AKOSUA ADOMA OWUSU is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Her films explore the colliding identities of black immigrants in America through multiple forms ranging from cinematic essays to experimental narratives to reconstructed Black popular media. Owusu aims to create a third cinematic space or consciousness. In her works, feminism, queerness, and African identities interact in African, white American, and black American cultural spaces.

Since 2005, Owusu’s films have screened internationally in festivals and museums. Named by IndieWire as one of six preeminent “avant-garde female filmmakers who redefined cinema,” she was a featured artist of the 56th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She has received numerous awards and grants including the Gardner Film Study Fellowship (2021), the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists (2020), the Camargo Foundation Fellowship (2016), the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2015), the Africa Movie Academy Award (2013), the MacDowell Colony fellowship (2013) and the Creative Capital fellowship (2012).