• 2021

    Drexciya
    Henry Art Gallery
    Drive-in on the Boards
    Saturday, May 15th, 2021, 8-9:30pm
    Seattle, WA

  • 2021

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Laboratory for the Urban Commons
    Every Cinema
    with Museum of Impossible Forms and Kenno Filmi
    May 13th, 2021-May 16th, 2021
    Greece

  • 2021

    Save the Rex
    Anthology Film Archives
    AFA 50th Anniversary: Program 2
    April 21st - May 31st, 2021
    New York, NY

  • 2021

    King of Sanwi
    Ann Arbor Film Festival
    Films in Competition: 14
    March 23rd - March 31st, 2021
    Ann Arbor, MI

  • 2021

    Retrospective
    The Criterion Channel
    online premiere
    Short Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    February 2021 - February 2023

  • 2021

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    28th New York African Film Festival
    Recurring Dreams & Women's Voices
    Film at Lincoln Center
    February 4th - February 14th, 2021
    New York, NY

  • 2021

    White Afro
    Locarno Film Festival
    Locarno Shorts Weeks #2
    February 2nd - February 8th, 2021
    Locarno, Switzerland

  • 2020

    Intermittent Delight
    Centre Pompidou
    Global(e) Resistance
    July 29, 2020 - January 4, 2021
    Paris, France

  • 2020

    King of Sanwi
    guest curated by Dan Sullivan
    The Brooklyn Rail Holiday Series
    Holiday Film Series
    December 28th, 2020
    Brooklyn, NY

  • 2020

    White Afro
    Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
    Public Eye, Private I
    Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 7pm
    Bucharest, Romania

  • 2020

    King of Sanwi
    in partnership with Speller Street Films and The Luminal Theater
    Maysles Documentary Center
    BLK Instant Ancestry
    November 13th – November 26th 2020
    New York, NY

  • 2020

    King of Sanwi
    BFI London Film Festival
    Exposing Territories
    October 6, 2020 - October 17, 2020
    United Kingdom, London

  • 2020

    King of Sanwi
    New York Film Festival
    Currents: Free Radicals
    September 23, 2020 - September 28, 2020
    New York, NY

  • 2020

    Kwaku Ananse
    Me Broni Ba
    curated by Grasshopper Film
    Projectr (free streaming)
    Black Lives, Black Stories
    June 2020
    New York, NY

  • 2020

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    We Are One: A Global Festival
    NYFF Shorts Program 2: A Passion for Films
    in association with Tribeca Film Festival
    Tuesday, June 7th, 2020, 11:55am
    New York, NY

  • 2020

    White Afro
    Vienna Shorts
    Me & Society
    Tuesday, May 29th, 2020, 9:30pm
    Vienna, Austria

  • 2020

    Akosua Adoma Owusu receives the 2020 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists

  • 2020

    White Afro
    Ann Arbor Film Festival
    Opening Night: Films in Competition 1
    Tuesday, March 24th, 2020, 5pm
    Ann Arbor, MI

  • 2020

    Welcome to the Jungle
    introduction with Lynne Sachs & Mark Street
    MoMA Doc Fortnight
    curated by Josh Siegel
    North American premiere
    Saturday, February 8th, 2020, 4:30pm
    New York, NY

  • 2020

    White Afro
    screening with Kitwana's Journey by Ng'endo Mukii
    Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
    African Perspectives
    February 1st-Februrary 8th
    Clermont-Ferrand, France

  • 2020

    Mahogany Too
    Aurora Picture Show
    Eyeslicer Season 2
    Saturday, February 1st, 2020, 7:30PM
    Houston, TX

  • 2020

    Reluctantly Queer
    with Dr. Kwame Edwin Otu
    POV Shorts - American Documentary
    Post-colonial Queer
    Monday, January 20th, 2020, 12pm
    New York, NY

  • 2020

    Film Comment Talk
    Film at Lincoln Center
    with Nicolas Rapold
    Varda by Filmmakers
    Friday, January 3rd, 2020, 6pm

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    Acropolis Cinema
    Projections: Los Angeles
    December 7th, 2019, 7:30pm
    Hollywood, CA

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    Urban Video Project
    Everson Museum of Art
    November 21st, 2019, 6pm-8pm
    Syracuse, New York

  • 2019

    Solo Presentation
    Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
    Meet the Artist: Akosua Adoma Owusu
    in conversation with John Canciani
    November 20th, 2019
    Winterthur, Switzerland

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    Zinebi61
    Concurso Internacional (Cortometrajes)
    November 11th, 2019, 8pm
    Bilbao, Spain

  • 2019

    White Afro
    Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
    Shifting the Norm
    November 6th, 2019, 4:30pm
    November 8th, 2019, 10pm
    Winterthur, Switzerland

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    screening with Vever (For Barbara) by Deborah Stratman
    Denver Film Festival
    Shorts 4: Avant-Garde
    Saturday, November 2nd, 2019, 4:30 PM
    Sunday, November 3rd, 2 PM
    Friday November 8th, 1:15 PM
    Denver, Colorado

  • 2019

    Solo Exhibition
    Contemporary Art Center New Orleans
    Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle
    curated by Kim Nguyen. organized by Andrea Andersson
    Saturday, November 2, 2019 - Sunday, February 2, 2020
    New Orleans, LA

  • 2019

    Solo Program
    38th Uppsala International Short Film Festival
    Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Saturday, October 26th, 5pm
    Uppsala, Sweden

  • 2019

    Solo Program
    in conversation with Åsa Bharathi Larsson (Södertörn University)
    38th Uppsala International Short Film Festival
    Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Saturday October 26th, 12pm
    Uppsala, Sweden

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    38th Uppsala International Short Film Festival
    Return to Sender
    Tuesday, October 22nd, 7pm
    Friday, October 25th, 11am
    Uppsala, Sweden

  • 2019

    Akosua Adoma Owusu on the Jury: National Competition for 38th Uppsala International Short Film Festival
    October 21st-October 27th, 2019
    Uppsala, Sweden

  • 2019

    Akosua Adoma Owusu awarded the Villa Sträuli residency for Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
    October 16th, 2019 - November 30th 2019
    Winterthur, Switzerland

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    Festival du nouveau cinéma
    Les Nouveaux Alchimistes 2
    Saturday, October 12th, 2019, 5:15pm
    Sunday, October 13th, 2019, 9:15pm
    Montreal, Canada

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    screening with Bakoso: Afrobeats of Cuba
    Baltimore International Black Film Festival
    Charles Theater
    Friday, October 11th, 2019, 11am
    Baltimore, MD

  • 2019

    Solo Screening
    The University of Toronto
    Interdisciplinary Approaches to the films of Akosua Adoma Owusu
    The Aesthetics of Triple Consciousness
    organized by Julie MacArthur
    Wednesday, October 9th, 2019, 5PM
    Toronto, Canada

  • 2019

    On Monday of Last Week
    Kwaku Ananse
    Higher Learning: Akosua Adoma Owusu Art of Adaptation
    TIFF Bell Lightbox
    Tuesday, October 8th, 2019, 6pm
    Toronto, Canada

  • 2019

    Solo Screening
    Women and Gender Studies Feminist Lunch Series
    University of Toronto Mississauga
    Between Three Worlds
    Tuesday, October 8th, 2019, 12:30-1:30pm
    Toronto, ON

  • 2019

    Solo Screening
    Toronto International Film Festival
    curated by Julie MacArthur
    Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    TIFF Bell Lightbox
    Monday, October 7th, 2019, 7pm
    Toronto, Canada

  • 2019

    White Afro
    CinemAfrica Sweden
    Zita sön
    October 6th, 2019, 5:30pm
    Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    screening with Afro-Brazilian Struggle For Rights: Gilda Brasileiro
    CinemAfrica Sweden
    Bio Valentino
    October 6th, 2019 7pm - 9pm
    Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2019

    Film Comment Podcast
    Film at Lincoln Center
    NYFF57 Filmmakers Chat
    October 5th, 2019

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    57th New York Film Festival
    Projections Program 5: On the Move
    Film at Lincoln Center
    co-curated by Dennis Lim & Aily Nash
    Saturday, October 5th, 2019, 7:15 PM
    Sunday, October 6th, 2019, 4 PM
    New York, NY

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    BFI London Film Festival
    Strategies of Refusal
    Saturday, October 5th, 2019 12:30
    London, UK

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    Uppsala konstmuseum
    Pre-View – Uppsala Int Short Film Festival 2019
    Thursday, September 26th, 2019, 5pm
    Uppsala, Sweden

  • 2019

    Intermittent Delight
    Aurora Picture Show
    Powerful Vulnerable
    Friday, September 20th, 7:30PM
    Houston, TX

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    Afrikana Film Festival
    1708 Gallery
    Saturday, September 14th 2019, 1:15PM
    Richmond, Virginia

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    30th São Paulo International Short Film Festival
    Curta Kinoforum
    August 22, 2019, 7:30PM - CineSESC
    August 24, 2019, 5PM - Espaço Itaú de Cinema
    August 25, 2019, 9PM - Cinemateca Brasileira - sala BNDES
    São Paulo, Brazil

