Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema
Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema
121 St. Joseph Street, Alumni Hall, Room 400
Time: Mar 10th, 5:00 pm End: Mar 10th, 8:00 pm
Interest Categories: Italian Studies (FAS), Diaspora/Transnational, Cinema, African, 2000-
Film Screening
The Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies and the Cinema Studies Institute cordially invites you to a public lecture by
Fred Kuwornu
Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema
film screening followed by Q&A with the Director
Friday March 10th, 2017 5:00 p.m. Alumni Hall 400 121 St. Joseph Street University of Toronto
Everyone is welcome and admission is free.
Please RSVP at italian.studies@utoronto.ca
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”.
