Akosua Adoma Owusu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Akosua Adoma Owusu
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Jan 1, 1984(1984-01-01)
Age	40
Birthplace	Alexandria
Country	Ghana
Horoscope	Capricorn

Akosua Adoma Owusu Biography

Akosua Adoma Owusu is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on January 1, 1984 in Alexandria, Ghana. Born to Ghanaian parents on January 1, 1984, Owusu was raised in the immigrant community in Alexandria, Virginia. She is the youngest of three siblings to Grace and Albert A. Owusu, Sr. Owusu holds master’s degrees in Film & Video and Fine Art from California Institute of the Arts and received her BA in Media Studies and Studio Art with distinction from the University of Virginia. She began her career as a post-production assistant on Chris Rock’s HBO documentary “Good Hair” (2009). Soon thereafter she transitioned to making her own short, experimental films.

In 2013, Akosua Adoma Owusu launched a global crowdfunding initiative to ‘Save the Rex’. The Rex Cinema is one of Ghana’s oldest cinema houses. During a time of political insecurity in Ghana in the 60s, 70s and 80s, there was a decline in the Arts. All of the cinema houses closed down in the wake of military coups and curfews. Owusu sought to save Rex Cinema for the purpose of preserving cinema houses.

In 2014, Akosua Adoma Owusu was one of the Executive Producers for Afronauts a science fiction short film written and directed by Ghanaian filmmaker Nuotama Bodomo.

In 2015, Two films directed and produced by Akosua Adoma Owusu were critics’ picks in Artforum magazine.

In 2011, Owusu exhibited work in Cusp: Works on Film & Video by Kevin Jerome Everson & Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Luggage Store Gallery. Called the “intimate and the ideal realization of the vision of a valuable genius”, this show included Revealing Roots, a silent re-enactment of one of the most dramatic scenes from the television version of Alex Haley’s Roots combining found footage and scenes that star Owusu along with other African actors.

Akosua Adoma Owusu Net Worth

Akosua Adoma Owusu is one of the richest Film Director from Ghana. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Akosua Adoma Owusu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Akosua Adoma Owusu (born January 1, 1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker, producer and cinematographer whose films and installation work have screened worldwide in prestigious film festivals, museums, galleries, universities and microcinemas since 2005. Her films often 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.

Her “warring consciousness” as she describes it, becomes the point of departure for her film Me broni ba (my white baby). Using hair as a medium of culture, she examines African and African-American identities and ideologies in an effort to resolve their differences. Ed Halter, one of the founders of Light Industry in Brooklyn, listed Me Broni Ba as one of 2010’s top ten films in Artforum magazine.

She has produced award-winning films including Reluctantly Queer and Kwaku Ananse. In 2013, Kwaku Ananse received a Golden Bear nomination at the Berlinale and won the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Award for the West African nation of Ghana in the Best Short Film category. The film was supported by the Africa First award sponsored by Focus Features and had its North American debut at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Kwaku Ananse also participated in the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma – César Golden Nights Panorama of Best Short Films, a program that selects notable short films awarded that year.

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Her film Reluctantly Queer (2016) produced in collaboration with Dr. Kwame Edwin Otu, an Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia was nominated for the Golden Bear and Teddy Award at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival. It had its North American premiere as part of the New Directors/New Films Festival held under the auspices of the Film Society Lincoln Center and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The film eventually aired on the American Documentary POV (TV series) for Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

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Akosua Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ghana. Akosua Adoma Owusu celebrates birthday on January 1 of every year.

In 2017, The Guardian announced that Akosua Adoma Owusu was working on a part- real life, part-fictionalized feature film about her campaign to restore Accra’s historic Rex cinema.