RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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INTERVIEWS & BOOK REVIEW
INTERVIEW ON THE DIALOGICAL GAZE PUBLISHED ON ORIZZONTI CULTURALI ITALO-ROMENI AVAILABLE AT THIS LINK
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THE DIALOGICAL GAZE BOOK REVIEW
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INTERVIEW ON THE DIALOGICAL GAZE WITH PUBLISHER
INTERVIEW ON THE LAST WARRIORS
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GRAND PRIX AWARD THE LAST WARRIORS
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IMPACT EVENTS
KU COP 28 EVENT
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
2023
Watch the films via the QR code and join the conversation on climate change.
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My Year 1 and Year 2 students on (BA) Filmmaking at Kingston University produced a series of poetic films about Climate Change screened at the Town House on 5th December 2023 as part of a successful KU COP 28 event ‘Climate Change and Us’. I had the chance to present the film screening which was organised by Dr Tânia Dias Almeida Fonseca. This one-day filmmaking challenge encouraged film students to represent themes related to climate change, global warming, and the local and global environment.
The screening offered opportunities for interdisciplinary discussions about the ways in which Kingston University staff and students can co-operate to address the climate crisis at local and global levels. |
SUNFLOWERS FOR UKRAINE
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
2022
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I organised this event in collaboration with a group of students from the University of Bristol. We were joined by the Vice-Chair of Amnesty International (Bristol), Hannah Martin, to discuss the refugee crisis. Award-winning Ukrainian director Dzen Yevstigneykin, whom I met at Art Travel Festival in Ukraine, was also in attendance on Zoom from Ukraine.
Event info: Meet the University of Bristol students who have flown out to help Ukrainian refugees in Poland as featured on the BBC followed by an exclusive screening of Djakuyu (2017) - an award-winning Ukrainian film made by a Ukrainian director in attendance at the event. The event includes a discussion about the refugee crisis and meaningful ways to help. This urgent humanitarian event involves leading experts in the field and is supported by Amnesty International Bristol, Bristol Student Union, Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and Kharkiv International Festival of Arts and Travel. |
THE DIALOGICAL GAZE BOOK PRESENTATIONS
MILAN CULTURE HALL
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Claudia Lazar (Visual Arts Manager at IRCRU Venice), Valentina Ippolito (author),
Francesco Saverio Marzaduri (film critic and Festival Organizer). |
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Further Information about the event is available here
BOOK LAUNCH, ROYAL PALACE OF NAPLES (Palazzo Reale di Napoli)
2021
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ACADEMIC TALKS
- ‘Romanian Migrants in Contemporary Italian Cinema of Migration’, Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol, March 2021. Invited speaker.
- ‘Karen Women’, Screen Research in Conversation, Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol, November 2020. Invited speaker.
- Violence against migrant prostitutes, an analysis of Vesna va veloce/ Vesna goes fast (1996) by Carlo Mazzacurati’, Representation in the arts of (in)visible violence against women and their resistance. Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) Visual and Performing Arts Research Group. Adelaide, Australia, October 2019.
- ‘The Journey Through Imagination: Francesca’, The Xth Annual Graduate Conference in Italian Studies. University College Cork. Cork, Ireland, October 2019.
- ‘The photographic motherland in Il resto della notte/The rest of the night (2008) by Francesco Munzi’, Intersections, Art and Photography in Italian Cinema, Florence, May 2019.
- ‘Representing Romanian Migration in Contemporary Italian Documentary Films’, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Italian Graduate Conference. Los Angeles University. LA, USA, January 2016.
- ‘The urban space in Italian migration cinema: between reality of migration and the utopia of the Other in Cover-Boy: the last revolutionby filmmaker Carmine Amoroso’, Making and Unmaking the (New) Italian City: The (re)creation of the Urban Space in Literary and Filmic Texts. Canadian Society for Italian Studies. June 2015.
