Simonetta d'Italia Wiener
Simonetta d'Italia Wiener is a professor of Italian language, literature, and film at St. Francis College in New York City and co-director of the Study Abroad Program at the School of Visual Arts. She has curated a number of film events at the School of Visual Arts and for the Crossroads Cultural Center, and she was the Artistic Director of the Meeting Rimini Film Festival for eight years. She has been a production consultant for short films and she recently founded a film production company, Camino Productions NYC, LLC.
In 2015–2016, she co-directed and co-produced with Giovanni Morricone the award-winning documentary, “The Awakened Heart.”
In 2019, She directed and produced the award-winning documentary Unguarded. The documentary chronicles APAC’s (Association for the Protection and Assistance of Convicts) revolutionary method for prison system transformation that’s centered on the full recovery and rehabilitation of the person.
