Expats documentary series returns with London season focusing on Afro-Italian creatives

The documentary series Expats, created by Johanne Affricot, returns with a second season set in London. The series explores the question 'What color are Italians?' by profiling Afro-Italian creatives who have found success abroad. The first season was set in New York. The new season features two young Italian women living in London: Adaeze Ibheom, a photographer from Modena with Nigerian origins, and Stacey Gyandu, a sound editor and musician from Pordenone with Ghanaian origins. The episodes are directed by Marco Brunelli. Affricot, born and raised in Rome with Haitian and Ghanaian-American roots, founded GRIOTmag in 2015, the first Italian blog (also in English) covering diversity through creativity. She notes that while France and England have greater awareness of ethnic diversity, Italian society still struggles to accept that an Italian can be of African, Asian, Middle Eastern, or South American ethnicity. The first episode is available online; the second will be released on May 7.