Kwesi Owusu

Director

Biography

Ghana

Dr. Kwesi Owusu is a highly experienced expert in communications and social marketing with over twenty-five years of experience working in the creative industries. He was a Senior Director of Jubilee2000, one of the most successful global marketing campaigns of all time. He led the campaign for debt relief in twenty African countries in the late 1990’s. Dr. Owusu is one of Ghana’s leading film directors and writers. He is the author of four books on culture published by Routledge, London and New York. He is an associate of the African Studies Centre at the University of Cambridge and heads Creative Storm. He is Director of Environmental Film Festival of Accra and Executive Member of the Ghana Creative Industries Foundation. Dr. Owusu was nominated Personality of the Century by the Millennium Excellence Awards (2006) and received the Arts, Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana’s award for cultural ambassador in 2008. Biography Source

Filmography

Ouaga: African Cinema Now! (1988)
Ama (2014)
Water is Life (2004)

Films Curated by AFF