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If you haven t checked out
Zero on Netflix yet, please do yourself a favor and watch it ASAP. The action series debuted on April 21, and it s already made history as the first Italian show to spotlight a predominantly Black cast. Created by author Antonio Dikele Distefano,
Zero follows a shy young man named Zero/Omar who discovers he can become invisible. As a result, he teams up with a group of neighborhood kids and uses his superpower to try to save Milan s Barrio neighborhood from being gentrified. The show features a cast of talented newcomers, including Giuseppe Dave Seke and Dylan Magon, as well as familiar faces Beatrice Grannò, Virginia Diop, and Madior Fall. Get to know the rest of the
film profile]) - a girl hailing from the affluent Milanese classes with a seemingly perfect life, who Omar knows from delivering her pizzas - will be the one to recognise just how special he is as they go on to forge a close friendship.
One day, however, Omar discovers that the invisibility he feels inside of him every day can be transformed into a genuine superpower: he can disappear at will. His new friends - Sharif (
Haroun Fall), Momo (
Daniela Scattolin) and Inno (
Madior Fall) – convince him to use this extraordinary gift for a good cause: he must save their beloved Barrio neighbourhood from acts of vandalism and from the designs of unscrupulous property developers who want to move people out of the area in order to build new luxury homes. And so Omar becomes Zero, and goes from being invisible to being a hero thanks to his own invisibility.
film profile]), based upon an idea by the writer of Angolan origin
Antonio Dikele Distefano. This eight-episode production sees an Italian series placing a young, Italian man of colour at the heart of its story, for the very first time, supported by a wholly multicultural cast of young, second generation immigrants, to tackle themes such as diversity, inclusion, gentrification and the sense of belonging within an outer suburb of Milan which has never been shown before.
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Directed by
Mohamed Hossameldin,
Giuseppe Dave Seke), a young food delivery driver who lives with his father Thierno (