Join The Humanities Institute and the Departments of Literature, Film and Digital Media, and History of Art & Visual Culture for a screening of the award-winning, Oscar-qualifying short film Il Moro (Italian, with subtitles). Il Moro is a period drama based on true events in the life of Alessandro de’ Medici, the illegitimate son of a woman of African descent and Pope Clement VII who eventually became the first Black head of state in modern Western Europe. After the screening, Profs. Camilla Hawthorne and Consuelo Endrigo-Williams will moderate a Q&A with Daphne Di Cinto, the writer, director, and producer of Il Moro. About the Speaker: Daphne Di Cinto is a Black Italian screenwriter, director, actor, and producer. She began her film and theater studies in Rome, where she focused on acting at Scuola di Cinema, while earning a degree in Communication Science from Roma Tre University. She attended the faculty of cinema at Sorbonne University in Paris before moving to New York for her master’s in fine arts at the Actors Studio Drama School. Currently based in London, Daphne is writer, director, and producer of the award-winning short film Il Moro/The Moor, her directorial debut. As an actor, she played the Duchess of Hastings in the Netflix series Bridgerton.

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This event will be presented both in person and virtually. The in person location is DARC 108.

This event is co-sponsored by Italian Studies at UCSC, The Humanities Institute, the History of Art and Visual Culture Department, and the Film and Digital Media Department