PEMBROKE COLLEGE NEWS & EVENTS
PEMBROKE COLLEGE FUNDING EVENT
VALENTINA IPPOLITO DEPUTY LEADER LOOKING CHINA PROJECT
PEMBROKE COLLEGE PRESENTATION SKILLS AT THE YOUNG VIC
PEMBROKE FILM MASTERCLASS SERIES
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
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An Evening with Amanda Nevill CBE
British Film Institute CEO
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A talk with Amanda Nevill was followed by a Q&A and a drinks reception. The evening was chaired by Valentina Ippolito, Founder of the Pembroke Film Masterclass Series. Amanda Nevill joined the BFI in 2003 and has led its complete transformation into a major organisation valued by the UK industry and recognised as influential internationally. Amanda’s great focus is on nurturing the next generation of filmmakers and audiences. Amanda pioneered the development of the VOD platform BFI Player, launched the BFI Film Academy and BFI Film Audience Network across the UK, transformed BFI Southbank into one of London’s coolest arts venues and ensured the BFI London Film Festival is one of the most significant film festivals in the world.
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Before the BFI, Amanda was Head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (National Media Museum) for nine years, also serving as one of the Executive Directors of the National Museum of Science & Industry. Before that she was CEO of the Royal Photographic Society. Amanda is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. She holds an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Bradford University, an Honorary Fellowship from Bradford College and an honorary degree of Doctor from the University of York in 2015. She was awarded a CBE in 2015.
Interview with Nick Broomfield
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This Masterclass discussed the making of Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014), HBO's documentary by award winning documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield and offers attendees the invaluable opportunity to network with one of the most highly regarded documentary filmmakers in the film industry. Film screening will be followed by Q&As with the Director. Tales of the Grim Sleeper investigates into the murders of serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr. in Los Angeles. Lonnie Franklin Jr was arrested in July 2010 after a 25 year killing spree in which it is thought he could have killed over a 100 victims, potentially making him the most prolific serial killer in history. Significantly his arrest was not the product of painstaking detective work but completely accidental, the result of a computer DNA match that linked him to a possible 20 victims. Franklin now awaits trial. Tales of the Grim Sleeper looks into how it was possible for all this to happen.
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The Time Is Now
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The Masterclass opened with a free screening of Dreamcatcher (2015), a highly-acclaimed Sundance 2014 prize-winning film by British filmmaker Kim Longinotto. Dreamcatcher takes us into a hidden world through the eyes of one of its survivors; Brenda Myers-Powell. A former teenage prostitute who worked the streets of Chicago, Brenda defied the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community. With warmth and humour, Brenda gives hope to those who have none. The screening was followed by a structured series of presentations with Mia Bays (Oscar-winning and twice BAFTA nominated creative producer and strategic lm thinker), award-winning director Lindy Heymann, Programme Director Jo Duncombe, and audience expert Peter Buckingham. The panel discussed themes relating to gender equality in film and the surrounding culture; audience participation followed by an open discussion. |
The Migrant’s Journey: Penalty 
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This term Pembroke Film Masterclass Series turned to the dreams and hardships of migration with an event featuring award-winning director Aldo Iuliano and David di Donatello award-winning editor Marco Spoletini, joining us to discuss their new film, Penalty. An exclusive prescreening at Oxford University of Penalty, directed by award-winning director Aldo Iuliano, shot by Golden Osella laureate Daniele Ciprì and edited by David di Donatello Award-winner Marco Spoletini, was preceded by a brief introduction to the cinema of migration by Professor Guido Bonsaver. The prescreening was followed by a talk with the film’s director and editor, and the screening of a making-of featurette, as well as a special message from the DoP, Ciprì. An open-format discussion with the artists concluded the masterclass.
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Character and Place in the Films of Marc Isaacs
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Since 2001 Marc Isaacs has made more than ten creative documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. His films have won Grierson, Royal Television Society and BAFTA awards, as well as numerous international Film Festival prizes, including one from the Krakow Film Festival. The transient space is a prominent feature of the documentary films of Marc Isaacs. This masterclass looked at why the idea of transience is so crucial to Marc's working practice, and included clips from his films as well as a chance to ask questions. |