Tina Fallani Benaim has been teaching Italian Cinema since 1992. In addition to SRISA she teaches at Georgetown University and Syracuse University. In 1981 she finished Film School in Milan, Italy with a degree in Cinema and Television specializing in Film and Video Editing. For many years she worked in the US as a film and sound editor on feature films including THE DEAD POET SOCIETY, THE GODFATHER part 3, THE GODFATHER TRILOGY, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, THE SECRET GARDEN, and many others. Tina Fallani moved back to Florence in 1992 after living in the U.S. for 7 years.