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Akosua Adoma Owusu

1984 (42) • Directing

Akosua Adoma Owusu (b. 1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer whose films address the collision of identities. Interpreting the notion of "double consciousness," coined by sociologist and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois to define the experience of black Americans negotiating selfhood in the face of discrimination and cultural dislocation, Owusu aims to create a third cinematic space or consciousness. In her works, feminism, queerness, and African identities interact in African, white American, and black American cultural environments.

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Afronauts

67%

Executive Producer

2014

White Afro

54%

Director of Photography

2019

Reluctantly Queer

50%

Director

2016

Kwaku Ananse

62%

Director

2013

Drexciya

33%

Cinematography

2010

My White Baby

77%

Director

2009

Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us

50%

Director

2019

Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful

50%

Editor

2012

King of Sanwi

80%

Director

2020

White Afro

54%

Director of Photography

2019

White Afro

54%

Director

2019

White Afro

54%

Producer

2019

Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us

50%

Director

2019

Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us

50%

Director of Photography

2019

On Monday of Last Week

Director

2018

On Monday of Last Week

Screenplay

2018

Mahogany Too

Director

2018

Mahogany Too

Producer

2018

Reluctantly Queer

50%

Director

2016

Reluctantly Queer

50%

Cinematography

2016

Reluctantly Queer

50%

Producer

2016

Reluctantly Queer

50%

Editor

2016

Bus Nut

70%

Director

2014

Bus Nut

70%

Cinematography

2014

Bus Nut

70%

Producer

2014

Afronauts

67%

Executive Producer

2014

Kwaku Ananse

62%

Director

2013

Kwaku Ananse

62%

Producer

2013

Kwaku Ananse

62%

Writer

2013

Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful

50%

Editor

2012

Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful

50%

Producer

2012

Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful

50%

Director

2012

Drexciya

33%

Cinematography

2010

Drexciya

33%

Director

2010

Drexciya

33%

Writer

2010

Drexciya

33%

Producer

2010

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