Visiting lecturer in film studies, University of Westminster
Cecilia Zoppelletto, PhD, started her career as a news producer for the London
correspondence bureau of RAI, the Italian National Broadcasting Company, and later
worked as a factual content producer for the Italian network Antenna Tre Nordest. She is
the founder and director of Preston Witman Productions in London. Cecilia made her
directorial debut with La Belle at The Movies (2015), which screened at more than twenty
international film festivals, including the African Film Festival at Lincoln Center, New York,
and the BFI British Film Institute in London in 2019. She is a visiting lecturer at the
University of Westminster in London and in 2020, she initiated the film studies program at
the Académie des Beaux Arts in Kinshasa. In 2023, she completed two documentaries,
which she co-produced and co-directed: the short animation film Ota Benga about the
pigmy who was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo, and the feature AP Giannini: Bank to the Future about the founder of Bank of America. During the same year, she established the company
Zop Media Consulting in DRC. In 2024 Cecilia has joined the Board of Directors of African
Film Festival Inc in New York City. She is a creator and an educator with a keen interest in
archive preservation.
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