdụ n'ime ụmụnne atọ Grace na Albert A. Owusu, Sr. Owusu nwere akara ugo mmụta nna ukwu na School of Film/Video na School of Fine Art si California Institute of Arts, nke ọ nwetara na 2008.  Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na nzere bachelọ interdisciplinary na Media Studies  na Studio Art dị iche na Mahadum Virginia na 2005.  Owusu malitere ọrụ ya dị ka onye enyemaka mgbe emepụtara ihe na Chris Rock 's HBO documentary  " Ezi ntutu " (2009). N'oge na-adịghị anya ka nke ahụ gasịrị, ọ gbanwere ime ihe nkiri dị nkenke nke onwe ya. 

## Ọrụ
N'oge na-adịghị anya ka ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na CalArts na 2008, Owusu bụ onye ama ama   nke 56th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar nke onye ama ama na-akatọ na onye na-ahụ maka ihe nkiri Dennis Lim mere.  *Indiewire* kpọrọ aha ya dị ka otu n'ime ndị na-eme ihe nkiri nwanyị isii Avant-Garde bụ ndị Redefined Cinema, na otu n'ime ndị Artists Black Huffington Post : 30 Contemporary Art Makers Under 40 You should Know,  Owusu bụ 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellow  na 2015 Guggenheim Fellow . 

N'afọ 2020, Owusu nwetara ihe nrite Lincoln Center maka ndị nka na-apụta  nke ihe nkiri nyere na Lincoln Center . 

*Indiewire* kọwara ụdị ihe nkiri na-agbanwe ọdịdị nke Owusu:
 
Ọmụma mmụọ ya dị ka ọ na-akọwa ya, ghọrọ ebe ọpụpụ maka ihe nkiri ya *Me broni ba* (nwa ọcha m).  N'iji ntutu isi dị ka usoro omenala, ọ na-enyocha njirimara na echiche ndị Africa na ndị Africa na America na mgbalị iji dozie esemokwu ha.  Ed Halter, otu n'ime ndị guzobere Light Industry na Brooklyn, depụtara *Me Broni Ba* dị ka otu n'ime ihe nkiri iri kacha elu nke 2010 na magazin *Artforum* . 

O mepụtala ihe nkiri na-enweta ihe nrite gụnyere *Reluctantly Queer* (2016) na *Kwaku Ananse* . Na 2013, *Kwaku Ananse*  nwetara nhọpụta ọla edo na Berlinale  wee merie 2013 Africa Movie Academy Award  maka mba West Africa nke Ghana na ngalaba ihe nkiri kacha mma. Ihe nkiri ahụ, bụ onye na-ese ihe nkiri Ghana Jojo Abot, kwadoro Focus Features' Africa First,  ma nwee mmalite nke North America na 2013 Toronto International Film Festival .    Agụnyere *Kwaku Ananse* na 2013 Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma - César Golden Nights, mmemme a haziri site na nkwado sitere na UNESCO nke na-ahọrọ ihe nkiri dị mkpirikpi ama ama.

*Achọghị Queer* (2016)  emepụtara na mmekorita ya na Dr. Kwame Edwin Otu,   onye osote prọfesọ nke African American and African Studies na Mahadum Virginia  ka ahọpụtara maka onyinye Golden Bear na Teddy Award.  na 2016 Berlin International Film Festival.  Ọ nwere mmalite nke North America dị ka akụkụ nke New Directors/New Films Festival .   

N'afọ 2017, Owusu    dere wee duzie "N'ụbọchị Mọnde nke izu ụka gara aga",    ngbanwe ihe nkiri nke obere akụkọ nke otu aha ahụ sitere n'aka onye edemede a ma ama bụ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. nchịkọta akụkọ mkpirisi, "Ihe dị n'olu gị."    Ihe nkiri nke gosipụtara onye na-eme ihe nkiri America bụ Karyn Parsons kacha mara amara maka ọrụ ya dị ka Hilary Banks na NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, nwetara nhọpụta na 2017 African Movie Academy Awards . Ihe nkiri ahụ gara n'ihu na ihuenyo na Fowler Museum,  ICA London  na 25th New York African Film Festival nke ihe nkiri na Lincoln Center kwadoro. 

Owusu kwuru na N'ajụjụ ọnụ 2015 na *Elle nke South Africa (magazine)*, Owusu kwuru "Amalitere m ịse ihe nkiri na Ghana dịka ụzọ isi chọta ebe n'ime ihe nketa Ghana m. M na-akpọkarị onwe m dị ka onye Ghana-American, ma m na-ewere onwe m. ịbụ onye na-eme ihe nkiri America nke sitere na agbụrụ Ghana Mgbe m nọ na America, ọ na-adị m ka onye Ghana na-adị m, mgbe m nọ na Ghana, ọ na-adị m ka mụ na ndị enyi m si America gaa Ghana iji nyere m aka na mkpasu iwe na-eji oji ma n'Africa ma n'ebe ndị Africa nọ n'Africa mere ka echiche ịhụnanya banyere kọntinent ahụ dị ka ebe obibi na-echere m ịse ihe nkiri na Ghana, bụ akụkụ nke njem a." 

