In 2019 I attended and ran Master Classes on "Micro Budget Filmmaking" at Hasanuddin University, Makassar. I also ran these classes at the Festival Sinema Australia, hosted by Ruang Film Bandung. I did this in the executive role I was appointed to as Deakin University's Associate Head of School, Partnerships international (SCCA).
Here I am (L-R) with Carolyn Williams, Sharon Weltman, David Mayer, Elisa Uffreduzzzi, Vito Adriaensens at the Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava, Venice, was a great setting for the
As a graduate student at UCLA in the 1990s, I won 2 years of PhD research in the BnF to undertake research on Sarah Bernhardt and early film. At that time (1997-1999), there were few people (well, no one) researching silent film in the libraries of Paris. I recall being allowed to photocopy just 10 pages a day at the...
Screening the stage: Actresses and acting in France from Theatre to Silent Cinema
This was my first time to mainland China (as a Hong Kong resident, I never actually visited China pre 1997....). AND it was the first time the Women and Silent Screen conference made it to Asia. I am so proud of this- on the heels of the Melbourne iteration of the conference that I organised and hosted, I was able...
In 2017 I won a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment from the University of Texas at Austin.
Stephanie Alexander (left) and Virginia , speaking on the panel 'Feminist Forum'
Professor Jill Matthews, ANU, writing fort the Women and Film History International Network
I first visited Bologna as a non-Italian speaking tourist in 1992. I was subsequently based there for many years, first attending Cinema Ritrovato when it was still a relatively small event in 1993. When by 2005 I both spoke Italian and proposed a program including Sarah Bernhardt to Gian Luca Farinelli, I was not sure he would agree to...