Italy / UK

Cecilia, born in Padua, Italy and based in London since 1994, has worked as a news producer for the Italian national broadcasting company RAI and as TV host and writer for the Italian network Antenna Tre Nordest. Cecilia is a PhD researcher at the University of Westminster. Her research titled Decolonisation through ‘Development Films’: Constructing and Re-Constructing the Zairian Spirit on Film explores the archives of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the country's national film image of post-independence. She is a documentary filmmaker, director and producer of La Belle At The Movies (2015), the short experimental film Falling (2017) and currently in production of the film Jews of Congo (working title). Biography Source

Filmography

La Belle at the Movies (2015)
Falling (2017)
Ota Benga (2023)
A.P. Giannini - Bank to the Future (2024)