USA and Brazil / 2019 / 9mins / Documentary / English and Portuguese

Freely inspired by a 1927 letter from American sociologist and Pan-Africanist W.E.B. Du Bois to the American embassy in Brazil, this colorful film takes us back to a time when it was impossible for African Americans to travel to Brazil and reminds us of the inequality still faced by the Black inhabitants of that country.

Akosua Adoma Owusu

Akosua Adoma Owusu is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker, producer and cinematographer whose films have screened worldwide in prestigious film festivals, museums, galleries, universities and micro-cinemas since 2005. She has exhibited worldwide including Berlinale, Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival, and the New York African Film Festival at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. She participated as a featured artist at the 56th Robert Flaherty Seminar programmed by renowned film critic Dennis Lim. She has won numerous fellowships and grants including from the Guggenheim Foundation, Knight Foundation, Creative Capital, MacDowell Colony, Camargo Foundation the Goethe-Institut Salvador-Bahia, and most recently from the Residency Program at Villa Sträuli in Winterthur, Switzerland. Her recent projects include reviving Ghana’s historic Rex Cinema as a creative space for art, music, and film. Owusu received her MFA in Film/Video and Art at the California Institute of the Arts. Currently, she divides her time between Ghana and New York, where she works as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Her films are produced under her production company Obibini Pictures LLC. Akosua Adoma Owusu is represented by Andrew Farber at Farber Law LLC. Learn More