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    San Diego Underground Film Festival
    Tenth Avenue Arts
    Saturday, August 24th, 2019
    San Diego, CA

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    Wexner Center for the Arts
    Eyeslicer Season 2
    Friday, August 23th, 7PM
    Saturday, August 24th, 7PM
    Columbus, Ohio

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    Bronzelens Film Festival
    Hyatt Regency Atlanta
    August 23rd, 2019, 4:30pm
    Atlanta, Georgia

  • 2019

    White Afro wins Premio Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Prize in Pardi di domani at the
    Locarno Film Festival
    Locarno, Switzerland

  • 2019

    White Afro
    72nd Locarno Film Festival
    Pardi di domani
    August 7th-17st, 2019
    Locarno, Switzerland

  • 2019

    Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    + workshop
    Cinema Camp
    Electrified Identities
    August 8th-August 11th, 2019
    Vilnius, Lithuania

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    Melbourne International Film Festival
    Collins Auditorium
    August 6th, 2019 9 pm
    August 12th 2019, 6:45pm
    Melbourne, Australia

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    Guanajuato International Film Festival
    Experimental Competition
    July 21st, 2019, 12pm
    July 25th, 2019, 7pm
    Guanajuato, MX

  • 2019

    Reluctantly Queer
    broadcast premiere with The Gospel of Eureka
    POV Shorts - Season 2
    POV - Acclaimed Documentary Films
    Monday, June 24, 2019, 10pm
    Lafayette St, New York

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    Reluctantly Queer
    La Cinémathèque française
    la Cinémathèque
    Sunday, June 22, 2019
    Paris, France

  • 2019

    Me Broni Ba
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Hair Stories Collected by Nancy Buchanan
    Book Launch
    June 15th, 2019, 3-5pm
    Los Angeles, CA

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    Special Jury Mention at Videoex Festival Films
    International Competition
    Zürich, Switzerland

  • 2019

    Reluctantly Queer
    LA FilmForum
    Representations of Leaving: Queer Death and heavens
    Sunday, June 2, 2019, 7:30 pm
    Los Angeles, CA

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    New York Shorts International
    Shorts Program: 3
    Friday, May 31st, 9:15pm
    New York, NY

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    Videoex Festival Films
    International Competition of the Videoex
    May 25th, 2019, 2pm
    June 1, 2019, 4pm
    Zürich, Switzerland

  • 2019

    Intermittent Delight
    Anthology Film Archives
    Not Sorry: Consumer
    Sunday, May 12th, 7:30 PM
    New York, NY

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    Maryland Film Festival
    Unortho-Docs Shorts
    Friday, May 10th, 7:15 PM
    Saturday, May 11th, 11:30 AM
    Baltimore, MD

  • 2019

    Solo Screening
    in conversation with The Black Aesthetic
    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
    Triple Consciousness: Akosua Adoma Owusu
    May 11th, 2019, 2pm
    San Francisco, CA

  • 2019

    Solo Exhibition
    CCA Wattis Institute
    Welcome to the Jungle
    Akosua Adoma Owusu
    May 9th, 2019 –July 27th, 2019
    San Francisco, CA

  • 2019

    Solo Screening
    REDCAT
    Between Three Worlds
    Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    May 6th, 2019, 8:30 pm
    Los Angeles, CA

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
    Where We Live/Where We Stay
    April 27th, 2019, 8pm
    Milwaukee, WI

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    Hot Docs Festival
    Persister Shorts
    Friday, April 26th, 5:30 PM
    Toronto, Canada

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    The Lyric
    Eyeslicer Season 2
    Apríl 26th, 2019
    Fort Collins, Colorado

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    Experiments in Cinema v14.2
    Experiment 4
    April 17th, 2019, 2:30-3:30pm
    Albuquerque, NM

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    San Francisco International Film Festival
    New Visions Competition
    Friday, April 14th, 7 PM
    Mon, April 22nd, 6 PM
    San Francisco, CA

  • 2019

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful with
    Evidentiary Bodies by Barbara Hammer
    Internationales Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund | Köln e.V.
    Image traps: Illusion, camouflage, maquerade
    April 14th, 2019, 4pm
    Dortmund, Köln

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    Dallas International Film Festival
    Documentary Shorts Competition
    Friday, April 12th, 4:45 PM
    Saturday, April 13th, 2:30 PM
    Dallas, TX

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    Athens International Film & Video Festival
    The Future is Experimental
    Monday, April 8th, 7:15 PM
    Athens, OH

  • 2019

    Solo Show
    Museu de arte de São PauloAssis Chateaubriand
    Sala de vídeo: Akosua Adoma Owusu
    April 5th, 2019-June 2nd, 2019
    São Paulo, Brazil

  • 2019

    On Monday of Last Week
    All Shorts Irvington Film Festival
    In the Blink of an Eye
    Saturday, March 30th, 2019, 7:30pm
    Irvington, NY

  • 2019

    Juror Presentation
    Ann Arbor Film Festival
    Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Friday, March 29th, 2019
    Ann Arbor, MI

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    Onion City Experimental Festival
    The Tension Here
    Friday, March 22, 2019
    Chicago, IL

  • 2019

    Solo Screening
    Institute for Contemporary Art
    ICA Cinema Series
    Triple Consciousness: Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Wednesday, March 13th 6pm
    Richmond, VA

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too with
    Rafiki by Wanuri Kahiu
    The Lexi Cinema
    International Women's Day
    Friday, March 8th, 2019, 6:40pm
    London, UK

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    Cosmic Rays Film Festival
    Program 1
    February 28th, 2019
    Chapel Hill, NC

  • 2019

    Solo Screening
    Vertical Cinema
    Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Thursday, February 28, 2019. 7 PM
    Iowa City, IA

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    Museum of Modern Art
    The Future of Film is Female
    EyeSlicer Season 2
    February 17th 2019, 7pm
    New York, NY

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    Echo Park Film Center
    Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour
    Thursday, February 7th, 8PM
    Ann Arbor, MI

  • 2019

    Kwaku Ananse
    DePaul University
    Centre for Black Diaspora
    Winter Quarter Film Series: Afrofuturism
    February 5th, 2019, 4:30-6:00 p.m

  • 2019

    Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    International Film Festival Rotterdam
    Bright Future
    January 25th, 2019, 7pm
    Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  • 2019

    Mahogany Too
    London Short Film Festival
    A Constellation of Cosmic Queens
    January 19th 2019, 3 pm
    London, UK

  • 2019

    Reluctantly Queer
    International Film Festival Rotterdam
    Young Selectors Presentation
    Special Presentation
    January 17th, 2019, 7pm
    Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  • 2019

    Solo Screening
    MCA Chicago
    Screening: Akosua Adoma Owusu
    January 11th, 2019, 7pm

  • 2018

    Intermittent Delight
    Cobo Center Marquee
    Video Display series
    Detroit, MI
    December 1st - December 31st, 2018

  • 2018

    Bus Nut
    Sexual Politics &
    Fabulated Pasts, Speculative Futures
    Brown University
    Black Feminist Theory Project
    co-presented by Magic Lantern Cinema
    December 10th, 2018

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    Cinequebradas - Conversas de Cinema Negra
    Boa vista do São Caetano, Salvador
    December 8th, 2018
    Salvador-Bahia, Brazil

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Latinoamericano Cine Del Nuevo International Festival
    Program 4: Group Show
    December 5th-December 10th, 2018
    La Habana, Cuba

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    Afrikana Film Festival
    Candela Books & Art Gallery
    November 29th-December 2, 2018, 4:45pm
    Richmond, Virginia

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    Girls In Film
    Sthenjwa Luthuli Studio
    November 16th, 2018, 6:30pm
    Durban, South Africa

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Houston Cinema Arts Society
    Compressed AIR: Recent Experimental Films and Videos
    November 11th, 2018 1pm
    Houston, TX

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
    Shorts in Competition
    November 8th, 2018, 5pm
    November 10th, 2018, 2:30pm
    Winterthur, Switzerland

  • 2018

    Kwaku Ananse
    Festival Internacional de Cinema de Praia
    Plateau Film Festival
    'No Wahala' African Women Shorts
    November 2018
    Cape Verde

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    OUT Film Festival Nairobi
    Goethe-Institut Kenya
    November 7th-10th, 2018
    Nairobi, Kenya

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    screening with Mahogany by Berry Gordy
    Indie Memphis Film Festival
    Mahogany with Mahogany Too
    Friday, November 2nd, 9:10 PM
    Sunday, November 4th, 9:40 PM
    Memphis, Tennessee

  • 2018

    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    Northwest Film Center
    Not Sorry: Feminist Experimental Film from the 1970s to Today
    October 28th, 2018
    Portland, OR

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
    Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film
    UNC Stone Center
    October 25th, 2018, 7pm
    Chapel Hill, NC

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    New Orleans Film Festival
    Cinema Reset
    October 19th, 2018
    October 21st, 2018
    New Orleans, Louisiana

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    in conversation with
    Margarita de La Vega Hurtado, Sally Berger + more
    Aurora Picture Show
    Powerful Vulnerable
    October 19th, 2018 - October 20th, 2018
    Houston, TX

