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  • RogerEbert.com

    "Akosua Adoma Owusu’s marvelous short “King of Sanwi” offers fierce competition) is a movie defined by the limits of cinematic experience and indeed the whole of sensory perception."

  • Franceinfo Afrique

    Du cinéma et de la solidarité: We Are One : A Global Film Festival

  • Liter Net

    White Afro (2019) in Vienna Shorts, 2020

  • Film Comment Magazine

    News to Me: Film at Lincoln Center celebrated the burgeoning career of Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Awards

    Akosua Adoma Owusu receives the 2020 Emerging Artist Award for Film at Lincoln Center

  • E-Flux

    CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts New Online Library

  • Africultures

    Clermont-Ferrand 2020 : White Afro

  • Film Comment Magazine

    The Film Comment Podcast: Filmmakers on Varda

  • Filmlinc Daily

    6th Annual Film at Lincoln Center Luncheon

  • Film at Lincoln Center

    A New Generation of Filmmakers on Agnès Varda's Influence

  • Burnaway Art Review

    Good Hair: Akosua Adoma Owusu at the CAC, New Orleans

  • Film Comment Magazine

    The Decade in Experimental Film

  • The Medium

    Exploring consciousness in Between Three Worlds

  • Film Explorer

    Selection of the films in the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur Competition - White Afro

  • Vibe Magazine

    ‘Black Panther’ Stars Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira To Adapt ‘Americanah’ Into Miniseries

  • Official Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie site

    Short story from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Thing Around Your Neck” to be adapted into film version

  • The Africa Bazaar

    Two African Filmmakers Unveil Films at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight Festival

  • Variety

    Akosua Adoma Owusu’s “Welcome to the Jungle” trilogy

  • Forbes

    MoMA’s ‘Doc Fortnight 2020’ Films Will Travel From Florida Retirement Community To Mongolia

  • Sight & Sound Magazine

    The best films of 2019: Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us (2019)

  • 2019 BFI London Film Festival news, features and opinion

    Moving images across borders and boundaries: Experimental film at the LFF

  • ArtForum

    Akosua Adoma Owusu talks about triple consciousness

  • Alumni Aktuell Salvador

    Goethe-Institut Alumni Projects: Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us (2019)

  • Festival du Nouveau cinéma Montreal

    Sept films à voir au Festival du Nouveau cinéma

  • Another Gaze Feminist Journal

    In Conversation With Akosua Adoma Owusu by Gazelle Mba

  • FEM Magazine

    The Triple Consciousness of ‘On Monday Last Week’ (2018)

  • 2018 BFI London Film Festival news, features and opinion

    Pain, pansexuality and afrofuturism: three films about the body

  • Essence

    Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu Has Adapted A Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Story Into a Short Film - Watch the Trailer

  • Senses of Cinema

    Mahogany Too featured in World Poll 2018

  • CalArts

    Jack H. Skirball Screening Series at REDCAT receives Grant from The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

  • LA Weekly

    GoLA Pick: Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • Opinion Internationale

    Ghana : La jeune réalisatrice américano-ghanéenne Akosua Adoma Owusu fait revivre le Rex Cinéma

  • Directed by Women

    Crucial 21st Century Cinema - #Crucial21DbW: Mahogany Too directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • Contemporary & Magazine

    Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle - Beauty and Power in Black Hair Culture

  • KQED

    At the Wattis, the Aftermath of an Invasion and a Kaleidoscope of Black Experience

  • Videoex International Competition

    Special Mention Jury Statement of the VideoEx International Competition on Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us (2019)

  • Letterboxd

    Film critic Michael Sicinski on Pelourinho, They Don't Really Care About Us (2019)

  • Art House Convergence

    Around the Art House: Experimental Film

  • LA Weekly

    14 Best Things to Do in L.A. This Week

  • Screenslate

    Intermittent Delight featured in Not Sorry: Consumer at Anthology Film Archives

  • Nylon Magazine

    Here Are All The Best Museum And Gallery Openings This Spring

  • Creative Capital Blog

    Remembering Barbara Hammer: Artists Discuss Her Legacy, Generosity, and Work

  • Zylofon Media Online

    Check Out The Top 10 Hardworking Ghanaian Female Directors/Producers In The Film Industry

  • Indiewire

    Owusu named one of six Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Redefined Cinema

  • Film Comment

    Rotterdam 2019 Dispatch: Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us

  • Modern Times Review Magazine

    IFFR Review: Owusu's Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us

  • Sight & Sound Magazine

    The best films of 2016: Reluctantly Queer (2016)

