EDUCATION
2026 – ONGOING | Visiting PhD Student
School of Creative and Performing Arts, Liverpool Hope University
Tutor: Noel Brown
2024 – ONGOING | PhD in Arts, History, Society
Department of the Arts, University of Bologna
Thesis: The European Animation Industry: Sustainable Practices and Policies. The Italian Case
Supervisor: Marco Cucco
Co-supervisor: Cristina Formenti
Scholarship funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region within research training projects. Area: Technological, cultural, economic and social transition towards sustainability (PR FSE+ 2021/2027 - DGR no. 225 of 12/02/2024) - CUP J33C240002
Theme: SplaSH: Storytelling for Habitat Sustainability
2023 – 2024 | Master’s Degree in Film and Audiovisual Management
University of Bologna
2020 – 2022 | Dual Master’s Degree in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image
University of Amsterdam
Supervisor: Bas Agterberg (Sound & Vision) | Graduated cum laude
2016 – 2019 | Bachelor’s Degree in Performing Arts and Sciences
Sapienza University of Rome
Supervisor: Dr. Pietro Masciullo | Grade: 110/110 cum laude
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
2025 – ONGOING | Italian Short Film Atlas
Project conducted by the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna, Concorto Film Festival, and the National Short Film Center.
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CONFERENCE PAPERS AND TALKS
2025 | L’industria europea dell’animazione: pratiche politiche sostenibili. Il caso italiano
Ricerche dottorali. Fonti e metodi. VII edizione
University of Parma
17 November 2025
2025 | “Nota per il Clean-Up: Aurora diventa Belle, Filippo diventa la Bestia.” La Disney e il riciclo degli asset
Ecomedia. Politiche, pratiche e rappresentazioni territoriali dell’audiovisivo in Italia
University of Padua
4-5 November 2025
2025 | Bring Traditional Animation Back and Forward. The Role of Netflix in the Rise of Hybrid Animation
Film and Television’s Transformations in the Streaming Era. Reconceiving Aesthetics, Narratives and Forms
ECREA Film and Television Studies Conference
University of Bologna
8-9 Septtember 2025
2025 | Lively Green. Sustainable Practices and Ecological Imaginaries in Contemporary Animation
Mediating Italy in Global Culture Summer School 2025 VIII
University of Bologna, University of Salento, Lecce
8-11 June 2025
ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPATION
2025 | Italian Short Film Atlas. Cultura e industria del cortometraggio in Italia
Concorto Film Festival
Piacenza
20 August 2025
2022 | Flashbacks: Voices and Visions from the Past
Movies That Matter
The Hague (online)
14 April 2022
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CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR ORGANIZATION
2025 | Member of the Local Organizing Committee, ECREA Film and Television Studies Conference 2025
Film and Television’s Transformations in the Streaming Era: Reconceiving Aesthetics, Narratives and Forms
Edited by Luca Barra, Marco Cucco (University of Bologna), Cathrin Bengesser (Aarhus University, Denmark), Deborah Castro (University of Groningen, Netherlands), Miguel Fernández Labayen (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), Jono Van Belle (Örebro University, Sweden)
University of Bologna
8–9 September 2025
2022 | Panel Convenor, Flashbacks: Voices and Visions from the Past
Movies That Matter
The Hague
14 April 2022
2021 | Member of the Student Organizing Committee, The Afghan Film Archive
Open lecture with director Ariel Nassr. Part of the series This Is Film! Film Heritage in Practice
University of Amsterdam, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
21 April 2021
EDITORIAL WORK
2025 | Editorial work for The Matter of Intellectual Property: Studying the Economic, Political and Cultural Nodes of the Contemporary Media Industries
Edited by Paola Brembilla, Marco Cucco, Christopher Meir
Media Mutations Publishing, Bologna, 2025
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OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2025 | Lecture “Fighting the Computer”: Discourses and Practices Around CGI Fatigue
Course: Languages of the Image (Instructor: Samuel Antichi)
University of Calabria
19 November 2025
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EXTRACURRICULAR TRAINING
2025 | Summer School Mediating Italy in Global Culture, 8th Edition
University of Bologna, University of Salento, Lecce
2019 | Summer School "La critica cinematografica"
Fata Morgana Web
Lecce
11-14 July 2019
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AWARDS AND HONORS
2017 | (Re)Montaggi Award for Best Video Essay
Pesaro International Festival of New Cinema
New Hollywood as Hollywood Trauma
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OTHER EXPERIENCE
2025 – ONGOING | Programming Assistant
Movies that Matter Film Festival, The Hague
2024 | Director's Office and Programming Coordinator
MIA | Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo, Rome
2023 – 2024 | Contributor
The Hollywood Reporter Roma, Rome
2023 | Assistant to the Director
MIA | Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo, Rome
