Upcoming Film Festivals at UR and in Richmond 2024-2025. Hope you’ll attend a few!
Film Studies Events
Past Festivals-Events
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Tucker Boatwright Film Festival
During the 2023-2024 academic year, The University of Richmond Tucker Boatwright Festival of Literature & Arts was successfully hosted by the Film Studies interdisciplinary program. “Reimagining Community in Cinema” explored the diverse ways in which community is historically imagined and reimagined in documentary and fiction film from the silent era to the digital age. With experts in their fields who accepted our invitations, twelve campus events including symposia, masterclasses, film screenings, conversations with filmmakers honored the contributions of historically marginalized communities.
Film Screening: Maka
DIR. ELIA MOUTAMID, 2023, ITALY, 51 MIN.
Maka is a documentary about Geneviève Makaping, a Cameroonian-Italian anthropologist, writer and the first Black woman to be named the director of a newspaper in Italy. The film offers a detailed account of Makaping’s journey of migration from Cameroon across the desert and the ocean, her arrival in Italy in 1982 following the tragic death of her partner, her success as a journalist and television host, and her more recent relocation and current teaching job in Mantua. Maka explores how the perception of migration and race has changed since Makaping first came to Italy in the 1990s. Maka is a bold statement about what it means to be “other,” to be a woman, and particularly a Black woman, in Italy. A Q&A session with the director Elia Moutamid, moderated by UR’s Dr. Lidia Radi, followed the screening.
Presented through generous support by the UR School of Arts and Sciences; Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Office of International Education; and Italian Language & Culture Club.