Fred Kudjo Kuwornu answers questions after the screening of his film “We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe” in Wells Hall on Feb. 12, 2025. Kuwornu is an award ...

Acclaimed Italian filmmaker and activist Fred Kudjo Kuwornu will bring his thought-provoking film, “We Were Here: The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe,” to the Wexner Center for ...

The Black Europe Film Festival‘s final day focused on lesser-known Black history in The Art of Remembering: Black Lives in Painting film showcase Sunday. The Art of Remembering: Black Lives in ...

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Poster of We Were Here – The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, the 63-minute documentary exhibited at the Venice Biennale and now in Oscar consideration. A scene from We Were ...

Connecting the past to the present, the documentary ‘We Were Here’ sparks conversations about representation, belonging, and historical memory. (Courtesy UCSB MCC) The Renaissance is often imagined as ...

Fred Kudjo Kuwornu is an Italian-Ghanaian filmmaker, producer, film curator and educator who holds both Italian and American citizenship, based in New York. He is best known as the director of ...