Academic Papers and Conferences
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Book presentation with the patronage of The General Consulate of Romania in Milan; The Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice and The Italian-Romanian Cultural Horizons Association. The dialogical gaze: the migratory journey to Italy in contemporary Italian and Romanian cinema. Milan Culture Hall / Salone della Cultura, Milano. November 2021. |
Claudia Lazar (Visual Arts Manager at IRCRU Venice), Valentina Ippolito (author),
Francesco Saverio Marzaduri (film critic and Festival Organizer). |
‘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.
‘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 Film Masterclass Series, University of Oxford
Supported by The Pembroke Annual Fund
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. |
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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 Placein 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.
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