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The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and acclaimed Italian producer Aurelio De Laurentiis are now accepting applications for the inaugural NIAF/De Laurentiis Film Prizes. Established in 2023, this annual grant program provides critical funding and mentorship opportunities to emerging filmmakers looking to tell compelling stories about It...

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The 2024 Italian American Baseball Foundation scholarship application is officially open! These scholarships are for Italian Americans and Italian natives looking to play college baseball or softball. Educational opportunity through baseball and Italian heritage is at the forefront of our IABF mission. The Italian American Baseball Foundation award...

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Salvatore J. LaGumina, Professor Emeritus of History and Director of the Center for Italian American Studies at Nassau Community College, award-winning author of over 20 books and more than a hundred of scholarly articles on the experience of Italian immigrants in the United States, and beloved husband, father, and grandfather, passed away on Sunda...

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I’m not a fan of fast cars but the new Ferrari movie, released on Christmas Day 2023, had my heart racing. This new biopic by director/producer Michael Mann tells the story of Enzo Ferrari, a legend in motor racing and the manufacturing of luxury cars. His life wasn’t an easy ride, however, because his passions were split between three lovers: his...

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The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is pleased to announce Friuli Venezia Giulia as its designated Region of Honor for 2024. This picturesque area in northeastern Italy borders Austria, Slovenia and the Adriatic Sea and is renowned for its stunning Alpine landscape, seaports, medieval villages, prosciutto di San Daniele, Montasio cheese...

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Italian American organizations from around the country are heeding the call championed by COPOMIAO President Basil M. Russo: by uniting together, the Conference of Presidents, in part, commands the respect and international recognition that's oftentimes impossible to achieve on an individual basis. In the past two years alone, COPOMIAO leaders have...

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Raffa depicts the life and career of Raffaella Carrà, an Italian popstar and TV personality, as told via the words of those who knew her and archival footage. The film reconstructs the public and private life of an uncompromising, ambitious, determined self-made woman who never wanted to reveal too much about herself. It does this by using archive...

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Chef Massimo Bottura will be the protagonist of two episodes - those of January 5 and 12 - of the American television series Dream of Italy. The program-which boasts more than sixty million viewers-is to dedicate the two episodes in question to the city of Modena and more generally to the Food Valley of Emilia Romagna: Massimo Bottura, in this cont...

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As already reported in detail, in 2024, the Frecce Tricolori display team will visit U.S. and Canada for the first North American tour in more than 30 years. The tour will bring the Italian Air Force jets to Canada, where RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force) celebrates its 100th anniversary and then over the U.S, attending airshows on both the East and...

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ISDA Financial Life total member assets have eclipsed $381M, with millions more on the way from the fourth quarter of 2023. ISDA National President Basil M. Russo, National Controller Joann Blackwell, Sales Manager Jim Laick and ISDA Investment Manager Nick DePersis (along with Nick’s father, Ed) have elevated ISDA to a world-class organization, wh...

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Batman has teamed up with a variety of characters throughout his 80-year history, but one famous paranormal investigator has remained elusive… until now. The Italian comics hero Dylan Dog will be teaming with the Dark Knight this coming March, finally bringing the two celebrated comics characters together after first being announced nearly six year...

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“It ain’t about how hard you hit… It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward” is the famous and iconic line from Rocky. It’s so ubiquitous the line even made a resurgence during the TikTok and Instagram era as the backing voiceover that’s laid over inspirational videos of wannabe entrepreneurial types and fitness influencers taking...

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