  • 2018

    Kwaku Ananse
    Duke University
    Experimental and Documentary Cinema Salon
    Mythic Overtures
    October 14th, 2018, 6pm
    Durham, NC

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Reluctantly Queer
    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    BOZAR Cinema
    Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
    Bruxelles, Brussels

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    with Esosa E
    BFI London Film Festival
    Is it Me Or Is it the World?
    October 14th, 2018 6:10pm
    Southbank, London

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Haverhill Film Festival
    Experimental Shorts
    October 12th, 2018, 9pm
    Haverhill, MA

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    AntiMatter Media Art Festival
    Camera Threat
    October 11th, 2018, 7pm, Deluge
    Victoria, BC Canada

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Reluctantly Queer
    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Drexciya
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    Triple Consciousness: Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Center for Documentary Arts and Research
    October 8th, 2018
    Santa Cruz, CA

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Drunken Film Festival
    The Layover
    October 7th, 2018, 7pm
    Oakland, CA

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Curtocircuíto International Film Festival
    Explora Short Film Competition
    October 6th, 2018, 10pm
    Santiago de Compostela, Spain

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    screening with Valeria Street by Janie Geiser
    New York Film Festival
    Projections: Place Revisited
    co-curated by Dennis Lim and Aily Nash
    October 5th, 2018, 2:30pm
    October 6th, 2018, 6pm
    New York, NY

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    Baltimore International Black Film Festival
    Hole and Corner Shorts
    October 5th, 2018, 4pm
    Baltimore, Maryland

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Northern Michigan University
    Northern Michigan University
    September 25th, 2018
    Marquette, MI

  • 2018

    Me Broni Ba
    Museu de arte de São Paulo
    Afro-Atlantic Histories
    September 2018 - October 2018
    São Paulo, Brazil

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Women and Film
    Short Films and Conversation
    Ace Hotel Segovia Hall
    Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
    Los Angeles, CA

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Queer Lisboa - International Queer Film Festival
    Cinema São Jorge
    Sunday, September 16th, 2018, 7:15pm
    Lisbon, Portugal

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    University of Cachoeira
    Escola Pública Vila das Artes
    "Carne Viva"
    September 13th, 2018
    Ceara City, Brazil

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Indie Memphis Festival
    Ann Arbor Tour Program
    September 12th, 2018
    Memphis, Tennessee

  • 2018

    Kwaku Ananse
    Bowers Museum
    Norma Kershaw Auditorium
    September 9th, 2018
    1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
    Santa Ana, CA

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    screening with La Fée aux Choux by Alice Guy-Blaché
    ATLAS Arts
    Dunvegan Castle
    Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story + Shorts
    September 5th, 2018, 7.00pm - 10.00pm
    Skye, Scotland

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    Black Harvest Film Festival
    Women of Color
    Tuesday, August 28th, 2018, 6pm
    Wednesday, August 29th, 2018, 8pm
    Chicago, Illinois

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    San Diego Underground Film Festival
    your mileage may vary
    Sun, August 26th, 2:30PM
    San Diego, CA

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    Bronzelens Film Festival
    All Shorts
    Sponsored by BET Networks
    Saturday, August 25th, 2018, 10:30am
    Atlanta, Georgia

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    NewFilmmakers Los Angeles
    Shorts Program #1
    Developing Nations
    Saturday, August 25th, 2018, 4:30PM
    Los Angeles, CA

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    The Wexner Center for the Arts
    co-presented by Columbus Black International Film Festival
    The Skin I’m In: Queer Black Shorts
    Thursday, August 23rd, 2018 4:30pm
    Columbus, OH

  • 2018

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    screening with work by Lorna Simpson
    and Mickalene Thomas
    Anthology Film Archives
    Feminism(s)
    organized by International Center of Photography
    Portraiture and Personhood in Film and Video Art
    of the 21st Century
    August 19th, 2018 8:30pm
    New York, NY

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    On Monday of Last Week
    Reluctantly Queer
    Kwaku Ananse
    Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival
    Mostra Akosua Adoma Owusu
    August 19th, 2018, 5pm
    Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  • 2018

    Bus Nut
    Drexciya
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival
    Mostra Akosua Adoma Owusu
    August 18th, 2018, 4:30pm
    Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    filmmaker in attendance

  • 2018

    Me Broni Ba
    screening with Selbe: One Among Many by Safi Faye
    Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival
    SESSÃO DE ABERTURA
    August 10th, 2018, 8:30pm
    Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Squeaky Wheel's 15th Animation Festival
    Merriweather Library
    August 4th, 2018
    Buffalo, NY

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    Bus Nut
    Drexciya
    Me Broni Ba
    CINUSP Paulo Emílio
    University of São Paulo
    Avant-garde Women
    July 30th, 2018, 7pm
    São Paulo, Brazil
    filmmaker in attendance

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    Africa Film Trinidad & Tobago Festival
    The Little Carib Theatre
    Friday, July 27, 2018, 8pm
    Trinidad & Tobago

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    Kwaku Ananse
    Drexciya
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    Espaço Itaú de Cinema Glauber Rocha
    in association with Goethe-Bahia Vila Sul
    Consciência tríplice: filmes de Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Friday, July 13th, 2018, 7pm
    Salvador-Bahia, Brazil
    filmmaker in attendance

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    Kwaku Ananse
    Drexciya
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    Cineclube Mario Gusmão
    in association with Goethe-Bahia Vila Sul
    Mostra Cineasta Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Thursday, July 12th, 2018, 7pm
    Cachoeira, Brazil
    filmmaker in attendance

  • 2018

    Kwaku Ananse
    Drexciya
    Imagine Science Films
    July Issue (#24) "Afro Space"
    July 3th-Aug 7th, 2018
    Brooklyn, NY

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    Kwaku Ananse
    Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA London)*
    Daughters of Africa Screen Narratives
    Friday, June 29th, 2018, 4pm
    London, UK

  • 2018

    Me Broni Ba
    NordestLab
    in association with Goethe-Bahia Vila Sul
    Goethe Apoia
    Friday, June 28th, 2018, 3:50pm
    Salvador-Bahia, Brazil

  • 2018

    Me Broni Ba
    screening with work by Abderrahmane Sissako
    & Alice Diop
    La Virreina Centrede La imatge
    Cinema Accentuat
    curated by Beatriz Leal Riesco
    June 21st, 2018
    Barcelona, Spain

  • 2018

    Me Broni Ba
    screening with work by
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul &
    Djibril Diop Mambety
    Sheffield Doc/Festival
    Shorts Competition
    June 11th, 2018, 7pm
    Sheffield, UK

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Chicago Underground Film Festival
    Revealed Manifestation
    Saturday, June 9th, 2018, 2pm
    Chicago, Illinois

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    CROSSROADS 2018 program 3
    Saturday, June 9th, 2018 at 12pm
    San Francisco, CA

  • 2018

    Akosua Adoma Owusu awarded artist-in-residence at
    Goethe-Institut Vila Sul
    Artist-in-Residence
    June 4th, 2018-July 27th, 2018
    Salvador-Bahia, Brazil

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
    Fever Dreams + Reveries
    June 2nd, 2018, 7pm
    Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

  • 2018

    Drexciya
    Hidden Door Festival
    in association with African in Motion Festival
    The Tasting Place
    Monday, May 28th, 2018, 6pm
    Edinburgh, Scotland

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    Seattle International Film Festival
    ShortsFest Opening Night
    SIFF Uptown Theater
    Thursday, May 24th, 2018, 7PM
    Seattle, Washington

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    screening with Selbe: One Among Many by Safi Faye
    New York African Film Festival
    programmed by Mahen Bonetti
    Film Society of Lincoln Center
    in conversation with Safi Faye
    Tuesday, May 22nd, 6:00pm
    New York, NY

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    Cannes Film Festival
    Short Film Corner
    May 8th-19th, 2018
    Cannes, France

  • 2018

    Intermittent Delight
    McNay Art Museum
    Fragments of a Dream
    May 8th, 2018-September 9th, 2018
    San Antonio, TX

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Maryland Film Festival
    Shorts: Diverging Forms
    Saturday, May 5th, 1:30pm
    Sunday, May 6th, 11:30am
    Baltimore, MD

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    Dallas International Film Festival
    Documentary Shorts 1: Stories from America
    Shorts Competition
    Friday, May 4th, 5pm
    Saturday, May 5th, 2:15pm
    Dallas, Texas

  • 2018

    Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
    in association with LUX and Robert Flaherty Seminar
    Oberhausen Film Seminar 2018
    May 3th-May 7th, 2018
    Oberhausen, Germany

  • 2018

    Me Broni Ba
    IU Libraries Moving Image Archive
    Video, Now, Now, Now
    Monday, April 23rd, 2018, 7:30pm
    Bloomington, Indiana

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Images Film Festival
    Shorts Program
    programmed by Aily Nash
    Friday April 20th, 2018, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    Toronto, Ontario

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
    Cité internationale des arts
    Pop hybridation
    Friday, April 13th, 2018, 7PM
    Paris, France

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Athens International Film + Video Festival
    Future Vision
    Films in Competition
    Thursday, April 12th, 2018, 3:30pm
    Athens, OH

