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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dear MAAS friends,
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">On Friday September 29<sup>th</sup> MAAS welcomes Italian-Ghanaian filmmaker Fred Kuwornu. He will screen his documentary
<b>"Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Black in Italian Cinema" </b>at 10 am in the Parnassos theatre. Please feel free to join the screening and discuss the film afterwards with the filmmaker.
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Best wishes, <o:p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Marijke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Friday September 29th, Parnassos theatre, 10 – 1 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Screening <b>"Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Black in Italian Cinema</b>“ followed by discussion with filmmaker Fred Kuwornu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">If you would like to attend, send an email to Marijke de Valck (<a href="mailto:m.devalck@uu.nl">m.devalck@uu.nl</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xp1"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Film description short<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="xp1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">"Blaxplo<span style="color:#1F497D">i</span>talian" is a critical<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>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.
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<p><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">"Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Black in Italian Cinema" </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">it's a diasporic, hybrid, 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. Blaxploitalian cleverly discloses the personal struggles classic Afro-Italian and African diasporic actors faced,
correlating it with the contemporary actors who work diligently to find respectable and significant roles. It’s not only a film talk about black actors, but a critical analysis about diversity and typecasting in all the international media industry. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Filmmaker<span style="color:black"> biography</span></span></u><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Fred "Kudjo” Kudjo is an activist-producer-director-speaker born and raised in Italy and based in Brooklyn. His mother is an Italian Jew, and his father a Ghanaian surgeon who
lived in Italy since the early 60's. After his experience, working with the production crew of Spike Lee film's “Miracle at St. Anna”, in 2010 Fred Kuwornu produced and directed the Award-winning documentary Inside Buffalo about the African-American veterans
who fought in Italy during World War II.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In 2012, he released "18 IUS SOLI "which examines Afro-Italians in Italy but also specifically looks at questions of citizenship for the one million
children of immigrants born and raised in Italy but not yet Italian citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:NL">Dr. Marijke de Valck</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:NL"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:NL">|</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:NL"> Associate
Professor </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:NL">|</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:NL"> Department
of Media and Culture Studies </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:NL">| </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:NL">Utrecht
University </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:NL">|</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:NL"> Muntstraat
2a, 3512 EV Utrecht </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:NL">| </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:NL">The
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:NL">+31 30 253 8162 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:NL">| </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:NL"><a href="mailto:m.devalck@uu.nl"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#828282">m.devalck@uu.nl</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#828282;mso-fareast-language:NL"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:NL">| </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:NL"><a href="http://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/MdeValck"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#7D7D7D">www.uu.nl/medewerkers/MdeValck</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:NL"> <span style="color:#C00000">|</span><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:NL"><a href="http://www.filmfestivalresearch.org/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#767676">www.filmfestivalresearch.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-fareast-language:NL">Coordinator MA Arts and Society (MAAS)
</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-fareast-language:NL"><a href="https://www.uu.nl/masters/en/arts-and-society"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#7F7F7F">https://www.uu.nl/masters/en/arts-and-society</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-fareast-language:NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-fareast-language:NL">New festival reviews in NECSUS Spring 2017_#True now online<br>
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