Female Trailblazers

For The Litas, an all women motorcycle group, a bike embodies the freedom to be themselves on and off the road. They individually and collectively find the confidence to pursue their passions in fields where Italian women do not traditionally have a seat at the table.

A portrait of world-famous female conductor Speranza Scappucci as she returns to her hometown of Rome to conduct the Bellini opera "La Sonnambula."

In Celestial, American-born director and technologist Eliza McNitt prepares her record-breaking VR installation, 'Spheres,' for a new audience: her grandparents. She reflects on the teachings her scientist grandfather gave her as a young child, which ultimately spurred her tireless pursuit in the emerging field of virtual reality.

In The 4th Wave, Italian-born rapper Alessandra Prete, or 'Priestess,' prepares to break into the American rap scene, utilizing the internet to spread her sound around the world. She reflects on the people who have inspired her artistically: iconic female figures in history and her grandmother, who encouraged her to reach as far beyond her hometown as possible.

Never one to fit into a traditionalist mold, Ezinma has taken her classical violinist training and transformed it into a fresh and intersectional genre of her own. Ezinma is truly a self-made artist and woman of our times, pushing the envelope, giving back to communities that are not encouraged to study classical music. Follow Ezinma as she records and releases a record, and witness her magic.

Lot 448 follows art detective, Lynda Albertson, on a quest to recover a rare Etruscan antefix. As a young child, Albertson craved relics that represented her father's heritage, which ignited her passion to protect humanity's most important art and cultural antiquities. The film follows her in a race against time to stop the auction and return the antefix to Italy, its rightful home.