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    IV Fronteira Festival
    Shorts Program
    Friday, April 12th-20th, 2018
    Goiás, Brazil

  • 2018

    Akosua Adoma Owusu awarded 2018 Mellon Research Grant
    by History of Art & Design, Pratt Institute

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    On Monday of Last Week
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Fowler Museum
    in conversation with curator Jamillah James
    Screening and Conversation: On Monday of Last Week
    Wednesday, April 11th, 2018, 7-9pm

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    Experiments in Cinema
    Experiment Africa: Body & Soul
    African American Performing Arts Center
    Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
    Albuquerque, NM

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    San Francisco International Film Festival
    New Visions Competition
    Saturday, April 7th, 2018, 7:30 PM
    Monday, April 16th, 2018, 4:30 PM
    San Francisco, California

  • 2018

    Owusu awarded 2017-2018 Faculty Development Fund at Pratt Institute

  • 2018

    Kwaku Ananse
    aCinema
    Shorts Program
    April 6th, 2018 at 7PM
    Milwaukee, WI

  • 2018

    Me Broni Ba
    screening with work by Kara Walker
    Centre Pompidou
    Black Dolls, la collection Deborah Neff
    Maison Rouge
    Sunday, March 25th, 8pm-10pm
    Paris, France

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Ann Arbor Film Festival
    Films in Competition 11
    Saturday, March 24th 9:30 PM
    Ann Arbor, MI

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    Bus Nut
    Mahogany Too
    Reluctantly Queer
    Kwaku Ananse
    University of Richmond
    The Fire This Time
    March 20th, 2018, 8pm

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    Queer Week
    Shorts Program
    March 16th-24th, 2018
    Paris, France

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    Onion City Experimental Film Festival
    Shorts Program 5: Sensing
    Sunday, March 11th, 3:30 pm
    Chicago, Illinois

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    Tampere Film Festival
    Queerscenes
    March 7th-11th, 2018
    Tampere, Finland

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    Massimadi Festival te Brussel
    Shorts Program
    March 3rd - March 5th 2018
    Brussels, Belgium

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    CinemAfrica Sweden
    Shorts & Videos: Identity
    International Premiere
    March 3th, 2018, 4pm
    March 4th, 2018, 6pm
    Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    CinemAfrica Sweden
    Shorts & Videos: Identity
    March 3th, 2018, 4pm
    March 4th, 2018, 6pm
    Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2018

    Kwaku Ananse
    screening with Berlinale Shorts
    ARTE Germany
    February 24th, 2018, 11:45pm
    Germany

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse
    Big Muddy Film Festival
    Juror Presentation
    February 19th-25th 2018
    Carbondale, Illinois

  • 2018

    On Monday of Last Week
    Pan African Film & Arts Festival
    World Premiere
    Shorts Program
    Fri, Feb 9th, 2018, 6:30pm
    Sun, Feb 11th, 2018, 3:50pm
    Sun, Feb 18th, 2018 9:45pm

  • 2018

    2018 National Scholastic Film Juror
    Thursday, February 8, 2018, 10am-5pm
    New York, NY

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    Kwaku Ananse
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Drexciya
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    Temple University
    organized by Elisabeth Subrin
    February 7th 2018, 5:30PM-6:30PM
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • 2018

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    screening with Spike Lee's Crooklyn
    Nickelodeon Theatre
    Crooklyn / Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    February 5th 2018, 6:30PM
    Columbia, SC

  • 2018

    Intermittent Delight
    The Big Screen: Cobo Art Marquee Series
    Cobo Center
    February 1st - February 28th 2018
    Detroit, MI

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    screening with Bayard and Me by Matt Wolf
    LGBT Center at Ohio University
    Out at the Movies: Athena Cinema
    Thursday, January 25th, 2018
    Athens, OH

  • 2018

    Mahogany Too
    International Film Festival Rotterdam
    World Premiere
    PACT: Pan African Cinema Today
    Thursday, January 25th, 2018 4:30pm
    Saturday, January 27th, 2018 12pm
    Rotterdam, Netherlands

  • 2018

    Reluctantly Queer
    KASKcinema
    Shorts Program
    January 11th, 2018
    Ghent, Belgium

  • 2018

    Intermittent Delight
    National Gallery of Art
    Affinities or The Weight of Cinema
    January 7th, 2018, 4PM
    Washington D.C.

  • 2017

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    screening with Car Wash
    Toronto International Film Festival
    Black Star
    Saturday, December 16th 2017, 3:15pm
    Toronto, Ontario

  • 2017

    Drexciya
    Flaherty NYC
    Anthology Film Archives
    Monday, December 11th, 2017, 7pm
    New York, NY

  • 2017

    Kwaku Ananse
    Me Broni Ba
    Union Docs
    A Letter to the World: Experiments in Essay Filmmaking
    hosted by Lynne Sachs
    Saturday, December 9th, 2017, 10am-12pm
    Brooklyn, NY

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    International Queer & Migrant Film Festival
    Shorts Program
    December 6th-10th, 2017
    Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • 2017

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    Spectacle Theater
    An Evening with Akosua Adoma Owusu
    guest programmed by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Sunday, October, 22nd 2017, 8pm
    Brooklyn, NY

  • 2017

    Drexciya
    Africa in Motion Festival
    The Project Cafe
    Saturday, November 4th, 2017, 7pm
    Glasgow, Scotland

  • 2017

    Bus Nut
    Baltimore International Black Film Festival
    Save the Children
    Thursday, October 5th, 2017, 5:05pm
    Baltimore, MD

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    Queer Lisboa - International Queer Film Festival
    Shorts Program
    October 4th - October 8th 2017
    Lisboa, Portugal

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse
    Purchase College, State University of New York
    Diversity at Purchase
    Monday, September 20th, 2017, 3pm
    Purchase, NY

  • 2017

    Bus Nut
    Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA London)
    Avant-Noir Volume 3
    Monday, September 20th, 2017, 6:45pm
    UK, London

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    Bus Nut
    Afrikana Film Festival
    Akosua Adoma Owusu
    organized by Enjoli Moon
    Saturday, September 15th, 2017, 1pm
    Richmond, Virginia

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse
    Me Broni Ba
    Union Docs
    A Letter to the World: Experiments in Essay Filmmaking
    Friday, September 8th, 2017, 7pm
    Sunday, September 10th, 2017, 10am
    Brooklyn, NY
    filmmaker in attendance

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    screening with The Wound
    World Cinema Amsterdam
    Gay Africa
    Sunday, August 20th, 2017, 4:45pm, 9:20pm
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    Stockholm Pride
    Intersections: Mapping the Queer Body
    August 4th, 2017, 3pm–5:45pm
    Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2017

    Kwaku Ananse
    Gemeente Amsterdam
    Akosua Adoma Owusu
    July 17th, 2017 - September 17th, 2017
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • 2017

    Akosua Adoma Owusu's film On Monday of Last Week
    secures 2017 Africa Movie Academy Award nomination

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
    Haus der Kulturen der Welt
    Exile
    Sunday, June 18th, 2017, 5pm
    Berlin, Germany

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    Toronto Queer Film Festival
    Queer Geographies, Resistant Histories
    June 16th, 2017, 9pm
    Toronto, Canada

  • 2017

    Bus Nut
    Northwest Film Center
    Constructing Identity
    May 26th, 2017
    June 2nd, 2017
    Portland, Oregon

  • 2017

    Bus Nut
    Atlanta Contemporary
    Akosua Adoma Owusu
    May 16th, 2017 – June 18th, 2017
    Atlanta, Georgia

  • 2017

    Kwaku Ananse
    DIY Queen: Underground Documentaries of
    Sarah Jacobson Film Grant
    UnionDocs
    May 15th, 2017, 7:30pm
    Brooklyn, NY

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    Festival de Cine Africano - FCAT
    Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Monday, May 1, 2017, 5pm
    Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 7:15pm
    Sevilla, Spain

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    screening with Dakan by Mohamed Camara
    The New School
    Queerness Across the Diaspora Panel
    April 30th, 2017, 2:30pm-7:30pm
    New York, NY

  • 2017

    Drexciya
    Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
    mumok cinema
    Posthuman Complicities
    Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 7pm
    Vienna, Austria

  • 2017

    Split Ends, I feel Wonderful
    Museum of Modern Art
    with The Studio Museum in Harlem
    Re-Presenting the Archive: An Evening of Shorts
    Thursday, April 20, 2017 7pm
    New York, NY

  • 2017

    Drexciya
    Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
    Museum of Modern Art
    April 13th, 2017
    Warsaw, Poland

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    Kwaku Ananse
    Bus Nut
    Me Broni Ba
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Intermittent Delight
    First Person Cinema: Akosua Adoma Owusu
    University of Colorado Boulder
    Monday, April 10th, 2017, 7pm
    Boulder, Colorado

  • 2017

    Kwaku Ananse
    Cinewax
    Univerciné, Paris 3 University
    March 23rd, 2017
    Paris, France

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival
    British Film Institute
    Sunday, March 19th, 2017 4pm
    Wednesday, March 22th, 2017, 8:45pm
    London, UK

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
    Gaîté Lyrique Lyrique
    Saturday, March 18th, 2017, 4:30 PM
    Paris, France

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
    African Film Festival: Towards Tenderness
    curated by Kathy Geritz
    Sunday, March 12th 2017, 7PM
    Berkeley, California

  • 2017

    Intermittent Delight
    Kino Tuškanac
    Avant-Noir (Volume 1)
    March 7th, 2017
    Zagreb, Croatia

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    screening with Moonlight by Barry Jenkins
    Mardi Gras Film Festival
    Queer Screen
    Wednesday, March 1st, 2017, 8:30am
    Surry Hills, Australia

  • 2017

    Kwaku Ananse
    Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
    Recovering Voices Mother Tongue Film Festival
    Friday, February 24th, 2017, 2pm
    Washington, D.C.

