Footage Not Found: Blaxploitalian - 100 Years Of Blackness In Italian Cinema (with Fred Kuwornu)

Footage Not Found: The IU Cinema Podcast

This week's Footage Not Found features filmmaker Fred Kuwornu, the director behind the documentary film Blaxploitalian, which explores the little-known world of Italian-born and American Black performers and their roles in the Italian film industry. Fred also talks about his work with Spike Lee on the film The Miracle at Santa Anna and his role in the 2016 “Oscars So White” campaign.

Footage Not Found is a co-production of the Indiana University Cinema and WFIU Studios.

Our theme song is “Only Ones” from the band Busman's Holiday off of their recently released album Good Songs. You can currently stream Good Songs on Bandcamp and you can find out more about the band on busmansholidayband.com as well as by following them on Instagram @busmansholiday.

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You can follow Aja on Twitter @Samuraiflicks, on Letterboxd @AjaEssex and on Instagram @Aja.Essex.

Blaxploitalian:100 Years Of Blackness In Italian Cinema screening page:

https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/screening/2022-fall-program-thursday-november-3-700pm

IU Cinema’s bi-monthly calendar: https://cinema.indiana.edu/doc/fourthwall-vol1-for-website.pdf

IU Cinema’s website: https://cinema.indiana.edu/

IU Cinema’s blog, Establishing Shot: https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/