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Date: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 Hours: 6:30 PM Venue: IIC Organized by: IIC In collaboration with: Luce Cinecitta' and UC Santa Barbara On Italian National Unity and Armed Forces Day, the IIC commemorates WWI Centennial with the screening of Fango e Gloria (docufiction, 2014, 90') directed by Leonardo Tiberi. In Italian with English subtitl...

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  WTI Magazine #49    2014 December, 10Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Even if in the US it will be broadcasted in February, in Italy RAI has already aired the wonderful PBS documentary by John Maggio, "The Italian Americans". These are four fantastic hours of celebration of the Italian American experience, a must see that we highl...

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Giovedì 21 marzo 2013, ore 18.00 in EDT A conversation with:Guido Torlonia, director of the upcoming documentary Handmade Cinema, and the acclaimed plays Caro Luchino, and Caro Federico.Grazia d'Annunzio (US Special Projects Editor, Vogue Italia)Stefano Albertini, NYU The event will include the screening of selctions from the director's work...

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If you really want to add authenticity to your Sunday serving of macaroni, meatballs and gravy, a trip to Arthur Avenue in the Bronx will yield as many homemade Italian shopping opportunities as it always has.   On the other hand, finding the old Italian-American community among those businesses is more difficult, so Katonah filmmaker Dante...

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In celebration of Italian-American month, join filmmaker Marino Amoruso for his emotional and amusing documentary featuring some of the most prominent and famous Italian-Americans of the past half century as they reminisce with pride about their Italian roots, the "pillars" of Italian-American culture: family, food, work ethic, tradition, humility...

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by Ben Kenigsberg   "Natural Resistance" returns its director, Jonathan Nossiter, to the subject of his 2005 documentary, "Mondovino." That film examined the effects of globalization on the wine industry, a business that might seem like a haven of elitism and individuality — hardly a trade susceptible to homogenization.   Not so, that...

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Wednesday Nov. 4th at 7pm you're cordially invited to the screening of "Capodarco e i Giovani: Prima del Futuro" (Capodarco and the Youth: Before the Future), the new documentary by Luca Guardabascio.At Christmastime in 1966, a small group of thirteen people with disabilities and a young priest, Don Franco Monterubbianesi, decided to star...

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By Mauro Battocchi When it was presented to the public of the Mill Valley Fim Festival, Italy Love It Or Leave It by Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi struck a chord in the audience. Now the movie is available online for the American public here.   The movie, a "Docu-Trip" released in Italy three years ago, is a love letter to my country as wel...

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Italy, post-World War II, June 4, 1947, Casanova Straffora-a rural village in the province of Pavia. A 7 year-old Angela Volpini meets Mother Mary for the first time while she is playing on the hill with her friends.   The beautiful Lady tells Angela that she is "coming to teach the way to be happy in this world." This documentary describes...

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"Texan Italian Innovation," the latest episode of the Texan Italian Stories documentary series, has been released for free on the web through Youtube and Vimeo platforms.   The medium-length 26 minute documentary uses the event of the "IX Conference of Italian Researchers in the World" which happened in Houston, Texas in December, 2013, as t...

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