  • 2017

    Kwaku Ananse
    in association with Stanford University
    African American Association of Ghana
    W.E.B. Du Bois Center
    February 23rd, 2017
    Accra, Ghana

  • 2017

    Kwaku Ananse
    Global Kids Mini Film Festival
    African Film Festival, Inc.
    Tuesday, February 21st, 2017, 12pm-2pm
    New York, NY

  • 2017

    Intermittent Delight
    screening with work by Eliza Hittman
    Far-Sighted: Pratt Institute Film/Video Faculty Exhibition
    Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery
    Thursday, February 2nd, 2017 - ­March 8, 2017

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    screening with two short films by Barry Jenkins
    International Film Festival Rotterdam
    Black Rebels: Let Love Rule
    Friday, January 27th, 2017, 3pm
    Wednesday, February 1st, 2017, 10am
    Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  • 2017

    Reluctantly Queer
    Never Apart
    Winter Exhibition Vernissage
    January 26th, 2017 - April 7th, 2017
    Montreal, Canada

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Queer Kampala International Film Festival
    Day Three program
    Sunday, December 11th, 2016, 7:30pm
    Kampala, Uganda

  • 2016

    Bus Nut
    Festival Cinema Jeune Public
    Compétition internationale
    November 26th, 2016, 2:00pm
    November 27th, 2016, 1:30pm
    Lausanne, Switzerland

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Festival Internacional de Arte & Cine Queer
    KUIR Bogotá
    The Best of GIFF 2016
    November 19th, 2016
    Bogotá Colombia

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Kwaku Ananse
    Drexciya
    Me Broni Ba
    Tyler School of the Art
    Critical Dialogues: Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 6PM
    Philadelphia, PA

  • 2016

    Kwaku Ananse
    screening with Wangechi Mutu’s The End of Carrying All
    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
    Houston Cinema Arts Festival
    Sunday, November 13th 2016, 3pm
    Houston, TX

  • 2016

    Intermittent Delight
    Whitney Museum of American Art
    Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016
    November 13th 2016, 3pm
    New York, NY

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Kwaku Ananse
    Me Broni Ba
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Houston Cinema Arts Festival
    Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    The Brandon gallery – Cafe Brasil
    Saturday, November 12th, 5:00p.m.

  • 2016

    Bus Nut
    screening with Bless Their Little Hearts
    Houston Cinema Arts Festival
    Houston Museum of African American Culture
    November 11th 2016, 7pm
    Houston, TX

  • 2016

    Drexciya
    Whitney Museum of American Art
    Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016
    November 6th 2016, 3pm
    New York, NY

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Afrikamera
    Out in Africa
    November 5th 2016, 7pm
    Berlin, Germany

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    screening with The Pearl of Africa
    Film Africa
    The Pearl of Africa Preview
    Thursday, November 3rd, 2016, 6:30pm
    Saturday, November 5th, 2016 4:00pm
    London, UK

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Hanoi International Film Festival
    Berlinale Spotlight – Program II
    November 4th, 2016, 1:00pm
    Hanoi, Vietnam

  • 2016

    Me Broni Ba
    Africa in Motion Film Festival
    Scotland African Film Festival
    November 1st, 2016
    Glasgow, Scotland

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Africa in Motion Film Festival
    Scotland African Film Festival
    November 1st, 2016
    Glasgow, Scotland

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival
    UWM Union Cinema
    October 23th, 2016 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    NewFest
    Boys Shorts
    Saturday, October 22th, 10:15 am
    New York, NY

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Morelia International Film Festival
    Berlinale Spotlight program
    October 21st-30th, 2016
    Morelia, Mexico

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg
    International Queer Film Festival
    URSULA Eintauchen - Mixed 1
    October 20th, 2016, 5:45pm
    Hamburg, Germany

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    screens with Daddy’s Boy
    New Orleans Film Festival
    Experimental Short Competition
    Friday, October 14th 8:30 pm
    Wednesday, October 19th 9:15pm
    New Orleans, Louisiana

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    BFI London Film Festival
    Returning and Repressing
    October 9th, 2016, 1PM
    London, UK

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Baltimore International Black Film Festival
    Shorts: Forever Transcend Us
    October 9th, 2016,12:00 PM
    Baltimore, Maryland

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    screening with Aligarh by Hansal Mehta
    Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
    Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
    Saturday, Oct 1, 2016 7pm
    Syracuse, New York

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Cinema Queer Festivalen 2016
    Under the Bridge
    October 1st, 2016, 9PM
    Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Sankofa Film Festival
    Lens Afrique
    September 25th, 2016, 2pm
    Minneapolis, Minnesota

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Kwaku Ananse
    Afrika Film Festival Köln
    Focus: Sisters in African Cinema
    September 15th-25th, 2016
    Cologne, Germany

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Rich Mix for Duckie Family
    Shorts Film Programme
    September 2nd, 2016, 6pm
    Rich Mix, London, UK

  • 2016

    Kwaku Ananse
    screening with Soeur Oyo
    by Monique Mbeka Phoba
    Africlap
    Lancement Officiel
    August 31st, 2016, 7pm-9pm
    Toulouse, France

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    BlackStar Film Festival
    Waging Wellness
    August 6th, 2016, 11:45am
    Philadelphia, PA

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Guanajuato International Film Festival
    Cortometraje Experimental 1
    July 23rd, 2016, 12 PM
    July 30th, 2016, 12 PM
    Guanajuato, Mexico

  • 2016

    Bus Nut
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    screening with works by Len Lye
    & Ken Jacobs
    Centre Pompidou
    Prospectif cinéma 2016
    Paris, France
    June 30th, 2016, 8pm

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Palm Springs International ShortFest
    Male Ga(y)ze
    June 23rd, 2016, 8 PM
    Palm Springs, CA

  • 2016

    Save the Rex
    Camargo Foundation
    Screenwriting Residency
    in association with Art Matters & Jerome Foundation
    Cassis, France
    June 2016 - July 2016

  • 2016

    Kwaku Ananse
    Afrikult
    Words that Travel: African Storytelling
    SOAS University of London, 12pm
    June 4th, 2016, 12PM
    London, UK

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    screening with Out of Iraq
    LA Film Festival
    Film Independent
    June 2nd, 2016, 7PM
    Los Angeles, CA

  • 2016

    Me Broni Ba
    Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival
    Hidden Door Multi-Art Festival
    May 27th, 2016-June 4rd, 2016
    Edinburgh, Scotland

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
    Docaviv 2016
    Thursday, May 26, 2015, 2:15pm
    Saturday, May 28, 2015, 10:30pm
    Tel Aviv, Israel

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    New York African Film Festival
    Film Society of Lincoln Center
    programmed by Mahen Bonetti
    Tuesday, May 10th, 2016, 7:45pm
    New York, NY

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Pink Apple Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
    ShortFilm Competition
    May 3rd, 2016, 09:55–11:05am
    Zurich, Switzerland

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse
    Drexciya
    Yale School of Art
    Iseman Theater
    co-sponsored by LGBT Studies, and
    Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
    April 28th, 2016
    New Haven, CT

  • 2016

    Kwaku Ananse
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Drexciya
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
    Nuevas voces del cine africano
    organized by Bea Leal
    April 21st, 2016
    Barcelona, Spain

  • 2016

    Kwaku Ananse
    Me Broni Ba
    Artium
    Encuentro con Akosua Adoma Owusu
    organized by Bea Leal
    April 19th, 2016, 7:30pm
    Vitoria, Spain

  • 2016

    Bus Nut
    a tribute to Charles Burnett
    Play-Doc Festival
    Avant-Gutter
    guest curated by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    April 13th-April 17th, 2016
    Tui, Spain

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Museum of Fine Arts Boston
    Wicked Queer: Boston LGBT Film Festival
    Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium
    April 9th, 2016, 4:00pm, 2016
    Boston, MA

  • 2016

    Kwaku Ananse
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Drexciya
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture
    Tabakalera
    organized by Play-Doc Festival
    April 8th, 2016
    San Sebastian, Spain
    filmmaker in attendance

  • 2016

    Kwaku Ananse
    Me Broni Ba
    screening + Master Class lecture
    Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
    Encuentro con Akosua Adoma Owusu
    organized by Bea Leal
    April 7th, 2016
    Leon, Spain

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Athens International Film + Video Festival
    InQueery
    April 6th, 2016, 9 PM
    Athens, OH

  • 2016

    Kwaku Ananse
    Caravane des Cinémas d'Afrique
    Courts-Metrages 2
    Ciné Mourguet
    April 6th, 2015, 5pm
    Lyon, France

