Cecilia Zoppelletto

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Cecilia Zoppelletto
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Cecilia Zoppelletto

Nationality Italian
Occupation(s)Director, producer, screenwriter, lecturer
Years active2014–present

Cecilia Zoppelletto, is an Italian filmmaker. [1] [2] She is most notable as the director of critically acclaimed Congolese documentary La Belle At The Movies. [3]

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Personal life

She was born in Padua, Italy. Since 1994, she has been based in London. [1] She has a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Westminster. [4] Since 2020 she teaches Film Studies at the Photography Department of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa, DRC.

Career

As her research, she wrote Decolonisation through ‘Development Films’: Constructing and Re-Constructing the Zairian Spirit on Film. Through the research, she explores the archives of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the country's national film image of post-independence. [1] [5]

She has worked as a news producer for the Italian national broadcasting company RAI. In the meantime, she worked as a TV host and writer for the Italian network 'Antenna Tre Nordest'. In 2015, she made the documentary La Belle At The Movies. The film gained critical acclaim and screened in the US, Belgium, UK and Democratic Republic of Congo. [6] Then in 2017, she made the experimental short film Falling. [1] Followed by an award winning animation documentary short Ota Benga (2023) and the feature documentary AP Giannini: Bank to the Future (2023) co-written and co-directed with Valentina Signorelli, PhD.

Filmography

YearFilmRoleGenreRef.
2016La Belle at the MoviesDirector, producer, writerDocumentary
2017FallingDirector, producerDocumentary short
2023Ota BengaDirector, producerDocumentary animation short
AP Giannini: Bank to the FutureDirector, producer, writerDocumentary

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