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Cecilia Zoppelletto

Visiting lecturer in film studies, University of Westminster

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.