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    IFEMA - International Female Film Festival Malmö
    Shorts Program
    April 4th, 2016 - April 10th, 2016
    Malmö, Sweden

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    New Directors/New Films
    Shorts Program One
    Saturday, March 19th, 2016, 1:30 PM - Walter Reade Theater
    Sunday, March 20th, 2016, 1:30 PM - MoMA Titus 2
    New York, NY

  • 2016

    Kwaku Ananse
    Intermittent Delight
    screening with works by Chick Strand & Natalia Almada
    Aurora Picture Show
    Flaherty Film Seminar
    curated by Margarita de la Vega Hurtado
    March 19th, 2016, 10am-5pm
    Houston, Texas

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Ann Arbor Film Festival
    Out Night: Films in Competition
    March 17th, 2016, 9:30pm
    Michigan Theatre
    Ann Arbor, MI

  • 2016

    Me Broni Ba
    Alfreda's Cinema
    Alfreda's Cinema
    March 14th, 2016
    Brooklyn, New York

  • 2016

    Kwaku Ananse
    Afrika Filmfestival - Africalia
    Guido Huysmans Young Artist Award Competition
    M - Museum Leuven
    March 12th, 2016, 12:00pm
    Leuven, Belgium

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Onion City Experimental Film Festival
    Defibrillator
    Sunday, March 6th, 2016 at 2pm
    Chicago, Illinois

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    screening in Watermelon Woman 2.0:
    Outfest Film Festival
    Egyptian Theatre
    March 5th, 2016 at 1pm
    Los Angeles, CA

  • 2016

    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    Northern Virginia Community College
    March 2nd, 2016
    Alexandria, Virginia

  • 2016

    Kwaku Ananse
    Journées Cinématographiques de la
    Femme Africaine de l'Image (JCFA)
    Sunday, March 3 - March 7th, 2016
    Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Bus Nut
    CinemAfrica Film Festival
    Black Lives Matter
    Sunday, February 28th, 2016 at 2:00pm
    Sunday, February 28th, 2016 at 6:30pm
    Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Brisbane Queer Film Festival
    Stories of Our Lives
    Sunday, 28th February, 2016 at 2pm
    Brisbane, Australia

  • 2016

    Reluctantly Queer
    Berlinale Film Festival
    Berlinale Shorts Competition
    curated by Maike Mia Höhne
    Tuesday, February 16th, 2016 10pm
    Thursday, February 18th, 2016 5pm
    Friday, February 19th, 2016 4pm
    Saturday, February 20th, 2016 4pm
    Sunday, February 21st, 2016 4pm
    Berlin, Germany
    filmmaker in attendance

  • 2016

    Kwaku Ananse
    Tuscaloosa African Film Festival
    Bama Theatre
    February 13th, 2016, 6:30pm
    Tuscaloosa, AL

  • 2016

    Me Broni Ba
    Women of Color: Experimental Shorts
    Alt Girl Cinema
    Saturday, January 23rd, 2016 7:30pm
    Austin, TX

  • 2016

    Drexciya
    screening with works by Wangechi Mutu
    Detroit Institute of the Arts
    Afrofuturism Film Series
    Thursday, January 7th, 2016, 7:00 PM
    Detroit, Michigan

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    Museum of Modern Art
    An Evening with Akosua Adoma Owusu
    programmed by Sally Berger
    Monday, December 14, 7:00 pm
    New York, NY
    filmmaker in attendance

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Alternative Film and Video Festival
    Narrative
    Friday, December 11th, 5:00 pm
    Belgrade, Serbia

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse
    Me Broni Ba
    Wright State University
    Raising the Black Voice
    organized by Chinonye Chukwu
    Friday, December 4th, 2015
    Dayton, Ohio

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    African Studies Association Conference
    San Diego Library
    programmed by Ken Harrow
    Thursday, November 19th 2015
    San Diego, California

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Africa Eye Film Festival
    Watershed
    Sunday, November 15th, 2015, 4pm
    Bristol, UK

  • 2015

    Review: Two films produced by Akosua Adoma Owusu,
    makes critics' picks in ArtForum

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    screening with Cold Harbor
    África es Imprescindible
    Edificio de Biblioteca y Filmoteca de Navarra
    programmed by Beatriz Leal Riesco
    November, 13th 2015, 8:00pm
    Pamplona, Spain

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    32nd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
    Kassel Dokfest
    Thursday, November 12th, 2015, 12PM
    Kassel, Germany

  • 2015

    Me Broni Ba
    Rutgers University
    Mason Gross Civic Square Building
    November 9th, 2015, 6:30 p.m.
    New Brunswick, NJ

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    precedes Field Niggas by Khalik Allah
    AFI Fest 2015
    American Film Institute
    Friday, November 6th, 2015, 4:00 PM
    Sunday, November 8th, 2015, 9:30 PM
    Los Angeles, California

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Drexciya
    Intermittent Delight
    Massachusetts College of Art and Design
    MassArt Film Society
    organized by Saul Levine
    November 4th, 2015
    Boston, Massachusetts
    filmmaker in attendance

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Kalpanirhjar International Short Film Festival
    Goethe-Institut Kolkata
    Berlinale Shorts Go Abroad
    programmed by Maike Mia Hoehne
    November 2nd, 2015-November 6th, 2015
    Kolkata, India

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Drexciya
    Me Broni Ba
    University of Virginia
    45th Annual Black Culture Week
    October 27th, 2015
    Charlottesville, VA

  • 2015

    Akosua Adoma Owusu is awarded residency from
    Camargo Foundation
    with travel grant from Art Matters Foundation

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    screening with Pegase by Mohamed Mouftakir
    African Film Festival of Ottawa
    Carleton University
    Friday, October 23, 2015, 7:00 pm
    Ottawa, Canada

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    África es Imprescindible
    Cine y Coloquio
    programmed by Beatriz Leal Riesco
    October 15th, 2015, 8:15pm
    Tudela, Spain

  • 2015

    Akosua Adoma Owusu Named one of Indiewire's
    Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Redefined Cinema

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    África es Imprescindible
    Fundación Caja Rioja
    programmed by Beatriz Leal Riesco
    October 6th, 2015, 7:30pm
    Logroño, Spain

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Kwaku Ananse
    Drexciya
    Me Broni Ba
    Rochester Art Center
    Existential Crisis
    Rochester, MN
    October 2, 2015 - January 3, 2016

  • 2015

    Me Broni Ba
    Musée Dapper
    Chefs-d'oeuvre d'Afrique
    September 30th - July 17th 2016
    Paris, France

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Drexciya
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    California Institute of the Arts
    Structuring Strategies: Bijou Auditorium
    programmed by Steve Anker
    Valencia, CA
    September 30th, 2015, 7:00PM

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Me Broni Ba
    Intermittent Delight
    screening with works by Len Lye,
    Kevin Jerome Everson, Ken Jacobs & Ayoka Chenzira
    Los Angeles Filmforum
    guest programmed by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Akosua Adoma Owusu: Triple Consciousness
    Los Angeles, CA
    September 27th, 2015, 7:30PM
    filmmaker in attendance

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Intermittent Delight
    Art+Practice
    Two films by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    showing with Njideka Akunyili Crosby: The Beautyful Ones
    organized by Jamillah James
    Los Angeles, CA
    September 24th, 2015, 7:30PM

  • 2015

    Akosua Adoma Owusu to teach filmmaking workshop
    at California Institute of the Arts
    Valencia, CA
    September 23rd, 2015 - September 30th, 2015

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    New York African Film Festival
    8th Annual Family Day Celebration
    Governor's Island
    programmed by Mahen Bonetti
    New York, NY
    September 20th, 2015

  • 2015

    Me Broni Ba
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Fowler Museum at UCLA
    Artist Talk with Betzy Bromberg
    University of California, Los Angeles
    The Art of Hair in Africa
    Los Angeles, CA
    September 17th, 2015, 7:30 PM

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Busseywood African Film Festival
    Bussey Building Peckham
    September 12th, 2015
    London, UK

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    University of Richmond
    African Film Weekend
    Professor of French and Francophone Studies
    Richmond, Virginia
    September 12th, 2015

  • 2015

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Joburg Art Fair
    in association with
    Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
    curated by Hilke Doering
    September 11th - September 13th, 2015
    Johannesburg, South Africa

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse will broadcast for TV5 Monde Afrique,
    TV5 FBS (France, Belgium, Switzerland)
    and RTBF (Belgian television)
    September 10th, 2015

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Bangalore International Short Film Festival
    Berlinale Shorts: Stranger than Paradise
    programmed by Maike Mia Hoehne
    August 29th, 2015 7:30pm – 9:00pm
    Bangalore, India

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Boonies Film Festival
    The Boonies Goes Boonies
    Northern Pennsylvania
    August 19th, 2015 - August 22th, 2015

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    University de Valladolid
    Masters in Cinema History
    curated by Bea Leal
    August 17th, 2015
    Valladolid, Spain

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Africa Film Trinidad & Tobago
    Shorts Programme at the Little Carib Theatre
    Trinidad & Tobago
    August 2nd, 2015, 5:30PM
    Trinidad & Tobago