Na 2011, Owusu gosipụtara ọrụ na *Cusp: Works on Film & Video site Kevin Jerome Everson & Akosua Adoma Owusu* na Ụlọ Ahịa Ụlọ Ahịa. A na-akpọ "mmetụta chiri anya na ezigbo nghọta nke ọhụụ nke ọgụgụ isi bara uru",  ihe ngosi a gụnyere *ikpughe mgbọrọgwụ*, mmeghari nke dị jụụ nke otu n'ime ihe nkiri kachasị egwu sitere na Alex Haley 's *Roots (1977 miniseries)* na-ejikọta achọta. ihe nkiri na ihe nkiri kpakpando Owusu na ndị ọzọ na-eme ihe nkiri Africa. 

Enyerela ihe nkiri Grasshopper LLC akwụkwọ akụkọ gbasara ọrụ Owusu. 

Farber Law LLC nọchitere ya.

Emepụtara ihe nkiri ya n'okpuru ụlọ ọrụ ya bụ Obibini Pictures LLC.

## Nchịkọta na-adịgide adịgide
Ọrụ ya gụnyere na mkpokọta na-adịgide adịgide nke Whitney Museum of American Art,  Center Georges Pompidou,  na Fowler Museum na UCLA . 

## Ihe nkiri Rex
N'afọ 2013, Owusu malitere atụmatụ Kickstarter zuru ụwa ọnụ iji 'Save the Rex'!    Cinema Rex bụ otu n'ime ụlọ sinima kacha ochie na Ghana. N'oge enweghị nchekwa ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị na Ghana na 60s, 70s na 80s, enwere mbelata na Arts. Ụlọ ihe nkiri niile mechiri n'ihi mpụ ndị agha na iwu na-alọta . Owusu chọrọ ichekwa ụlọ sinima Rex maka ichekwa ụlọ sinima.  Na 2016, Owusu mepụtara ihe ngosi ihuenyo dabere na mgbasa ozi ya zuru ụwa ọnụ iji chekwaa Rex Cinema    na Ghana na Camargo Foundation na Cassis, France.   N'afọ 2017, *The Guardian* kwuputara na Owusu na-arụ ọrụ na ndụ nke ndụ n'ezie, ihe nkiri akụkọ ifo banyere mkpọsa ya iji weghachi ihe nkiri Rex mere eme. 

## Mmezu nke mba ụwa
N'afọ 2015, ihe nkiri abụọ nke Owusu duziri ma mepụta bụ ihe ndị nkatọ nwetara na magazin Artforum . 

Ihe nkiri Owusu *Reluctantly Queer* bụ otu n'ime ihe nkiri kacha mma nke ndị nkatọ na 2016 na Sight &amp;amp; Sound, akwụkwọ akụkọ ihe nkiri na-ebipụta kwa ọnwa nke British Film Institute (BFI) bipụtara 

N'afọ 2016, ndị Britain Royal African Society kpọrọ Owusu ka ọ bụrụ mmadụ nke izu ha yana *Elle nke South Africa (magazine)* kpọrọ ya dịka otu n'ime ụmụ nwanyị 50 na-enweghị atụ. 

N'afọ 2017, akpọrọ aha ya na akwụkwọ akụkọ *Dazed* dị ka otu n'ime ndị na-eme ihe nkiri nnwale nnwale na-agbakọ nnukwu isiokwu ụwa. 

Na 2018, Cobo Center nyere Owusu ọrụ ka o mepụta ntinye vidiyo n'akụkụ Jefferson na Washington avenues na ogbe ndịda Detroit, Michigan n'oge ọnwa akụkọ ihe mere eme ojii. 

Enyere Owusu onye na-ese ihe na-ebi ndụ site na Goethe-Institut Vila Sul na Salvador, Bahia Brazil, na 2018, tinyere onye na-ese ihe nrụnye Britain na onye na-ese ihe nkiri Isaac Julien . 

Owusu sonyeere dị ka onye ọka iwu ama ama na mmemme ihe nkiri Ann Arbor nke afọ 57 wee gosi mmemme pụrụ iche nke raara nye ọrụ ya. 

Na 2019, o duuru ogbako maka ndị na-ese ihe nkiri, ndị nkatọ na ndị nyocha na Amamihe Triple na Cinema Camp  mmemme ogologo ụbọchị anọ kwa afọ nke Meno Avilys Film Center nke dabere na Vilnius, Lithuania haziri. 

Ihe nkiri Owusu bụ *White Afro*  nwetara ihe nrite Premio Medien Patent Verwaltung AG na Pardi di domani (Leopards of Tomorrow) ngalaba nke 2019 Locarno Festival   na Switzerland . Edere ihe nkiri a n'asụsụ etiti Europe atọ.

