Akosua Adoma Owusu named for Goethe Institut’s Vila Sul Residency programme
Ghanaian-American cinematographer Akosua Adoma Owusu has been named for the prestigious Goethe Institut’s Vila Sul Residency programme to develop her forthcoming debut feature film. Taking place from June 4 to July 27, the programme will see the Kwaku Ananse filmmaker join other prominent creatives as visual artist Cécile Martin, choreographer Augusto Soledade, JJ18, and artistic group Dimenti. Part of […]
#BlackStarDelight – Akosua Adoma Owusu wins @ International Black Film Festival
Reluctantly Queer, a movie directed by Ghanaian Filmmaker, Akosua Adoma Owusu won Best International Short Film at the 2016 Baltimore International Black Film Festival (BIBFF). The movie is about the unsettling life of a young Ghanaian man struggling to reconcile his love for his mother with his love for same-sex desire amid the increased tensions incited by same-sex […]
M.anifest is music director for new Chimamanda Adichie adaptation
Rapper M.anifest has been announced as music director for the adaptation of international Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “On Monday of Last Week”. The movie, of a Nigerian woman named Kamara who babysits the spoiled middle-school-aged boy of a wealthy American couple: an endlessly busy artist mother and a father whose over-protection of their son […]
Full Cast for Akosua Adoma Owusu’s ‘On Monday of Last Week’ Announced
After receiving the exclusive film rights to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story On Monday of Last Week, producer/director Akosua Adoma Owusu immediately began securing the cast and production details needed before formally launching the project. Obibini Pictures LLC is pleased to announce the full cast for On Monday of Last Week. This exciting cast brings […]
#BlackStarDelight – New Akosua Adoma Owusu project stars An African City’s Esosa E
Film maker Akosua Adoma Owusu’s new move is an interpretation of 1975 classic fashion-infused drama ‘Mahogany’ and stars An African City’s Esosa E as lead character. Titled Mahogany Too, it examines and revives Diana Ross’ iconic portrayal of Tracy Chambers, a determined and energetic African-American woman enduring racial disparities while pursuing her dreams. “While living […]
Akosua Adoma Owusu makes LIST OF 6 Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Redefined Cinema
With the tragic passing of one of avant-garde cinema’s most important contributors, Chantal Akerman, here are six other female filmmakers whose contributions to the tradition of experimental film continue to change the landscape of art cinema, Indiewire‘s Aubrey Page writes, and lists Ghana’s Akosua Adoma Owusu as one. The five others include: Maya Deren, Barbara Hammer, Janie […]
Akosua Adoma Owusu debuts civil rights-focused short film
Having tackled African folklore and European colonialism in her previous projects, award-winning filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu has turned her attention to the American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s. Her current project, “Bus Nut,” produced by Obibini Pictures takes a fresh look at a well-known narrative – the 1955 Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. The […]
Akosua Adoma Owusu Named Recipient of Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
We have been following, for quite a while now, the career of the extraordinary filmmaker and artist Akosua Adoma Owusu, who films are in the permanent collections of both the Whitney Museum in New York and the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Last summer, for example, Tambay reported (HERE) on her experimental feature film, “Black Sunshine,” […]
Kwaku Ananse Director Akosua Adoma Owusu to Debut Civil Rights-Focused Short Film
Having tackled African folklore and European colonialism in her previous projects, award-winning filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu has turned her attention to the American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s. Her current project, “Bus Nut,” produced by Obibini Pictures takes a fresh look at a well-known narrative – the 1955 Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. The […]
Akosua Adoma Owusu’s ‘Black Sunshine’ gets Tribeca Film Institute grant
Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) today announced fifteen promising new projects selected for the 12th annual Tribeca All Access (TAA) program, along with two members of the LGBT filmmaking community selected as special fellows to attend its annual market during the Tribeca Film Festival. The TAA program supports filmmakers from statistically underrepresented communities and will grant support […]