Director
Akosua Adoma Owusu
Credits
Produced by Obibini Pictures, LLC
Directed & Produced by: Akosua Adoma Owusu
Text/Story: Adwoa Adu-Gyamfi
Cinematography: Akosua Adoma Owusu
Editor: Romulo Alejandro & Akosua Adoma Owusu
Additional Photography: Dustin Thompson and Betzy Bromberg
Production Sound: Caroline Jin Key
Sound Design & Mix: Nathan Ruyle
Location: Kumasi, Ghana
Synopsis
Me Broni Ba is a short film set in hair salon spaces of Kumasi, Ghana. Vignettes of Ghanian women and girls braiding the hair of their peers, as well as white baby dolls is accompanied by a voiceover narrative recounting the experience of a young Ghanian girl moving to a predominantly white town in the US. The girl revels at her new classmates' likeness to that of her dolls, bestowing additional meaning to the film's title.
The film uses documentary footage, slow motion images, and media and advertisement collages creating multi faceted portraits of Black womens' hair braiding practices in modern Ghana. The film cultivates a nuanced exploration of beauty standards from Ghana to the world at large, grappling with fraught issues of representation.