“Blaxploitalian. Cent’anni di Afrostorie nel cinema Italiano” (2016, 65′) di Fred Kuwornu, un documentario che rivela le carriere di un gruppo di artisti di di cui non si era mai parlato prima: gli attori neri nel cinema italiano. A seguire, incontro con il regista Fred Kuwornu.
Fred “Kudjo” Kuwornu is an activist-producer-director-speaker born and raised in Italy and based in Brooklyn. His mother is an Italian Jew, and his father a Ghanaian surgeon who lived in Italy since the early 60’s. Fred Kuwornu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Mass Media, from the University of Bologna. After his experience, working with the production crew of Spike Lee film’s “Miracle at St. Anna”, in 2010 Fred Kuwornu produced and directed the Award-winning documentary Inside Buffalo about the African-American veterans who fought in Italy during World War II. In 2012, he released “18 IUS SOLI “which examines Afro-Italians in Italy but also specifically looks at questions of citizenship for the one million children of immigrants born and raised in Italy but not yet Italian citizens. In 2016, He released “Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema”.
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