A study on transnational film co-productions, conducted by researchers and faculty at the University of the Republic of San Marino, was recently presented at the American University of Rome during the international conference "Innovations and Tensions: Italian Cinema and Media in a Global Context." The analysis was presented in the Italian capital by Elena D'Amelio, a film and media researcher and member of the staff of the University of San Marino's Research Center for International Relations, who illustrated the contents of a study conducted with the contribution of Karen Venturini, professor of the Design degree program at the University of San Marino.
The conference, in which the University of San Marino was a partner along with La Sapienza University of Rome, Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University, the U.S.-based Wellesley University, and the Dante Alighieri Association, "aimed at initiating a debate on post-national cinema by proposing Italy as a unifying geo-cultural space," explains D'Amelio, describing the initiative held on June 9th and 10th. "Some of the topics presented included seriality in fiction and the web, postcolonial intermediality, cinema and electronic arts, transnational identities, the great masters of Italian cinema, genre cinema, fashion, beauty, and celebrity. The conference also dedicated space to Italian-speaking directors, offering an academic reflection on diaspora cinema. For the University of San Marino, in addition to presenting the study, it was an opportunity to explore the possibility of future collaborations with the American University of Rome and with American professors and universities."