Simone Brioni has written three documentaries on and with the Italian-African writers Kaha Mohamed Aden (La quarta via, 2012, directed with Ermanno Guida and Graziano Chiscuzzu), Ribka Sibhatu (Aulò, 2012, directed with Ermanno Guida and Graziano Chiscuzzu) and Geneviève Makaping (Maka, 2023, directed by Elia Moutamid). Simone teaches cinema and literature of migration at Stony Brook University in New York.