  • POV Magazine

    Owusu's Reluctantly Queer reviewed for New Directors/NewFilms Festival

  • Shadow and Act

    Kwaku Ananse makes list of 11 Movies That Prove Black Mythology Has Always Existed

  • Demand Africa

    6 African Women Filmmakers On The Rise

  • Red Bull Music Academy

    Infinite Journey to Inner Space: The Legacy of Drexciya

  • Film Threat

    Drexciya by David Finkelstein

  • Crain's Detroit Business

    Intermittent Delight commissioned for Cobo Center video series across Marquee in December

  • ELLE South Africa

    On Monday of Last Week: Interview with Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • The Nickelodeon Theatre

    Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu on Triple Consciousness

  • Atlas Magazine Interview

    Akosua Adoma Owusu Feature

  • Shadow And Act

    Black Sunshine: 10 upcoming African films to get excited about!

  • Osei Duro

    Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu - Filmmaker and Producer

  • OkayAfrica Player

    First Look: The Trailer Based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘On Monday of Last Week’ Is Here

  • Shadow And Act

    Trailer: 'On Monday of Last Week' - New Film based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Short Story

  • The Guardian

    Accra at 60: concrete heads and colonial questions in Ghana's capital

  • Dazed

    Ten experimental filmmakers tackling the world’s big topics

  • Never Apart Magazine

    Akosua Adoma Owusu: Reluctantly Queer Interview

  • The McGuill Daily

    Never Apart's vernissage celebrates Black and Indigenous histories

  • Arts and Culture Texas

    Full Surround Cinema: Adventures at the 2016 HCAF

  • Little White Lies

    Every film by a black director at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival

  • Shadow and Act

    Cast Announced for Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘On Monday of Last Week’

  • True Africa

    Interview: Meet the Ghanaian filmmaker who’s adapting Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • The Royal African Film Society

    Human of the Week: Akosua Adoma Owusu: The Ghanaian filmmaker adapting Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - What’s Trending #014

  • The StyleHQ

    Interview: On The Verge: Producer - Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • Elle Magazine South Africa

    Akosua Adoma Owusu to adapt Chimamanda Adichie's short story

  • Essence.com

    Another Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Story Is Being Adapted Into a Film

  • Hollywood's Black Renaissance

    Karyn Parsons & More Join Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Film Adaptation of ‘On Monday of Last Week’

  • Women and Hollywood

    Akosua Adoma Owusu Will Adapt Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “On Monday of Last Week”

  • OkayAfrica International Edition

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Greenlights Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu to Adapt Short Story

  • HOOS FOR ART: Akosua Adoma Owusu (College‘05)

    University of Virginia Alumni spotlight, Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu (CAS'05)

  • Revista 5w

    Las africanas se están convirtiendo en líderes de la industria cinematográfica

  • Brooklyn Magazine

    Review: Reluctantly Queer in "The New York African Film Festival’s “Africa in New York” Shorts"

  • NonFics

    The Best of New Directors/New Films 2016 Might Be These 3 Documentary Shorts

  • Bold As Love Magazine

    New Directors/New Films 2016 – Genre Bending Docs and Experimental Film, March 16-27 in NYC

  • FIPRESCI

    Reluctantly Queer featured in A Quest For The Arc Of Safety

  • Indiewire

    Akosua Adoma Owusu's New Short Film 'Reluctantly Queer' in Competition at Berlinale Next Month

  • Dynamic Africa

    12 Films to Watch or Watch Out For: "Reluctantly Queer"

  • Art Matters

    Art Matters and Jerome Foundation artist residency program at Camargo Foundation

  • MedCity Beat

    Rochester Art Center x University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR) on Existential Crisis

  • ArtForum

    ArtForum Critics' pick Akosua Adoma Owusu in Art+Practice

  • Contemporary Art Review

    Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Akosua Adoma Owusu at Art+Practice

  • Elle Magazine (South Africa)

    Meet Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • Shadow & Act

    Akosua Adoma Owusu Named Recipient of Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship + New Film Project 'Bus Nut'

  • Barcelona Metropolitan

    New Voices of African Cinema: The work of Ghanaian-American filmmaker, Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • Berria

    ATZEKOZ AURRERA. Akosua Adoma Owusu. Zinemagilea
    «Identitateari buruz aritzea ukaezina zait»

  • ArtForum

    2015 Guggenheim Fellows Announced

  • International Review of African American Art

    Triple Consciousness: Diasporic Art in the American context - Akosua Adoma Owusu: Exploring Threeness

  • Indiana University Press

    Black Camera Commentary: Haunting in Akosua Adoma Owusu's Short Experimental Films by Nzingha Kendall, Black Camera Vol. 5, No. 1 (Fall 2013), pp. 232-236

