Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater’s film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
FOLLOWING SCREENING WE WILL HAVE MOVIE DISCUSSION Q & A
Joanne Clarke Dillman holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University and a PhD in Cultural
Studies from George Mason University. She has taught film internationally at The American
University in Cairo and Koc University in Istanbul. In the United States, while she has taught
part-time at The Evergreen State College and Seattle University, for the last 20 years her career
has been at the University of Washington Tacoma, where she teaches a number of film studies
courses and screenwriting. Her book, Women and Death in Film, Television and News: Dead
But not Gone (2014) was published by Palgrave MacMillan (now Springer Nature). She has also
published in various film journals such as the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Journal of
Popular Culture, and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, among others. Her work is
also collected in Place, Power, Media: Mediated Responses to Globalization, published by Peter
Lang, edited by Divya McMillin Joost de Bruin and Jo Smith (2018); and Feminist and Queer
Theories: A Transnational Reader, Oxford University Press (2021), edited by L. Ayu Saraswati
and Barbara Shaw. She lives in Tacoma, WA.