Screening of "BlaxploItalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema" and Q&A with Italian-Ghanaian Filmmaker Fred Kuwornu

Come join us for a screening of "BlaxploItalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema" followed by a Q&A with Italian-Ghanaian Filmmaker Fred Kuwornu. "BlaxploItalian" is a diasporic, hybrid, critical, and cosmopolitan dimension documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers seldom heard from before: Black actors in Italian cinema starting from 1915 when the first black actor appeared in an Italian film. BlaxploItalian" cleverly discloses the personal struggles classic Afro-Italian; African-American; Afro-Caribbean and African diasporic actors faced, correlating it with the contemporary actors who work diligently to find respectable and significant roles. Sponsors: Italian Program, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Dept. of Africana Studies