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18 IUS SOLI

The Right to be Italian

The documentary  examines issues of race, ethnicity, and national identity in 21st-century multicultural Italy.It includes interviews with 18 young men and women born in Italy to immigrant parents who have attended Italian schools, speak Italian, and see themselves as Italian; however they are not Italian citizens due to current law.

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INSIDE BUFFALO

They served America when America was not ready to serve them

The 92nd Buffalo division was a combat unit that was firstly all African-American and therefore largely segregated because that was the order of the day, particularly during WWII.The documentary also narrates the previously little-known story of the friendship between the African-American troops deployed in Tuscany and the local partisans...

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BLAXPLOITALIAN

100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema

A diasporic, hybrid, historical, critical, and cosmopolitan dimension 

documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers seldom heard from before: African-American and African descent actors in Italian cinema...

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New Web Doc Series

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A web doc series that experiments with the hybridization of documentary and an esthetic storytelling of social media. The series details the historical presence of Afrodescendants in Italy, hence presenting not only the recent history of refugees and migrants of the 1990s, but also the broad and incredibly rich universe of Italians of African descent who have been influencing Italian mass culture...

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