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Senior Lecturer (Film & Television Studies)

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3060
Email : E.Colusso@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Media, Culture and Language
Office location : Jubilee M1B

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Qualifications

MA

Research Interests

Research interests include documentary filmaking:
representing reality through the camera; Visual anthropology: cross-cultural communication and representation, ethno-psychiatry, North/South dynamics, participatory development, women issues, urban anthropology.

Teaching Interests

Ms Colusso teaches on a number of modules on the Film Study and Screen Practise programme.

Publications

2003 (Chapter) "La documentazione di uno sguardo" in 
L'idea documentaria - Altri sguardi dal cinema italiano (The 
documentary idea - other perspectives from Italian 
Cinema), edited by Marco Bertozzi, Turin LINDAU. A 
collection of essays from Italian authors and theoreticians 
on Italian Documentary Filmaking.
2007 (sole author, Writer, director and D.o.P.) ABC 
Colombia, a 90min. documentary film set in a rural one- 
classroom primary school in Colombia. An intimate portrait 
of a small rural community in a part of Colombia entirely 
controlled by paramilitary forces, rendered through the eyes 
of the children who grow up there, and are often forced into 
very difficult choices. A co-production between the Italian 
GA&A and the French “Les film d’ici” for Arté Grand Format, 
Channel4, Yle TV (Finaland) and ITVS (U.S.A.). ABC Colombia 
will be also airing on a new PBS channel called World.

2003 (co-author) "Scusi, dov'é il documentario?" (Excuse 

me, do you know where documentary is?) a 20min. 
provocative documentary on the present situation of Italian 
documentary realized as a collective work by four Italian 
authors. Produced by Doc.it it was presented at Venice Film 
festival in conjunction with the presentation of "L'idea 
documentaria".

2002 (sole author, Director and D.o.P.) Umberto Eco, 

Renaissance man, a 30min. documentary portrait on the 
Italian world acclaimed writer for BBC4 "Profiles"

2001 (sole author, Writer, Director and D.o.P.) No risk no 

champagne , a 90min. documentary on women trafficking 
from Eastern Europe produced by Fandango for RAI2. 
Special Mention Festival dei Popoli, Florence 2002 

2001 (3 episodes, Director and D.o.P.) Hidden Tuscany, a 

3x50min. tv series prod. by Crimsons Films for Channel4. 
Series director R. Williams.

1995 (sole author, Director and D.o.P.) Fine Pena Mai - Life 

after Life , a 90min. 16mm colour documentary about four 
inmates sentenced to life imprisonment in the island prison 
of Porto Azzurro (Elba). Co-produced by the N.F.T.S. and 
Metafilm (Italy) in collaboration with RAI 3. Best Director 
Award at the Sulmona Cinema Giovani Festival 1995, Best 
Film Award at San Benedetto del Tronto 1997. "Fine Pena 
Mai" was released twice on RAI3 in ´95 and '96 and on SBS 
Australia in 1996.
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