Bells & Icons: A Gathering of Catholic Filmmakers

William Price, III tells stories through film and digital media. He has collaborated professionally with Grammy-winning bands non-profits, startups, and healthcare companies. In his personal work, this award-winning filmmaker reflects a darkly tinged spirituality that aches for transcendence and embraces the brutal tension between beauty and suffering; this spirit informs his efforts as a screenwriter, director, actor and creative director — forming pieces through him that often orbit questions of identity, relationship, terror, and hope for mercy. Claire McKenna, William’s most recent narrative film, commissioned by the 8beats Movie project, has been enjoyed and awarded at festivals around the world. 

Matthew Clemente is the Director of Academics & Operations at Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics and an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Formative Education at Boston College.

Sofia Rietti is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at Boston College. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Colgate University and an M.A. in Mental Health Counseling from Boston College. Her work sits at the intersection of philosophy and clinical practice, drawing on feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, and phenomenological ethics to explore ethical and existential dimensions of mental health care. Through her research, she hopes to deepen philosophical understandings of suffering, embodiment, and relationality while bringing critical insights from therapeutic practice into conversation with contemporary philosophical thought.