Film Screening of Il Moro (The Moor)
and Moderated Q&A Discussion with Filmmaker, Daphne Di Cinto
Room 807 Schermerhorn Hall -Columbia University
Free but Registration is Required
Event Registration
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**Please note that the film is in Italian with English subtitles.** The run time for the film is approximately 22 minutes. Due to limited capacity, the event is open to current Columbia University community members only; thus, we request those interested in attending to use a Columbia University email to register. Doors open at 6:45 pm with opening remarks commencing at 7 pm sharp.
Please join us for a special, in-person film screening of the short film Il Moro (The Moor), followed by an exciting Q&A session with the film's director, producer and screenwriter, Daphne Di Cinto. The film -- which has garnered many awards and is currently longlisted for Oscars 2024 -- centers on the captivating story of Alessandro de' Medici, the first Black Duke of Florence and the illegitimate son of a woman of Moorish descent and Pope Clement VII. Following the screening, second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Heather Nickels will moderate the Q&A discussion with Di Cinto.
SPEAKER BIOS
Daphne Di Cinto is a Black Italian screenwriter, director and actor. She began her film and theatre studies in Rome, where she focused on acting at Scuola di Cinema, while getting her degree in Communication Science at Roma Tre University. She attended the faculty of cinema at Sorbonne University in Paris before moving to New York for her Master in Fine Arts at the Actors Studio Drama School. At the moment she lives in London, but is still very much connected to Italy. As a screenwriter, she has developed both features and series within various genres, from comedy to sci-fi, with a keen interest in topics such as historical memory, ethnic identity, migrations and the female gaze. Daphne played the Duchess of Hastings in the Netflix series Bridgerton.
Heather Nickels is an art historian, curator, writer and second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. At Columbia, her work focuses on the Art and Architecture of Africa and Its Diaspora, and she is particularly interested in historic and contemporary representations of race and Blackness in Europe; African American artists of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, particularly those who left the United States; and Black women artists of the early twentieth century. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College at Columbia University, and her Master of Arts from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London, U.K.
This event is generously supported by Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies (AAADS) Columbia University via AAADS Chair, Dr. Kellie Jones Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Department of Art History & Archaeology and African American & African Diaspora Studies; Dr. Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of Art History in the Arts of Islam in the Department of Art History & Archaeology; and Dr. Sarah Cole, Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Interim Dean of Columbia's School of the Art.
