On Nov. 18, the National Italian American Foundation was at the Philadelphia Media Forum, where along with WHYY, we hosted a special reception and screened clips from the upcoming four-hour documentary series, The Italian Americans, set to air nationally on PBS in February 2015. The documentary, narrated by acclaimed actor Stanley Tucci, r...
READ MORECasa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011 - DECEMBER 07, 2015. 06:00 PMScreening: 41 PARALLELO: New Animated Films from Naples. In collaboration with Napoli Film Festival. All the films are in ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles. CHELL' CA SENT [What I feel] (2015, Italy, 3 min.)....
READ MORETuesday, March 10, 2015, DOORS OPEN AT 6:00PM AND CLOSE PROMPTLY AT 6:30PM. Please Make a Reservation by March 10, 2015 at 2 PM. PHOTO ID REQUIRED LOCATION: Embassy of Italy - Auditorium. 3000 Whitehaven Street NW. Washington, DC 20008 The documentary-style Italian drama chronicles the rise and fall of Salvat...
READ MOREThe character "Alfredo" in the Oscar winning film "Cinema Paradiso" was inspired by a real-life Sicilian projectionist and photographer: Mimmo Pintacuda. His story is now a documentary which will be screened for the first time in London by CinemaItaliaUK this coming July: the UK Premiere will take place on Sunday 12th July 4pm at Genesis Cinema (Mi...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #28 2014 May, 1Author : Sandra Tornberg Translation by: On March 28 the Italian Heritage Society and the Federazione Abruzzese del Michigan (FADM) sponsored the Michigan première of the film La Mia Strada ("My Road"), a beautiful feature-length documentary by Michael Angelo DiLauro.
READ MOREWhen: Sat, September 24, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PMWhere: University of Detroit Mercy, 4001 West McNichols Road, Detroit, MI, United States DESCRIPTIONHosted by the Parducci Society, the documentary, Parducci the Man Who Made Detroit Beautiful, is the story of an Italian immigrant who becomes one of our country's...
READ MOREby Alessandra Matroianni Sculptors have been producing amazing artworks for millennia. We stare at them and admire the beauty of the shapes, feel the passion and the energy they emanate. But what's behind their creation? "Through the Eyes of the Sculptor", written and produced by Gina Minervini, tries to follow and reconstruct the...
READ MOREby Tony Binns Ronit Bezalel's thought-provoking documentary, 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green, is a starling case study into the making and destruction of one of Chicago's most infamous public housing projects. Heralded as a public housing success in the late 1940s, it garnered a reputation of also being one the most dangerous in the lat...
READ MOREThe Westchester Italian Cultural Center presents a very special screening with some extraordinary guests join us on Friday, May 16 for the presentation of Beyond Wiseguys the documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans transformed themselves from "outsiders"- stereotyped by the Hollywood establishment as mobsters - into industry insiders...
READ MOREOn the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2015, the Embassy of Italy with the Italian Cultural Institute and the Centro Primo Levi New York, will host an event with the welcoming remarks of H.E. Claudio Bisogniero, Ambassador of Italy to the United States, and the participation of Vadim Altskan (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)...
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