  • The Huffington Post

    Akosua Adoma Owusu is named one of 30 Black Contemporary Artists under 40

  • Fowler Museum

    Fowler In Focus: The Art of Hair in Africa

  • The MacDowell Colony

    A Friends of MacDowell trip to the new Whitney Museum with featured Fellow Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • Culture Type

    At Whitney Museum, ‘America is Hard to See’ Acknowledges African American Contributions to Recent Art History

  • For Harriet

    Owusu makes one of 10 Contemporary Black Women Visual Artists You Should Know

  • Frieze

    Prospect.3

  • BlackStar Film Festival Program Guide

    Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • Shadow & Act

    Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu's 'Kwaku Ananse' at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia)

  • This is Africa

    #WCW – Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • ScreenAfrica

    DFM success stories

  • Variety

    Cannes: 6th Durban FilmMart Edition Unveils Projects

  • Screendaily

    Durban Filmart selects 19 projects

  • This is Africa

    Akosua Adoma Owusu: From ‘Kwaku Ananse’ to ‘Bus Nut’

  • OkayAfrica Player

    Ghanaian-American Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu Focuses On Rosa Parks & The Civil Rights Movement In ‘Bus Nut

  • Africa is a Country

    10 Films you have to see at this year’s New York African Film Festival

  • EurWeb

    The Film Strip: NY African Film Festival is Feast for Eyes and Soul

  • Shadow & Act

    Black Sunshine from Akosua Adoma Owusu is Tribeca All Access Pick

  • Shadow & Act

    2014 IFP Project Forum Slate Includes New Work From Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • Ioncinema

    2014 IFP Independent Film Week

  • Shadow & Act

    An Evening with Experimental Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu in Chicago Nov. 14

  • ArtForum

    Prospect.3 by Nick Stillman

  • Variety

    Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul Backed by Berlin’s World Cinema Fund

  • Shadow & Act

    Akosua Adoma Owusu's 'Black Sunshine' is a Berlinale World Cinema Fund Selection

  • Screendaily

    WCF announces latest funding round

  • GhanaWeb

    Kwaw Ansah heads FESPACO jury as Akosua Adoma’s ‘Kweku Ananse’, NAFTI nominated

  • GhanaWeb

    FESPACO 2015 to go ahead

  • Variety

    Interview: Durban FilmMart Winner Touts ‘Sunshine,’ Ghanaian Cinema

  • Shadow & Act

    Akosua Adoma Owusu, Rungano Nyoni, Others Collect Durban FilmMart Cash Awards

  • Shadow & Act

    Durban FilmMart 2013 Project Selections (Nikyatu Jusu, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Rungano Nyoni)

  • AFP - Agence France Press

    Video Interview: Filmmaker hoping to rejuvenate Ghana's dilapidated old cinemas

  • TV3 Ghana

    Interview: Owusu speaks to television presenter, Ama K Abebrese on the New Day show at TV3 Studios on Save the Rex Cinema Initiative in Accra

  • Africa is A Country

    Interview: Reimagining Ghana's Cinemaspace

  • OkayAfrica Player

    Kwaku Ananse makes OkayAfrica's Top African Films of 2013

  • Africa is A Country

    Kwaku Ananse makes Africa is A Country's Top 10 Films of 2013

  • BuniTV

    Owusu makes BuniTv's Filmmakers of 2013

  • Le Quotidien Maghrébin

    Accra : Le cinéma Rex, en danger de disparition, mobilise pour sa sauvegarde une réalisatrice réalisatrice américano-ghanéenne

  • Mimi Magazine

    Preserving Ghana’s Cultural Heritage One Theatre At A Time

  • Il Pane le Rose

    Ghana. Riapre il Rex, Cinema Storico Di Accra

  • Studio Africa

    Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu has launched a Kickstarter campaign to Save the Rex

  • Ebru News coverage

    Ghanian Artist on a Mission to Revive Film Houses

  • Another Africa

    The Treasures of Accra’s Growing Art Scene

  • Daily Nation (Kenya)

    Filmmaker battles to save historic Ghana cinema

  • Le Nouvel Observateur

    Ghana: une réalisatrice se bat pour sauver le cinéma Rex

  • OkayAfrica Player

    Cinemafrique: Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman’s ‘Dreamstates,’ Accra’s Rex Theatre, ‘Finding Fela’ Trailer + More

  • Heave Media

    Owusu's Anancy installation in 'Ghost Nature' at Gallery 400

  • Design233

    Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu on Life and Saving the Rex Cinema in Accra, Ghana

