{{short description|Ghanaian filmmaker, writer and director|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{For|the Afrobeat band|Shaolin Afronauts}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Nuotama Bodomo | honorific_suffix = | image = Frances Bodomo.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Bodomo at the 20th Anniversary of the New York African Film Festival in 2018 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Nuotama Frances Bodomo | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1988}} | birth_place = Ghana | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | education = Columbia University (BA) <br>Tisch School of the Arts (MFA) | known_for = ''Random Acts of Flyness'' (2018), ''Collective: Unconscious'' (2016), ''Boneshaker'' (2013) and ''Afronauts'' (2014) | movement = Afrofuturist filmmakers | spouse = | partner = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = https://nuotamabodomo.info/<!-- https://vimeo.com/tobogganeer --> | module = }} '''Nuotama Frances Bodomo''' (born 1988) is a Ghanaian filmmaker, writer and director.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/frances-bodomo/ |title=Frances Bodomo by Katie Bradshaw - BOMB Magazine |website=bombmagazine.org |access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref>

== 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).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bkmag.com/2016/10/13/30-under-30-filmmaker-frances-bodomo/ |title=30 Under 30: Frances Bodomo, Filmmaker |last=Asch |first=Mark |date=2016-10-13 |website=Brooklyn Magazine |access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/people/frances-bodomo/#.W9RksC-ZPdc |title=Frances Bodomo |last=Rizov |first=Vadim |work=Filmmaker Magazine |access-date=2018-10-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=Spring 2013|title=Alumni in the News|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/spring13/around_the_quads3|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=July 26, 2020|website=Columbia College Today}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://arts.princeton.edu/events/cinema-today-film-blackness-screening-frances-bodomo-ja-tovia-gary/ |title=Cinema Today — Film Blackness: Screening of various films by Frances Bodomo and Ja'Tovia Gary |work=Lewis Center for the Arts |access-date=2018-03-10}}</ref> Her film ''Afronauts'' (2014), inspired by the Zambian project of Edward Makuka Nkoloso, had its US premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://powderroomfilms.com/news/afronauts-premiere-sundance-film-festival-2014/ |title=AFRONAUTS to premiere at SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2014 |website=Powder Room Films |access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref> its international premiere at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://powderroomfilms.com/news/afronauts-international-premiere-berlinale-2014/ |title=AFRONAUTS: international premiere at Berlinale 2014 |website=Powder Room Films |access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref> and was included in the exhibition "Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Dreamlands |title=Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 |publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art |website=whitney.org |access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref>

She was named one of ''Filmmaker'' magazine's "25 New Faces in Independent Film" in 2014.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://filmmakermagazine.com/people/frances-bodomo/#.WMRV-RLyuRs |title=Frances Bodomo |last=Rizov |first=Vadim |work=Filmmaker Magazine |access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref> She is based in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bkmag.com/2016/10/13/30-under-30-filmmaker-frances-bodomo/ |title=30 Under 30: Frances Bodomo, Filmmaker |last=Asch |first=Mark |date=2016-10-13 |website=Brooklyn Magazine |access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref>

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,"<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://filmquarterly.org/2017/12/04/winter-2017-volume-71-number-2/ |title=Winter 2017: Volume 71, Number 2 |date=2017-12-04 |work=Film Quarterl |access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.salon.com/2018/08/23/terence-nash-on-random-acts-of-flyness-how-hbos-most-daring-show-gets-made/ |title=Terence Nance on "Random Acts of Flyness": How HBO's most daring show gets made |date=2018-08-23 |work=Salo |access-date=2018-09-04}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=United States Artists » 2019 Fellows |url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/2019-fellows/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |language=en-US}}</ref>

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

== See also == * Black Women Filmmakers * [http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2016/05/joyce-osei-owusu-ghanaian-women-and.html Ghanaian Women Filmmakers] * Ghanaian Filmmakers

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{Official website}} * {{IMDb name|3707816}} * "[http://bombmagazine.org/article/7268/ Frances Bodomo by Katie Bradshaw"], Katie Bradshaw ''Bomb Magazine''. July 9, 2013. * "[http://www.bkmag.com/2016/10/13/30-under-30-filmmaker-frances-bodomo/ 30 Under 30: Frances Bodomo, Filmmaker"], Mark Asch. ''Brooklyn Magazine''. October 13, 2016. * "Death Grips" A Black Film Dossier by [https://www.dukeupress.edu/film-blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie], Film Quarterly. December 4, 2017. * "[http://www.artpractical.com/column/whose-place-whose-space-extraterrestrial-stakes/ Whose Place, Whose Space?: Extraterrestrial Stakes]" Genevieve Quick, Art Practical. February 13, 2018. * [https://iffr.com/en/blog/hbf-development-2023 Hubert Bals Fund development selection 2023]

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