Spirit

Christine Boateng is a Ghanaian filmmaker, documentary photographer & film programmer based in Accra, Ghana. Her work and ideas often draw from her dreams, memory, personal experiences and intimate stories shared by people. She is fascinated by stories that explore identity and complex relationships people have with themselves and others. She believes in the power of collaboration and in the beauty of belonging in a community and spaces that can harness her craft.
Her short films have found their way to audiences worldwide through Nowness, Indie Memphis Film Festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, and Millennium Film Workshop, New York City.

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Spider’s Blanket
Ampe: Leap into the Sky, Black Girl
Spirit — Experimental Short Film
Oko ke Akueteh

Claudia Owusu (Nana Yaa Akyaa) is a Ghanaian-American poet, filmmaker, and essayist based in Columbus, Ohio. She writes from these two liminal spaces to make sense of them. She believes in the beauty of community and the intimate stories we share when we think no one is listening.
Claudia’s work engages the spaces that Black women and girls occupy, namely their relationship with safety, carefreeness, and self-ownership. She is deeply invested in personal narratives of Black girlhood and womanhood, through which she is learning to reclaim and carve space for herself. Her writing has appeared in Vogue Magazine, Clockhouse Magazine, and Brittle Paper. Her short films have screened at Nowness, Urbanworld, FilmAfrica, and Indiememphis.

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Other films:
Ampe: Leap into the Sky, Black Girl
Frame Media
Don’t Mess With My Kitchen
Afternoon Jump
From Elsewhere to Elsewhere