Thursday, November 30, 2017, 6pm. Pizza Shop: An Italian-American Dream (2017), 57 minutes. Antony Osso, dir. - John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10036. Post-screening discussion with the director led by Rocco Marinaccio, Manhattan College.

Pizza Shop features brothers Carmine (Charlie) and Fiore (Fred) Osso, who immigrated from Belmonte Calabro (Cosenza province) Calabria, in the mid-1960s. For more than forty years, they have run the successful Rudy's Ristorante & Pizzeria, a family-friendly eatery in Closter, New Jersey. Charlie is the serious and detail-oriented manager, while Fred is the jovial and passionate chef. Now in their seventies, they are facing relocation and the construction of a new restaurant. Director Antony Osso-Charlie's son-explores in this film the many ways a local business, established and nurtured by post-World War II immigrants, can serve as a hub for a community.