Great Opening for the Italian official delegation at American Film Market 2023 - Santa Monica
Great Opening today for the Italian official delegation at American Film Market 2023 - Santa Monica with Cappuccino with the Italians organized by the Italian Trade Agency Los Angeles Office in collaboration with the Italian Film Commission.An opportunity for the Italian Trade Commissioner in Los Angeles Alessandra Rainaldi to introduce the Italian...
Louis Prima: Rediscovering a Musical Icon at IAMLA
Louis Prima: Rediscovering a Musical Icon is a new exhibition produced by the IAMLA in collaboration with the Gia Maione Prima Foundation that explores the life and legacy of Louis Prima (1910 -1978), a skilled jazzman, prolific songwriter, and extraordinary performer. Prima’s music is omnipresent, from film and television to viral TikTok videos, D...
Gwen Stefani honored with star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Music icon and Orange County native Gwen Stefani was honored with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday. She was "Just a Girl" from O.C. who went on to become a music star around the world. Stefani is a multi-platinum recording artist with three Grammys. She has been making music now for more than 30 years. We first met her as part...
Italian prog-horror soundtrack masters Claudio Simonetti's Goblin return to the Castro
Best known for their haunting '70s soundtracks used in the films of gory giallo director Dario Argento, progressive-rock outfit Claudio Simonetti's Goblin provides the live score for the '80s Italian horror cult favorite Demons at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Oct. 27th. Initially working under the monikers Oliver and Cherry Five after bei...
A Green Mixtape: The Ecological Soul of Italian Music and Songwriting
October 20 | 6:30 PM. THE ECOLOGICAL SOUL OF ITALIAN MUSIC AND SONGWRITING. A live radio show presented by Italian scholar and Radio DJ Sara Marinelli. Italian Cultural Insititute San Francisco, 710 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA. Register here. Start your weekend off on the right beat! Join scholar and radio DJ Sara Marinelli as she takes us on a...
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY FALL 2023
The New York City-based Kairos Italy Theater along with the Italy-based KIT Italia and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU will present a special celebration of the 10th anniversary season of the In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, the festival of Italian theater taking place in all five boroughs of NYC, October 27-November 5. The festival Fall...
Embrace Italian Heritage Month With Little Italy’s Italian Heritage Concert Featuring Nick Palance
October is Italian-American Heritage & Culture Month and, boy, are we in need of something to celebrate! Thankfully, Little Italy is giving us a good reason to! Held in the Piazza della Famiglia, guests will be treated to a performance from the artist known as “The American Bocelli.” Soak in the ambiance of Little Italy’s beautiful central Piazza d...
Italian Cinema Celebrated at the Academy Museum
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, designed by Renzo Piano, celebrated Italian Cinema in collaboration with Cinecittà. Italy has won more Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film than any other country, with 14 wins. The program, which ran from September 6 to October 4, focused on Italian Cinema/Nuovo Cinema Italiano of the last five...
San Diego Italian Film Fest Offers Film Fans Cinema with an Italian Perspective
The San Diego Italian Film Festival returns Tuesday with in-person and online screenings of movies, many of which are making their San Diego debuts. This year’s fest, which runs through Oct. 14, will show films at the Museum of Photographic Arts and San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park, as well as La Paloma in Encinitas and Digital Gym at UC San...
Documentary: A.P. Giannini - Bank to the future
Monday, October 16 | 7 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM. Club Fugazi, 678 Green St #3, San Francisco. Directors Valentina Signorelli and Cecilia Zoppelletto present their latest documentary about Amadeo Peter Giannini, the son of Italian immigrants in San Francisco and founder of Bank of America, the man who revolutionized the world of finance by supporti...
Italian Opera in San Francisco, then & now
Saturday 10/14/2023. 10:15 am - 3:45 pm. Museo Italo Americano - 2 Marina Blvd, Building C - San Francisco, CA. Museo Italo Americano & Leonardo Da Vinci Society. In collaboration with Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco present ITALIAN OPERA in SAN FRANCISCO, THEN & NOW. A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM. RSVP By October 8, 2023 San Francisco was an “op...
Italian Film Festival of Marin County
Originally started as an informal, one-time only presentation of Italian movies in a college lecture hall, the Italian Film Festival of Marin County has grown over its 46 years into a perennial favorite in the San Francisco Bay Area. From the beginning it has been a labor of love for its longtime director, Lido Cantarutti. Under his direction the p...