Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, born and raised in Italy, is an Italian-Ghanaian activist, producer, writer, and director based in Brooklyn, NY and Rome. In 2010, after working with the production crew of Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna (2008), he produced and directed the award-winning documentary Inside Buffalo, about the untold story of the African-American soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Division, who valiantly fought side-by-side with Italian partisans against the Nazis along the Gothic Line, mainly in Tuscany. 18 lus Soli, based on interviews with 18 successful young men and women born in Italy of immigrant parents, followed in 2011. Kuwornu founded the non-profit organization Diversity Italia, to promote the importance of racial and ethnic diversity in Europe, using film and other media as tools for building a more inclusive society.