“Women equality in the Film Industry: Italian and British experiences” with the participation of Italian and British female directors and producers, moderated by Silvia Pavoni, a journalist for The Banker, Founding Editor of Sustainable Views of the Financial Times.
Panel will be run by:
Carol Nahra is a documentary journalist, programmer, and lecturer based in London. She has written extensively about the UK documentary landscape for industry publications and her Docs on Screens blog. She hosts the Bertha DocHouse podcast DocHouse Conversations, is the lead trainer for the Grierson Doclab, and is a trustee for One World Media. She is a Teaching Fellow in documentary at Royal Holloway University, an Associate Lecturer on the MA in Documentary Film at London College of Communications, and an adjunct professor teaching documentary and digital media at Syracuse University, London.
Victoria Mapplebeck is a BAFTA award-winning artist and director, who has worked in film, VR and immersive audio. Victoria’s works explore autobiographical stories which ask universal questions about our relationship with technology, parenting, health and wellbeing.
Victoria has been experimenting with the frontiers of documentary and creative technology for the last two decades. In 1999, she wrote and directed Smart Hearts, Channel 4’s first interactive documentary series, in which web cams streamed live from the subjects homes for over 18 months. Her multi-platform creative works explore the many ways in which interactive and immersive technologies are evolving, exposing new content to fresh audiences on new platforms,
ALL PANELS WILL HAVE LIVE SUBTITLES
The panel is part of Women in Italian Cinema: An Inclusive Project, the first international project aimed at promoting Italian cinema written, produced and directed by women, also available in an accessible version. Co-financed by the Italian Ministry of Culture.