Akosua Adoma Owusu belongs to the record of cinema as a figure whose work outlasted the productions that carried it.
The record lists Akosua Adoma Owusu as Ghanaian-American filmmaker and producer (born 1984).
Akosua Adoma Owusu was born at Alexandria in 1984. Her recorded nationality is Ghana. She trained at California Institute of the Arts and University of Virginia.
By this period cinema was global and fragmented: independent finance, festival circuits and television drama competing for the same talent.
The record gives her roles in the industry as film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Film is a collaborative art in which individual credit is always contested and occasionally deserved.
That the work was made from Ghana shaped it: national industries differ in what they finance, who they cast and which audiences they can reach.
Akosua Adoma Owusu is still working, and the shape of the career is not yet settled.
Achievements
- Worked as film director, screenwriter and film producer
