Author and activist Daniela Gioseffi to host film screening at St. Francis College
St. Francis College will host Daniela Gioseffi for a screening and discussion of a documentary about her life, “Author and Activist: The Daniela Gioseffi Story,” Monday at 12:30 p.m. in the college’s Founders Hall.
Gioseffi was an adjunct professor at St. Francis College during the 1980s. This film follows her life and her fight for civil rights and climate justice.
“The Daniela Gioseffi Story” portrays a life-affirming struggle to make art of civil rights, democratic equality and climate justice, according to a release from the school. Produced and directed by Anton Evangelista, the docu-drama tells of the creative life of a multimedia artist, inspired by a tenacious immigrant father, to become an author who dares to integrate Deep South television in Selma during the era of the “Freedom Riders.” It shows Gioseffi’s father’s immigrant struggle to achieve the American Dream, and his hard labor to become a Phi Beta Kappa student and chemical engineer inventor of soft-light.