Are you the next Fellini? Are you a video-maker or director in love with Italy and the Italian-American culture? Do you want to showcase your work at the heart of NY's Little Italy? We are preparing our August-December 2014 Calendar, and we are looking for independent and opinionated artists, who want to showcase their work! We need videos...
READ MORENovember 14, 7:00 pm — 8:30 pm. Westchester Italian Cultural Center - One Generoso Pope Place - Tuckahoe , NY 10707 United States. Produced by Carlo Magaletti with the assistance and financial support, in part, by the United Pugliesi Federation and the Society of Maria SS del Buoncammino di Altamura. Premiere scree...
READ MOREThe Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University is pleased to invite you to the Spring 2016 Inserra Chair calendar of cultural programs and educational initiatives in Italian and Italian American Studies. The calendar includes round tables, exhibits, as well as contests and international projects for students...
READ MOREOn Jan. 20, the North End Historical Society presented its long-awaited documentary "Boston's North End: An Italian American Story" at Suffolk University's Modern Theatre. It was mostly filmed and directed by Maureen McNamara of Kendall Productions in Cambridge, with post-production editing done John Balcom of John Balcom Productions in Los Angeles...
READ MOREScreening and discussion of the Italian Americans and WHMT upstate ItaliansThursday, februrary 12 - 7 pm at the Italian American Community Center 257 Washington Avenue extension - Albany, NY WMHT's UPSTATE ITALIANS FEATURES:- JAMES J. BARBA, PRESIDENT AND CEO, Albany Medical Center - ANTONIO CIVITELLA, PRESIDENT AND CEO, TRANSF...
READ MOREItalian cycling legend Gino Bartali secretly helped save Jews from Nazi persecution by transporting fake identification papers and messages in his bicycle frame as he trained for the Tour de France. Other Italians, including Roman Catholic priests, are also among the silent heroes who helped protect Jews who were living or seeking refuge in Italy d...
READ MOREBy Pasquale Gianni Award winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, in his newly released project, Where to Invade Next, investigated social standards in other advanced industrialized nations to see how we can emulate them to build a better society in the United States. Other than the obvious Scandinavian countries, Moore travel...
READ MORELa musica è da sempre protagonista importante dello scambio culturale tra Italia e Stati Uniti: ha avuto un ruolo fondamentale nel tenere alta la bandiera degli italiani emigrati all'inizio dello scorso secolo, ed è stata veicolo dell'entusiasmo e dell'ottimismo americano che ha contagiato l'Italia dopo la guerra. Nessuno potrebbe descrivere questa...
READ MOREMen of the Cloth, an inspiring documentary by director/producer Vicki Vasilopoulos, will be making its Main Line debut this summer at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute. Shot over the course of eleven years, the film follows three Italian master tailors over the past, present, and future of their craft. The documentary premiered to audiences at...
READ MORE"This excellent film fills a real gap in our understanding of the complexity of the Italian immigration experience," says Carol McKibben, a historian at Stanford University, of our film, "Finding the Mother Lode: Italian Immigrants in California". In it, we explore how Italian immigrants to California found economic success and social acce...
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