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I'M AN ORIGINAL CATCHPHRASE

Fred thus produced and directed the Award-winning documentary Inside Buffalo (“Best Documentary” at the Black Berlin International Cinema Festival). Inside Buffalo had viewings at the Pentagon, the Library of Congress and it received a letter of congratulations by President Barack Obama.

 

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President Barack H. Obama Inside Buffalo

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In 2012, he released "18 IUS SOLI "which examines multiculturalism in Italy but also specifically looks at questions of citizenship for the one million children of immigrants born and raised in Italy but are not yet Italian citizens. 

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In 2016, he released:

 "Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Black in Italian Cinema" a diasporic, hybrid, historical, critical, and cosmopolitan

 dimension documentary . African descent actors in Italian cinema.He is developing the  project "The Black Italians Timeline".

He worked in collaboration with Lorenzo Fabbri and University of Minneapolis at the documentary series

"At Home in Scott County"

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In 2020 He was the voice over for the italian version of the Netflix educational show "Bookmarks-Celebrating Black Voices" for the episode 

"Karamo Brown reads I am perfectly designed".

In 2022 He launched the nomadic series Black Italian Film Showcase, The first celebration of Afro-Italian talents in film, showcasing new features and shorts and illuminating the historical, social, and cultural aspects of Black life in Italy through film, offering the opportunity to see a diverse representation of Italy.

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Fred  believes  using film and other art forms are tools for building a more inclusive society.

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More thanks  300 Universities around the world hosted a screening/lectures by Fred Kuwornu .

He teaches courses of:

"Documentary for Social Change"

"Diversity Digital Culture in Italy"

"Black Italy". 

He had the privilege of being a guest lecturer and speaker at conferences such as:

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2018 Afro/Black Paris symposium , Dartmouth College

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2017 Annual API (Association of Professional Italianists in South Africa) Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa

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2017 American Association for Italian Studies and the Canadian Society for Italian Studies Annual Conference at Ohio State University, USA

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2017 Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies International Conference at American University of Rome, Italy.

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2016
 ALA African Literature Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, USA




2016 Intersections 2016: Crossing Italian Borders in Music, Art, Literature, Theater, and Cinema in Florence, Italy.

 

2015 
Black Portraiture[s] II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-staging Histories New York University - 2015 Conference in Florence


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2014
 Black Europe Summer School in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Fred Kudjo Kuwornu is a filmmaker activist-producer-educator, born and raised in Italy and based  New York and Minneapolis. His mother is an Italian Jew, and his father is 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 (see CV).  As a teenager, he started his career as a DJ and Producer. Later, he moved to Rome where he began working as a TV show writer for RAI public television.

After his experience, working with the production crew of Spike Lee’s “Miracle at St. Anna”, Fred decided to research the unknown story of the 92nd Infantry “Buffalo Soldiers” Division, discovering and documenting the journey taken by the real 92nd Infantry veterans, and the entire African American segregated combat unit, which fought in Europe during WW II. 

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