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The docu-film A.P. Giannini: Bank To The Future directed by Valentina Signorelli and Cecilia Zoppelletto, produced by Daitona and Preston Witman Productions, continues to shine on the international stage, taking home the Best International Documentary award at the Tennessee International Indie Film Festival (TIIFF). This prestigious accolade highli...

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The long awaited documentary about the coolest, hippest, Radio Hall of Famer – the late, great Dick Biondi – will receive a special viewing Thursday, Nov. 14. The film screening and fundraiser starts at 6 p.m. at the Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th St., Chicago. Proceeds from the screening will go toward putting the final touches on the film bef...

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Despite his international renown, we know terribly little about Leonardo da Vinci. Aside from a couple of Florentine court records about a dropped sodomy accusation, and — of course — his own notebooks, his name survives primarily through his work, his idiosyncratic drawings, paintings, and blueprints. Idiosyncratic, for while da Vinci apprenticed...

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On Veterans Day, November 11, Franklin County Visitors Bureau (15 South Main Street, Chambersburg, PA) will host two special showings of “Fedeltà. Soldier. Prisoner," the Stephen Mancini Productions documentary of repatriated Italian POWs housed at Letterkenny Depot during World War II. “Fedeltà. Soldier. Prisoner" will be shown following the Chamb...

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On Oct. 24, Mercury Studios and Fathom premiered iconic Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli’s concert film, Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration. Sofia Carson joined Bocelli on the red carpet at Regal Essex Crossing. The film, which chronicles Bocelli’s three-day July concert event in Italy honoring his 30th anniversary in music, is set to be released in U....

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In the world of sport there is constant debate over who qualifies as the Greatest of All Time. In basketball, is it Jordan or LeBron? In soccer, Messi or Maradona? In Formula 1 racing, Lewis Hamilton or Ayrton Senna? In the world of glassblowing, however, there is no debate. The GOAT title unquestionably goes to an amiable Italian by the name of Li...

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“Marcello Mastroianni was known, all around the world, as the Latin lover, the Italian seducer, especially after he starred in La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini’s masterpiece,” says Fabrizio Corallo, the director of the new documentary Ciao Marcello, Mastroianni l’antidivo.  “Mastroianni did not like this image. He didn’t want to be seen as an icon,...

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Dear friends, We the Italians is spending October, the Italian Heritage Month, back and forth between New York, Rome and Washington DC. This is the busiest month of the year for us, and for several friends in the Italian American community. October began with a very special moment for me. As you may know, I have the honor of being the representativ...

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Now an honorary citizen of Polizzi Generosa, already an Italian citizen since 2018, Martin Scorsese in the town of his Sicilian ancestors, looking out from the enchanting belvedere of the Holy Trinity, wonders what must have prompted the 19-year-old Francesco Paolo Scozzese (surname mispronounced in the U.S. as Scorsese), who would become his grand...

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During World War II, some 600,000 Italians in America found their freedoms restricted by the U.S. government. The Italian Cultural Society of LBI invites the public to view the sobering cinematic account of their ordeal, “Potentially Dangerous,” at the Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County Library in Surf City (NJ) on Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 2...

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