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    BlackStar Film Festival
    Shorts: Pushing the Limit
    International House of Philadelphia
    Philadelphia, PA
    July 31st, 2015, 5:25 PM

  • 2015

    Akosua Adoma Owusu is participating on the
    Media City Experimental Film Festival
    International Competition Jury
    Winsdor, Ontario
    July 28th, 2015 - Aug 1st, 2015

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Media City Experimental Film Festival
    International Program 1
    Juror Presentation
    Windsor, Ontario
    July 28th, 2015 - August 1st, 2015

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Guanajuato International Film Festival
    Official Selection
    Guanajuato, Mexico
    July 19th, 2015, 8PM
    July 25th, 2015, 12PM

  • 2015

    Unbalanced
    Durban FilmMart
    directed by P. Sam Kessie
    produced by Obibini Pictures
    Durban International Film Festival
    Durban, South Africa
    July 17th, 2015 - July 20th, 2015

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    L'Association des Amis du Festival L'Europe autour de l'Europe
    Une Semaine EurAfricaine Au Cinéma
    Paris, France
    June 30th, 2015, 7:30PM

  • 2015

    Drexciya
    Institute of Contemporary Art
    She Found a Place
    Philadelphia, PA
    June 10th, 2015 at 6:30PM

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Festival de cinéma Image et Vie
    Une Ere Nouvelle
    Dakar, Senegal
    June 9th - June 13st 2015

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse receives
    Special Mention of the Young Jury Prize at
    2015 Cinémas d’Afrique Angers

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Cinémas d'Afrique Angers
    Grand Theatre
    Angers, France
    May 25th - May 31st 2015

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    New York African Film Festival
    Film Society of Lincoln Center
    New York, NY
    Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 6:00pm

  • 2015

    Me Broni Ba
    Fowler Museum at UCLA
    University of California, Los Angeles
    The Art of Hair in Africa
    Los Angeles, CA
    May 3th, 2015 - September 20th, 2015

  • 2015

    Intermittent Delight
    Whitney Museum of American Art
    America Is Hard to See
    New York, NY
    May 1st, 2015–Sept 27th, 2015

  • 2015

    Akosua Adoma Owusu is a recipient of the
    2015 Guggenheim Fellowship

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
    In competition
    Oberhausen, Germany
    Friday, May 1st, 2015 at 8 p.m

  • 2015

    Revealing Roots
    LA Freewaves
    LA Weekly Artopia
    Los Angeles, CA
    April, 30th, 2015 8:00pm-11pm

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    San Francisco International Film Festival
    Golden Gate Awards competition
    San Francisco, California
    April 26th, 2015, 6:45 p.m.
    May 4th, 2015 9:15 p.m.

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Institute of Contemporary Art
    University of Pennsylvania
    Do/Tell screening
    with works by Erin Bernard, Heather Hart, &
    Rachelle Mozman
    Philadelphia, PA
    April 22th, 2015 – August 16th, 2015

  • 2015

    Black Sunshine
    Tribeca All Access
    Akosua Adoma Owusu's feature film receives
    development grant from the Tribeca Film Institute
    April 20th, 2015 - April 25th, 2015

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse,
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful,
    Drexciya,
    Me Broni Ba,
    Intermittent Delight
    Spring Arts Festival:
    Short Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Amherst College
    April 13th 2015, Amherst, MA

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Trenton International Film Festival
    screening w/ I For Iran by Sanaz Azari
    curated by Jed Rapfogel
    Trenton, NJ
    April 9th – April 11th 2015

  • 2015

    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse,
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful,
    Drexciya,
    Me Broni Ba,
    Intermittent Delight
    Athens International Film Festival at
    Ohio University
    Tuesday, April 7th, at 7:15 pm, Athens, OH

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    25th Annual Cascade Festival of African Films
    Portland Community College
    Thursday, March 5th 2015, 1:00pm
    Friday, March 6th 2015, 8:00pm
    Portland, Oregon

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Panafrican Film Festival of Ouagadougou
    FESPACO (in competition)
    February 28th - March 7th, 2015
    Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

  • 2015

    Kwaku Ananse
    Festivals Africa Alive at
    Filmforum Höchst
    February 5th, 2015
    Frankfurt, Germany

  • 2015

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Black Radical Imagination
    Syracuse University
    Syracuse, NY
    February 10th, 2015, 2-4pm

  • 2015

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Black Radical Imagination at
    LA Art Book Fair
    January 29th, 2015, 7:00pm-8:30pm
    Los Angeles, CA

  • 2015

    Akosua Adoma Owusu to participate in
    “Until the Quiet Comes: Cinema Under Radar”
    University of Virginia MLK Celebration
    January 19th-20th, 2015

  • 2015

    Akosua Adoma Owusu is mentioned in
    January Issue of ArtForum Magazine on
    Prospect 3 New Orleans

  • 2014

    Kwaku Ananse
    Storytelling in Africa at
    University of Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    December 2014

  • 2014

    Kwaku Ananse
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful,
    Intermittent Delight
    Black Cinema House Chicago
    Black Cinema House
    November 14th, 2014
    Chicago, Illinois

  • 2014

    Bus Nut
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful,
    Drexciya,
    Me Broni Ba,
    Intermittent Delight
    Black Film Center Archive at
    Indiana University
    November 10th, 2014
    Bloomington, Indiana

  • 2014

    Kwaku Ananse
    AfriKamera
    Re_Imagining Africa
    November 10th - November 15th, 2014
    Berlin, Germany

  • 2014

    Akosua Adoma Owusu to have residency
    at the Black Film Center Archive
    at Indiana University
    November 9, 2014 - November 15, 2014
    Bloomington, Indiana

  • 2014

    Kwaku Ananse
    Prospect New Orleans
    Prospect 3 Notes for Now
    October 25th 2014 - January 25th 2015
    New Orleans, LA

  • 2014

    Bus Nut
    Kwaku Ananse,
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful,
    Drexciya,
    Me Broni Ba,
    Intermittent Delight,
    University of Virginia
    October 6, 2014
    Charlottesville, Virginia

  • 2014

    Intermittent Delight
    Flahertiana Film Festival
    in association with Flaherty Film Seminar
    Flahertiana Russia
    September 21st - September 28th, 2014
    Russia

  • 2014

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Black Radical Imagination at
    Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival
    September 20th, 2014
    Trinidad & Tobago

  • 2014

    Black Sunshine
    IFP Independent Film Week
    No Borders International Co-Production Market
    September 14th, 2014 - September 18th, 2014
    New York, NY

  • 2014

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Selections From the Bearden Project
    curated by Mary Mikel Stump
    The University Galleries at Texas State University
    August 25th, 2014 - September 19th, 2014

  • 2014

    Kwaku Ananse
    Festival del film Locarno
    Locarno Film Festival Open Doors
    August 9th, 2014 - August 12th, 2014
    Locarno, Switzerland

  • 2014

    Black Sunshine
    receives production funding from
    Berlinale World Cinema Fund
    World Cinema Fund
    July 9th, 2014, Germany

  • 2014

    Intermittent Delight
    Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA London)
    Avant-Noir Artists’ Film Biennial 2014
    July 3rd, 2014 – July 6th, 2014
    London, UK

  • 2014

    Kwaku Ananse
    Mostra de Cinema e Cultura Africana
    África Mostra-se
    May 30th, 2014, 8pm
    Lisbon, Portugal

  • 2014

    Intermittent Delight
    Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
    Experimental Film/Video at the Berks
    May 22nd, 2014 - May 25th, 2014
    Hempstead, NY

  • 2014

    Kwaku Ananse,
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful,
    Drexciya,
    Me Broni Ba, &
    Intermittent Delight
    Anthology Film Archives
    SHOW & TELL Retrospective
    programmed by Jed Rapfogel
    May 8th, 2014, 7pm

  • 2014

    Kwaku Ananse,
    New York African Film Festival
    Lincoln Center
    May 8th, 2014 2:00pm
    May 11th 2014, 3:30pm, New York, NY

  • 2014

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful,
    Me Broni Ba
    University of Pennsylvania
    April 28th, 2014, Pennsylvania

  • 2014

    Kwaku Ananse,
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful,
    Drexciya,
    Me Broni Ba, &
    Intermittent Delight
    Anacostia Arts Center Retrospective
    Electric Tuesday with Parallel Film Collective
    April 22, 2014, 7pm-9:30 pm

  • 2014

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful,
    Black Radical Imagination at
    Kansas City Film Festival
    April 12, 2014, 8:00pm

  • 2014

    Kwaku Ananse,
    Me Broni Ba
    Ashesi University College
    April 10th, 2014, Ghana

  • 2014

    Black Sunshine
    receives grant support from
    SØRFOND Norwegian South Film Fund
    SØRFOND grant
    March 13th, 2014 Oslo, Norway

  • 2014

    Kwaku Ananse
    UC Berkeley Pacific Film Archives
    Between Cultures: Recent African Shorts
    February 12, 2014, 7pm

  • 2014

    Black Sunshine
    is selected to participate in
    Berlinale Talents Script Station
    Berlinale Talents Campus
    February 7th, 2014 - February 13th, 2014, Germany

