By Carol Bicak

All for the love of St. Lucy.

After countless hours of filming, three years of work and endless fundraising, the documentary "Devoti" will have its world premiere Friday night in Joslyn Art Museum's Witherspoon Concert Hall.

It started as a simple video about the cannoli-eating contest at Omaha's Santa Lucia Festival. But planners Mike DiGiacomo and Jen Mandolfo Carey, who grew up in Omaha's Little Italy, and videographer Pete Soby realized they had a bigger story to tell — one about the hundreds of families who left Carlentini, Sicily, to settle in Omaha, bringing their cultural traditions with them.

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