AICRE + European Languages and Studies. The first in a series of events exploring Blackness in Europe.
Department: European Languages and Studies
Date and Time: November 8, 2021 | 4:00 PM-6:00 PMEvent Location: HG 1030
Event Details
Film screening and talk with Ghanaian-Italian filmmaker and activist Fred (Kudjo) Kuwornu. Response by UCI Professor of African American Studies Frank Wilderson.
Fred (Kudjo) Kuwornu is a filmmaker activist-producer-educator, born and raised in Italy and now based in Brooklyn. His mother is an Italian Jew, and his father is a Ghanaian surgeon who lived in Italy starting in the early '60s. His films include Inside Buffalo (2009),18 Ius soli (2013), and Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Black in Italian Cinema (2019).
www.dotherightfilms.nyc