  • 2014

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Black Radical Imagination at
    AstroBlackness Conference
    February 13, 2014, 6-7:30pm

  • 2014

    Kwaku Ananse
    Pan African Film & Arts Festival
    Rave Cinemas
    February 7, 2014, 9:55pm
    February 11, 2014, 1:00pm

  • 2014

    Black Sunshine
    Berlin International Film Festival
    Berlinale Script Station
    February 8-13, 2014, Germany

  • 2014

    Intermittent Delight,
    Me Broni Ba (My White Baby),
    Drexciya,
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Whitney Museum of American Art
    acquired by permanent collection

  • 2014

    Anancy
    Ghost Nature
    Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago and
    La Box in Bourges, France
    January 17 – February 8, 2014

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Dubai International Film Festival
    Muhr AsiaAfrica Competition, Dubai
    December 11, 2013, 6:15pm
    December 12, 2013, 1:15pm

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    screening with Perished Diamonds by
    Anita Afonu
    Rex Cinema Accra
    Save the Rex! Launch Party
    December 7, 2013, 8pm

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Izmir Short Film Festival
    Alsancak - Izmir, Turkey
    November 21, 2013, 9:00pm

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Museum of Fine Arts Boston
    Afrofuturism
    Alfond Auditorium, G36
    Sunday, November 10, 2013
    Boston, MA

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Africa International Film Festival
    Shorts Film Competition
    November 10th, 2014 - November 17th, 2014

  • 2013

    Anancy
    Dialogue at Tambaran Gallery
    Opening - November 6, 2013, 6-9pm, New York
    November 7, 2013-January 25, 2014

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Film Africa 2013
    Royal African Society, UK
    November 3, 2013, 6:30pm

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    New Wave in African Cinema Film Series
    The Cinematheque Vancouver
    November 2, 2013, 4:30pm
    Liu Institute for Global Issues
    November 4, 2013, 6:00pm

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Africa in Motion (AIM) Film Festival
    In competition, Edinburgh & Glasgow
    October 28th, 2013, 8:25pm

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Festival du Nouveau Cinema
    In Competition
    October 14th, 2013, 9pm
    October 16th, 2013, 12:46pm
    Montreal, Canada

  • 2013

    Black Sunshine
    SØRFOND Pitching Forum
    Owusu's feature selected in FilmFrasor
    October 14th - 17th, 2013
    Oslo, Norway

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    BFI London Film Festival
    ICA London
    October 9th, 2013, 8:45 PM
    October 12th, 2013, 3:30 PM
    London, UK

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    LA Weekly Arts
    Owusu's work is called "so charming" in
    Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A.

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Calarts REDCAT
    Black Radical Imagination
    October 7th, 2013, 8:30pm
    Los Angeles, CA

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Parallel Film Collective
    Hair in the Gate
    September 19th, 2013, 6:30pm
    Washington, DC

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Africine Magazine
    Interview for Africine at TIFF

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Toronto International Film Festival
    North American Premiere / Canada
    September 5th, 2013 6 PM, Jackman Hall
    September 7th, 2913 9 AM, Jackman Hall
    Toronto, Canada

  • 2013

    Owusu’s works on Triple Consciousness featured in
    International Review of African American Art
    Vol 24. No 3A

  • 2013

    Drexciya
    The Future Weird
    in association with OkayAfrica Player
    Spectacle Theater
    August 26th, 2013, 8pm & 10pm,
    Brooklyn, NY

  • 2013

    Drexciya
    Me Broni Ba
    Bold Tendencies - Africa Is A Film
    sponsored by Africa is a Country
    Peckham Multistorey Car Park
    August 22nd, 2013, 8:30PM
    London, UK

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Artists Television Access
    Black Radical Imagination Showcase
    August 31st, 2013, 8PM
    San Francisco, CA

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Black August Film Festival
    The Brecht Forum
    August 13th, 2013, 7PM
    Brooklyn, NY

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Art League Houston
    Black Radical Imagination Showcase
    August 9th, 2013, 7PM
    August 10th, 2013, 12-5PM
    Houston, TX

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    BlackStar Film Festival
    International House of Philadelphia
    August 1st, 2013, 12:30 pm
    Philadelphia, PA

  • 2013

    Black Sunshine
    MacDowell Artists Colony Fellowship
    screenwriting residency
    July 29th, 2013-September 4th, 2013
    Peterborough, NH

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Expresion en Corto Festival
    in competition
    July 20th, 6:00 PM
    July 26th, 2:00 PM
    Guanajuato, Mexico

  • 2013

    Black Sunshine wins
    Durban FilmMart
    Prix ARTE International
    July 19th, 2013-July 22nd, 2013
    Durban, South Africa

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Durban International Film Festival
    in competition
    July 26th, 2013, 3:30pm
    July 27th, 2013, 6:00pm
    Durban, South Africa

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Jagran Film Festival
    July 8th, 2013, 3:30pm, New Delhi, India
    September 26th, 2013 at 4pm Mumbai, India

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Alliance Francaise d’Accra
    with live music by Koo Nimo, Kyekyeku,
    & This House Is Not For Sale
    July, 4th 2013, 7pm
    Accra, Ghana

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    El Espejo Film Festival
    Berlinale Go Exterior Program
    June 27th, 2013, 7pm
    Bogotá, Colombia

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma - César
    UNESCO’s Golden Nights Panorama
    Worlds Best Short Films of the Year
    June 17th, 2013, 7pm & 9pm
    Paris, France

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Art Basel Better Days
    Black Radical Imagination Showcase
    June 14th, 2013
    Miami, FL

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Cannes Short Film Corner
    Cannes Court Metrage
    May 15th, 2013-May 26th, 2013
    Cannes, France

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Black Cinema House
    Black Radical Imagination Showcase
    May 19th, 2013, 6pm
    Chicago, Illinois

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts
    Black Radical Imagination
    April 26th, 2013, 8pm
    Brooklyn, NY

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse wins
    Africa Movie Academy Award
    Best Short Film
    April 20th, 2013
    Bayelsa State, Nigeria

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful receives
    Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker
    Ann Arbor Film Festival
    March 25th, 2013

  • 2013

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    51st Ann Arbor Film Festival
    in competition
    March 23th, 2013, 9:30pm
    Ann Arbor, MI

  • 2013

    Intermittent Delight
    Parallel Film Collective
    Hair in the Gate
    March 21st, 2013 6:30PM
    Washington, DC

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse,
    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful,
    Drexciya, and
    Me Broni Ba (My White Baby)
    CinemAfrica Film Festival
    Retrospective
    March 13th, 2013-March 17th, 2013
    Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2013

    Me Broni Ba
    Papillion Institute of Art
    Black Radical Imagination
    February 16th, 2013, 7PM
    Los Angeles, CA

  • 2013

    Drexciya
    Director's Lounge
    Experiments in Cinema
    Berlin, Germany

  • 2013

    Kwaku Ananse
    Berlin International Film Festival
    Golden Bear competition
    curated by Maike Mia Höhne
    9.2., 22:00, Cinemaxx 3
    12.2., 16:00, Cinemaxx 5
    14.2., 22:00, Cinemaxx 3
    16.2., 17:45, Colosxeum 1
    February 11th-February 17th, 2013
    Berlin, Germany

  • 2013

    Intermittent Delight
    Video Slink Uganda
    Video Slink
    February 6th-March 6rd, 2013
    Kampala, Uganda

  • 2012

    Kwaku Ananse
    Art Matters Grant
    Travel grant to Ghana from
    Art Matters Foundation

  • 2012

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful,
    Drexciya,
    Me Broni Ba (My White Baby),
    Intermittent Delight
    screening with work by Rebecca Baron
    and Ayoka Chenzira
    Union Docs
    Short films & influences with Akosua Adoma Owusu
    December 16th, 7:30pm
    Brooklyn, NY

  • 2012

    Anancy installation
    Studio Museum in Harlem
    Fore
    Nov 11th, 2012 - Mar 10th, 2013
    Harlem, New York

  • 2012

    Drexciya
    Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
    Haus der Kulturen der Welt
    July 3rd, 2012, 9PM
    Berlin, Germany

  • 2012

    Black Sunshine
    Locarno Film Festival
    Open Doors co-production mart
    August 1st- August 8th, 2012
    Locarno, Switzerland

  • 2012

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
    International Competition
    April 26th – May 1st, 2012
    Oberhausen, Germany

  • 2012

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Images Film Festival
    25th Anniversary in Toronto
    April 12th-21st, 2012
    Toronto, Canada

  • 2012

    Sarah Jacobson Film Grant
    Owusu awarded support from
    Free History Project
    for short film, Kwaku Ananse

  • 2012

    Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    Studio Museum in Harlem
    The Bearden Project
    Mar 29, 2012 - May 27, 2012
    Harlem, New York

  • 2012

    Drexciya
    Toronto International Film Festival
    African Phantasms: New African Short Films
    February 16th- February 29th, 2012
    Toronto, Canada

  • 2012

    Focus Features Africa First
    Owusu receives Africa First commission,
    which supports emerging African filmmakers
    making short films