Akosua Adoma Owusu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Akosua Adoma Owusu

American film director

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1984

Place of Birth: Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Profession: screenwriter, film director

Nationality: United States, Ghana

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Akosua Adoma Owusu (born January 1, 1984) is a Ghanaian-American avant-garde 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.She is an Assistant Professor of Non-Fiction and Expanded Cinema at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.