Nazareth College's Casa Italiana is teaming up with Italian Cultural Institute in New York City and the University of Rochester's Modern Languages and Cultures to bring film director Fred Kuwornu to Rochester for screenings of his films Inside Buffalo and 18 IUS Soli on January 29 and January 30.   Both screenings are free and open to the pu...

11/3/2015 Start Time: 2:30 PM. Center for Italian Studies - West Campus - Harriman Hall - 100 Nicolls Road - Main Entrance - Stony Brook, NY 11794. Presentation by Fred Kuwornu, Ghanaian/Italian activist-producer-writer-director, who will comment on and screen his documentary, Blaxploitalian 100 years of Blackness in the It...

The Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago Andrea Raos is pleased to invite you to the screening of "18 IUS SOLI". The strange case of citizenship in modern Italy by Fred Kuwornu   A documentary about ethnicity, national identity, and multiculturalism in contemporary Italy by Italian-Ghanaian filmmaker Fred...

Italian-African filmmaker and social activist Fred Kudjo Kuwornu will visit the Western Illinois University campus Wednesday, Nov. 5, to speak from 7-9 p.m., in the Sandburg Theater.   Kuwornu will screen and discuss his documentary film, "Inside Buffalo," a multi-awarded documentary shot in Italy and the United States. It tells the "forgott...

by Sante Matteo   Italian-Ghanaian documentarist Fred Kuwornu will be coming to the Miami University campus next week to present and discuss two of his films: 18 IUS SOLI and Inside Buffalo.    There has been a change in dates: he will be here at the beginning of the week, Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 16 and 17, and not the 19th...

The San Diego Italian Film Festival, working with UCSD Italian Studies and Ethnic Studies, and SDSU Italian Studies, will mark February by celebrating Black History Month. And all of this is so that we can get closer to the culture we love, so that we can understand better and know more about this special way of living and relating that is part of...

by Valeria Fanelli    There are presently 1,000,000 young people who were born in Italy, speak Italian fluently, have studied in Italian schools and have lived in Italy all their lives, yet, they are not entitled to Italian citizenship.   The Italian Cultural Institute will bring attention to this controversial topic by showing a...

The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, located on Staten Island, N.Y., offers a wide variety of educational and cultural events. On Tuesday, March 5, Casa Belvedere will screen the 2012 award-winning Italian documentary "18 IUS SOLI" ("We are Italians. Just not Legally"), which examines the law that denies citizenship to young people bo...

"18 Ius Soli" a 2012 Award-winning grassroots Italian documentary by Fred Kuwornu about the issues of immigration and citizenship in modern Italy. In interviews with 18 young men and women, it illustrates the plight of 1.000.000 young people born and raised in Italy but unable to acquire an Italian citizenship, because their parents are immigrants....

Inside Buffalo (2010), an award-winning documentary, tells the story of the Buffalo Soldiers, the all black 92nd Army Division (whose name goes back to the U.S. Indian Wars) which fought an extraordinarily brave campaign against the Nazis along the supposedly unbreakable Gothic Line in Tuscany. These American soldiers faced not only an extremely to...