  • OkayAfrica Player

    Interview: Owusu’s Campaign To Transform Accra’s Rex Cinema

  • Black Film Center/Archive

    Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu Reinvigorates Ghanaian Cinema Culture

  • Variety

    Durban FilmMart Winner Touts ‘Sunshine,’ Ghanaian Cinema. Owusu speaks about strength of Africa's storytelling culture

  • Accra[dot]Alt

    Interview: HIGHLIGHTS OF 2013: The Girl Who Brought You Kwaku Ananse

  • Morelia Film Festival

    Kwaku Ananse at the London Film Festival 2013

  • Stream Africa

    Interview: Artist/Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu from Ghana

  • Africine

    Interview with Akosua Adoma Owusu, director of Kwaku Ananse (Ghana) North American Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)

  • Indiewire

    Akosua Adoma Owusu, Rungano Nyoni, Others Collect Durban FilmMart Cash Awards

  • Variety

    Interview: Durban FilmMart Arte France International Prize Winner Touts ‘Sunshine,’ Ghanaian Cinema

  • Berlinale Short Talks

    Interview: Owusu talks about short film, Kwaku Ananse at the Berlinale

  • Studio Museum in Harlem

    Spotlight: Fore artist, Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • CineKenya

    CineKenya mentions Owusu's film, Kwaku Ananse

  • GUBA Awards

    Akosua Adoma Owusu…tells.. A Modern Day Kwaku Ananse Story

  • Sound on Sight

    The Toronto International Film Festival Rolls Out Its Red-Hot Carpet
    For An International Roster Of Filmmakers And Actors

  • Twitch Film

    African Folk Tales Come To Life In KWAKU ANANSE

  • Is It Post-Black Yet?

    On Studio Museum's exhibition, Fore

  • LA Weekly

    Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Black-Light Painting Tour

  • Underground Film Journal

    2013 Ann Arbor Film Festival: Award Winners

  • Indiewire

    Akosua Adoma's "Black Sunshine" (On Promiscuous Ghanaian Hairdresser) Gets Financing Boost

  • Shadow and Act

    Interview: Africa First 2012 Profile: Chatting w/ Ghanaian-American Experimental Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • Africa is a Country

    Review: Owusu's "Drexciya" in Film and Johannesburg’s Ponte City

  • Africa is a Country

    Owusu's film "Drexciya" makes Top Ten Films of 2011

  • Shadow & Act

    Black Futurist Short Films Screening In L.A. Next Week

  • Flipping the Script

    African Film workshop with Owusu at Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

  • MUBI

    Robert Flaherty Seminar 2010, Part 2: Work Forces

  • MUBI

    Robert Flaherty Seminar 2010, Part 1: Unseen Labor

  • ArtForum

    Work in Progress by Dennis Lim, July 6, 2010

  • Shadow and Act

    “My White Baby” – Literally & Metaphorically, July 21st, 2010

  • ArtForum

    Review: Owusu's Me Broni Ba (My White Baby) makes Top Ten, Issue October 2010

  • Offscreen Magazine

    Review: Me Broni Ba (My White Baby) in Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal

  • Washington City Paper

    Review: Owusu's film, Me Broni Ba (My White Baby), June 12th, 2009

  • Senses of Cinema

    Review: Me Broni Ba (My White Baby) at Rotterdam Film Festival, April 4th, 2010

  • Cleveland.com

    Review: Owusu's Intermittent Delight, September 16, 2008

  • Cleveland Scene

    Review: Owusu's 'Intermittent Delight', September 3rd, 2008

  • Cleveland Magazine

    Review: Owusu's film, 'Intermittent Delight' in Bi-Lingual exhibition, September 2008

  • District Weekly

    Review: Owusu's installation, Buoyant, September 8th, 2008

  • GLAMFA

    Review: Akosua Adoma Owusu's Buoyant, 2008 - GLAMFA catalog, August 8th, 2008

  • Shadow & Act

    Tonight: 'The Future Weird: Black Atlantis' (Films By Akosua Adoma Owusu, Nikyatu Jusu, Barry Jenkins, Kibwe Tavares)

  • The Film Corner

    Drexciya in TIFF African Phantasms: New African Short Films

  • Frieze Blog

    Postcard from Zurich: 15th International Short Film Festival in Winterthur

  • La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL)

    “Mi bebé blanco”, el cual, dirigido por Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • SF Weekly

    Whip My Hair

  • 24700 News from California Institute of the Arts

    40 Festivals and Counting: Me Broni Ba (my white baby) on the Film Circuit

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