Lucia Mauro
Writer-Director Lucia Mauro is the co-founder with her husband-producer Joe Orlandino of In My Brother’s Shoes, Inc., their Chicago-based non-profit film organization dedicated to creating original narrative films and documentaries about healing, resilience, human connection, inspiring historic figures and vital contemporary issues. The husband-and-wife team are second-generation Italian Americans committed to telling empowering stories that make a difference. https://www.inmybrothersshoes.org/
IT and US: New documentary honors victims of little-known massacre against Italian immigrants in the American West
In a desolate valley outside Eureka, Nevada, lies the common grave where five Italian charcoal burners were shot dead in 1879 by a sheriff’s posse while striking for better wages on the burgeoning mining frontier. Their names were Giovanni Pedroni, Marcellus Locatelli, Teodoro Zesta, Pompeo Pattini, Antonio Canonica. Yet, for well over a century, t...