Ihe nkiri Owusu *Pelourinho: Ha anaghị eche banyere anyị n'ezie* bụ otu n'ime ihe nkiri kacha mma nke ndị nkatọ na 2019 na magazin Sight & Sound nke British Film Institute (BFI) bipụtara. 

## Ihe ngosi ahọpụtara

* 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 

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## Ọgụgụ ọzọ

* Owusu, Akosua Adoma, na Adwoa Adu-Gyamfi. *Me broni ba* . New York, NY: Cinema Guild (2009).
* Baron, Jaimi. *Akụkụ na-ekwesịghị ekwesị: Ndị na-eme ihe nkiri nke oge a na-ama aka arụ ọrụ nwoke na nwanyị site na ntinye aka.* http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mw7m95b Ụlọ ọrụ UCLA maka ọmụmụ ihe ụmụ nwanyị (2009).
* Birchall, Danny. *Ihe Ekwuru Ọzọ* (2010) Ihe nkiri Nkeji nkeji 63, mbipụta 3, pg. 55-57
* Nelmes, Jill. *Okwu mmalite nke ọmụmụ ihe nkiri* (2012) https://books.google.com/books?id=AnGrAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22erie%22+%2B+%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22&pg=PT620
* Dovey, Lindiwe. *Mmekọrịta ụmụ nwanyị Africa na ihe nkiri* (2012) https://web.archive.org/web/20220119221237/http://www.agi.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/429/feminist_africa_journals/archive/16/fa16_full_pub.pdf, p.&nbsp;18-23.
* Nkpuchi, Mia, Ihe nkiri Black American nke oge a: agbụrụ, okike na mmekọ nwoke na nwanyị na ihe nkiri (2012).
* Kendall, Nzingha, Commentary: Haunting in Akosua Adoma Owusu's Short Experimental Films (2013). *Igwefoto ojii*
* Agyeman, Erica. Akosua Adoma Owusu: Na-enyocha 'Threeness Archived   , *Nlebanya mba ụwa nke Art African American Art* 24.3 (2013), 11–13.
* Prabhu, Anjali. *Cinema nke oge a nke Africa na ndị mba ọzọ* https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZ5kAwAAQBAJ&dq=akosua+adoma+owusu&pg=PT307 (2014).
* Laderman, David. *Mgbasa ozi nlele* https://books.google.com/books?id=B0WkAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22control%22+%2B+%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22&pg=PA179 (2014).
* UNESCO. *Egalité des genres: patrimoine et créativité* https://books.google.com/books?id=brsPBgAAQBAJ&dq=Cinemas+D%E2%80%99Afrique+%2B+akosua+adoma+owusu&pg=PA109 (2014).
* Ellerson, Beti. *Ọchịchị Gaze: Ihe nkiri na Feminisms n'Africa* (2015) https://books.google.com/books?id=3DZjDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22+%22triple+consciousness%22&pg=PT50
* Johnson, Elizabeth. *Akụkọ ụmụ nwanyị na Nollywood Melodramas* (2016) https://books.google.com/books?id=x4vpDAAAQBAJ&dq=%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22+%22triple+consciousness%22&pg=PA113, p.&nbsp;113.
* Kelly, Gabrielle. *Celuloid Ceiling: Ndị isi ihe nkiri ụmụ nwanyị na-agbaji* (2018) https://books.google.com/books?id=N0KeDwAAQBAJ&dq=Celluloid+Ceiling%3A+Women+Film+Directors+Breaking+Through+%2B+%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22&pg=PT24
* Lené Hole, Kristin. *Ihe nkiri Feminisms: Okwu Mmalite zuru ụwa ọnụ* https://books.google.com/books?id=QCBtDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22+ajube+kete&pg=PT251 (2018).
* Bisschoff, Lizelle. *Womenmụ nwanyị nọ na sinima Africa: gafere ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị ahụ.* https://books.google.com/books?id=4aS-DwAAQBAJ&dq=Lizelle+Bisschoff+%2B+%22akosua+adoma+owusu%22&pg=PT127 (2019).
* Nyeck, SN *Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies* https://books.google.com/books?id=lkPBDwAAQBAJ&dq=reluctantly+queer+akosua+adoma+owusu&pg=PT10 (2019).
* Williams, James S. *Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty* https://books.google.com/books?id=rrGIDwAAQBAJ&dq=reluctantly+queer+akosua+adoma+owusu&pg=PA179 (2019).
* Dasilva, Dax. *Afọ nke Njikọ: Igniting The Changemaker* https://books.google.com/books?id=eD7YDwAAQBAJ&dq=akosua+adoma+owusu&pg=PT98 (2020).
* Huberman, Anthony. *Abbas ka Yuki: Ide n'akụkụ ihe ngosi* https://books.google.com/books?id=lMNLzAEACAAJ (2020).

## Njikọ mpụga
 

* Weebụsaịtị gọọmentị
* Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Internet Movie Database
* Akosua Adoma Owusu na MUBI
* Ndị na-eme ihe nkiri ojii
* Ndị na-eme ihe nkiri Ghana

## Edensibia

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