Akosua Adoma Owusu

Akosua Adoma Owusu
Akosua Adoma Owusu in 2016
Born	January 1, 1984 Alexandria, Virginia
Nationality	Ghanaian, American
Education	master's degrees in the School of Film/Video and School of Fine Art from California Institute of the Arts, bachelor's degere in interdisciplinary degree in Media Studies and Studio Art with distinction from the University of Virginia
Alma mater	University of Virginia and California Institute of the Arts
Notable work	Kwaku Ananse (film), Me Broni Ba (2009) and Drexciya (film) (2011)
Style	Filmmaker, Producer
Movement	Feminism
Awards	2015 Guggenheim Fellowship 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellow 2013 Africa Movie Academy Award 2012 Art Matters grantee 2012 Creative Capital grantee 2011 Focus Features Africa First awardee
Website	http://akosuaadoma.com/home.html

Akosua Adoma Owusu (born January 1, 1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker and producer. Her films explore the colliding identities of black immigrants in America through multiple forms ranging from cinematic essays to experimental narratives to reconstructed Black popular media. Interpreting the notion of "double consciousness," coined by sociologist and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, Owusu aims to create a third cinematic space or consciousness. In her work, feminism, queerness, and African identities interact in African, white American, and black American cultural spaces.^[1][2]

She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.