Nuotama Bodomo

Nuotama Frances Bodomo (born 1988) is a Ghanaian filmmaker, writer and director.

Biography and career

Born in Ghana, to parents who are both educators, Bodomo is Dagaaba. She was also raised in Norway and Hong Kong, before moving to New York to study film at Columbia University, graduating with a BA in 2010, and NYU's Tisch Film School (MFA). Her first film, ''Boneshaker'' (2013), starring Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis, premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival before playing at SXSW, Pan African Film Festival, and Lincoln Center's African Film Festival. Her film ''Afronauts'' (2014), inspired by the Zambian project of Edward Makuka Nkoloso, had its US premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, its international premiere at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival, and was included in the exhibition "Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

She was named one of '' Filmmaker'' magazine's "25 New Faces in Independent Film" in 2014. She is based in New York City.

She directed the short segment "Everybody Dies!" for the omnibus feature Collective: Unconscious (2016), which premiered at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival. It won Best Experimental Short at the 2016 BlackStar Film Festival. In '' Film Quarterly'', Vol. 71, Number 2, in a Black Film dossier titled "Death Grips," by Michael Boyce Gillespie, Bodomo explains her 2016 film segment ''Everybody Dies!''. In 2018, Bodomo was a writer and director on '' Random Acts of Flyness'', an HBO series created by Terence Nance.

Bodomo is currently developing the feature version of ''Afronauts'', which is supported by the Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, IFP's Emerging Storytellers program, and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation.

Bodomo is a 2019 United States Artists (USA) Fellow in Film.Artists Fellow in Film
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Filmography

* ''Boneshaker'' (2013)
* '' Afronauts'' (2014)
* ''Collective: Unconscious'' (segment "Everybody Dies!") (2016)
* '' Random Acts of Flyness: Season 1'' (2018)

See also

* Black Women Filmmakers

Ghanaian Women Filmmakers
* Ghanaian Filmmakers

References

External links

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Frances Bodomo by Katie Bradshaw"
Katie Bradshaw '' Bomb Magazine''. July 9, 2013.
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30 Under 30: Frances Bodomo, Filmmaker"
Mark Asch. '' Brooklyn Magazine''. October 13, 2016.
* "Death Grips" A Black Film Dossier b
Michael Boyce Gillespie
Film Quarterly. December 4, 2017.
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Whose Place, Whose Space?: Extraterrestrial Stakes
Genevieve Quick, Art Practical. February 13, 2018.

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1988 births
Living people
Ghanaian women film directors
Ghanaian film directors
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Tisch School of the Arts alumni