Bio

Rosa Barotsi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy) working on CineAF: Women's Films in Italy 1965-2015, a project on gender inequality in the Italian film industry. She trained at the University of Cambridge, where she received her Ph.D. in 2014. She has previously held a postdoctoral position at the ICI Berlin, where she developed a project on Slow cinema and debt. Along with Clio Nicastro and Saima Akhtar, she co-founded the In Front of the Factory: Cinematic Spaces of Labour research collective in 2016. She has published work that focuses on the intersections between film, gender and labour, with an emphasis on Greek and Italian cinema.

Project

I participate as the co-organizer in the project "The Purple Meridians", an international meeting with 16 female filmmakers from different countries (Catalonia, Kurdistan, Italy, Greece), to discuss the difficulties faced by professionals with a female identity and non-binary people in the film and audiovisual industry, to break down the borders they have encountered and to make proposals for improvement, creating a network of support and exchange for future collaborations on an axis that crosses that crosses whole of Europe, from its eastern to its western border.