Nuotama Bodomo
Nuotama Frances Bodomo (born 1988) is a Ghanaian filmmaker, writer and director.
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Nuotama Bodomo
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- Name
- Nuotama Bodomo
- Birth Name
- Nuotama Frances Bodomo
- Born
- 1988
- Birthplace
- Ghana
- Education
- Columbia University (BA) Tisch School of the Arts (MFA)
- Known for
- Random Acts of Flyness (2018), Collective: Unconscious (2016), Boneshaker (2013) and Afronauts (2014)
- Movement
- Afrofuturist filmmakers
- Occupation
- filmmaker · director · writer
- Languages
- English · Dagaare
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• Name — Nuotama Bodomo • Birth Name — Nuotama Frances Bodomo • Born — 1988 • Birthplace — Ghana • Education — Columbia University (BA) Tisch School of the Arts (MFA) • Known for — Random Acts of Flyness (2018), Collective: Unconscious (2016), Boneshaker (2013) and Afronauts (2014) • Movement — Afrofuturist filmmakers • Website — https: nuotamabodomo.info/
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Nuotama Bodomo (born 1988) is described as a director, author and filmmaker in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Nuotama Bodomo was born in 1988.
Biography and career
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, the Hubert Bals Fund of International Film Festival Rotterdam, IFP's Emerging Storytellers program, and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation. Bodomo is a 2019 United States Artists (USA) Fellow in Film.
Filmography
Filmography
• Boneshaker (2013) • Afronauts (2014) • Collective: Unconscious (segment "Everybody Dies!") (2016) • Random Acts of Flyness: Season 1 (2018)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the heading Nuotama Frances Bodomo. Her recorded languages were English and Dagaare.
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- 1.Frances Bodomo by Katie Bradshaw - BOMB Magazine. bombmagazine.org.
- 2.Asch, Mark. 30 Under 30: Frances Bodomo, Filmmaker. Brooklyn Magazine. 2016-10-13.
- 3.Rizov, Vadim. Frances Bodomo. Filmmaker Magazine.
- 4.Alumni in the News. Columbia College Today. Spring 2013.
- 5.Cinema Today — Film Blackness: Screening of various films by Frances Bodomo and Ja'Tovia Gary. Lewis Center for the Arts.
- 6.AFRONAUTS to premiere at SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2014. Powder Room Films.
- 7.AFRONAUTS: international premiere at Berlinale 2014. Powder Room Films.
- 8.Whitney Museum of American Art. Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016. whitney.org.
- 9.Rizov, Vadim. Frances Bodomo. Filmmaker Magazine.
- 10.Asch, Mark. 30 Under 30: Frances Bodomo, Filmmaker. Brooklyn Magazine. 2016-10-13.
- 11.Winter 2017: Volume 71, Number 2. Film Quarterl. 2017-12-04.
- 12.Terence Nance on "Random Acts of Flyness": How HBO's most daring show gets made. Salo. 2018-08-23.
- 13.United States Artists » 2019 Fellows.
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