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New Jersey filmmaker Frank Gigante and Enrico Muzzi are teaming up to film "The Other Side," an independent project produced by Gigante's company My Way Produzioni. The film examines racial stereotypes and how prejudices are formed, with a focus on the Italian-American culture.   "The Other Side" features many New Jersey locations such as Va...

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By Madeline Bilis   The North End has a lot more to show for itself than amazing cannolis, which is why the North End Historical Society decided to produce a documentary about the neighborhood's longtime residents: Italian Americans.   After five years of working on Boston's North End: An Italian American Story, the new documentary is...

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February 8 @ 6:45 pm - 8:45 pm. Event will take place in University Hall 7th Floor Conference Center. Registration required. To RSVP, visit the organizer website.   oin us for a conversation with documentary filmmakers. This round table will explore issues related to Italian immigration to the United States, yesterday's as well as today's. A...

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Italian American Cinema: From Capra to the Coppolas, an original, documentary exhibit by the Museo Italo Americano, written by Joseph McBride, will be on exhibit at the Museo from September 18, 2015 through March 6, 2016. The American cinema, from its inception, has played a major role in shaping our perceptions of our country and ourselves, a...

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"Paesani: The Story of Italian Culture in Northeastern Pennsylvania" chronicles the massive immigration of more than 4 million Italians to the United States between 1890 and 1930, and the enduring culture these people imbued into northeastern Pennsylvania society.witf will air "Paesani: The Story of Italian Culture in Northeastern Pennsylvania" on...

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"Soulful Sicilian Cooking": è il tema dell'appuntamento che si terrà il 20 dicembre alle 18.00 all'Italian American Museum, New York. Protagonista di una serata tutta all'insegna della cucina siciliana sarà Antoinette Silicato, che presenterà il suo nuovo libro. Nel volume, Antoinette Silicato presenta sessanta ricette autentiche della tradizione...

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By Paul Grondahl   It has taken more than 50 years, but the silently displaced South End residents pushed out of their homes, businesses and tight-knit Italian-American enclave by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's South Mall government complex are finally having the last word.   "I wanted to give voice to the voiceless," said Mary Paley, t...

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Like many Italian Americans in Cleveland's east-side suburbs, Mayor Joseph Cicero and his family landed in Lyndhurst by way of Mayfield Road, leading from Little Italy.   Cicero reminisces about the Sicilian culture that helped shape him in an Ideastream documentary, tied to a four-hour series called The Italian Americans by WETA in Washingt...

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Sarà proiettato all'Italian American Museum il 21 novembre Where her Feet Stood (Dove Posarono i Suoi Piedi), film documentario di Luca Guardabascio.Il 4 giugno 1947 a Casanova Staffora, villaggio rurale della provincia di Pavia, Angela Volpini (7 anni) incontra una signora mentre si trovava su una collina con suoi amici. La bella signora dice ad A...

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by Valeria Fanelli    There are presently 1,000,000 young people who were born in Italy, speak Italian fluently, have studied in Italian schools and have lived in Italy all their lives, yet, they are not entitled to Italian citizenship.   The Italian Cultural Institute will bring attention to this controversial topic by showing a...

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