Anita Safowaa is an interdisciplinary artist who builds storytelling environments through film, installation and participatory work. Her practice explores memory and transformation; challenging dominant historical narratives by centering lived experience and collective voice. Through immersive, sensorial experiences, she invites audiences to question inherited perspectives and consider new ways of understanding themselves, one another and the world around them.
Her focus is to create work for those who have been overlooked or excluded from dominant narratives. She believes that everyone should have the opportunity to recognise the value of their own voice and that by creating environments where stories are experienced rather than simply consumed, art can spark reflection, encourage action and contribute to more expansive and equitable ways of understanding our humanity.
Anita’s work has shown at BAFTA-qualifying festivals including London Short Film Festival, Aesthetica Film Festival. In 2020, she was a Film London FLAMIN Fellow. She has also worked with Tate Britain, Museum of Youth Culture, South London Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts London.
PAST CLIENTS
Tate Britain, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, South London Gallery, Film and Video Umbrella, eBay
SELECTED SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS
2025 Filmmaking with Archives - Muesum of Youth Culture x Roundhouse, UK
2022 Childhood.Memories.00s - Metroland Studios, UK
2021 HOME X SAINT OGUN One Year Anniversary Exhibition - HOME, UK
2020 Current Transmissions - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, UK
2019 Experiments: Leftfield & Luscious - London Short Film Festival, UK
2018 Artist Film Programme - Aesthetica Film Festival, UK
2018 Playback Festival: In association with Random Acts - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, UK
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS / PANEL DISCUSSIONS
BBC Arts - ‘360-degree video offers a rare glimpse of Asante customs’
DAZED - ‘Watch seven short films from bold, innovative new directors’
Film London - The FLAMIN Fellowship: Anita Safowaa artist interview
Film London - Film London Masterclass: An Introduction to Artists working with Film
Creative England x Leeds Arts University - Is Freelancing For You?
Girls in Film - To Those Before Me, Film Review
COMMISSIONS / GRANTS
2023 Momentum Programme by We Are Parable; in partnership with Channel4
2021 ‘Alternative ways of interacting with archival materials’ -Developing Your Creative Practice - Arts Council England
2021 HOME x C4SC Black Women Artists Grant
2020 Film London FLAMIN Fellowship
2019 BBC New Creatives
2018 STOP.PLAY.RECORD in collaboration with Channel 4’s Random Acts
Her focus is to create work for those who have been overlooked or excluded from dominant narratives. She believes that everyone should have the opportunity to recognise the value of their own voice and that by creating environments where stories are experienced rather than simply consumed, art can spark reflection, encourage action and contribute to more expansive and equitable ways of understanding our humanity.
Anita’s work has shown at BAFTA-qualifying festivals including London Short Film Festival, Aesthetica Film Festival. In 2020, she was a Film London FLAMIN Fellow. She has also worked with Tate Britain, Museum of Youth Culture, South London Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts London.
PAST CLIENTS
Tate Britain, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, South London Gallery, Film and Video Umbrella, eBay
SELECTED SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS
2025 Filmmaking with Archives - Muesum of Youth Culture x Roundhouse, UK
2022 Childhood.Memories.00s - Metroland Studios, UK
2021 HOME X SAINT OGUN One Year Anniversary Exhibition - HOME, UK
2020 Current Transmissions - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, UK
2019 Experiments: Leftfield & Luscious - London Short Film Festival, UK
2018 Artist Film Programme - Aesthetica Film Festival, UK
2018 Playback Festival: In association with Random Acts - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, UK
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS / PANEL DISCUSSIONS
BBC Arts - ‘360-degree video offers a rare glimpse of Asante customs’
DAZED - ‘Watch seven short films from bold, innovative new directors’
Film London - The FLAMIN Fellowship: Anita Safowaa artist interview
Film London - Film London Masterclass: An Introduction to Artists working with Film
Creative England x Leeds Arts University - Is Freelancing For You?
Girls in Film - To Those Before Me, Film Review
COMMISSIONS / GRANTS
2023 Momentum Programme by We Are Parable; in partnership with Channel4
2021 ‘Alternative ways of interacting with archival materials’ -Developing Your Creative Practice - Arts Council England
2021 HOME x C4SC Black Women Artists Grant
2020 Film London FLAMIN Fellowship
2019 BBC New Creatives
2018 STOP.PLAY.RECORD in collaboration with Channel 4’s Random Acts