The Italian American Think Tank
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Ciao, Sesame Street! (2019), 38 minutes John Peter Didato, dir. Over Sesame Street’s fifty-year history, Italian American performers, writers, camera operators, and producers have contributed…
Pete L. Ferraro, dir. Pete Ferraro’s documentary film Il Messaggero tells the fascinating story of his father Pietro Ferraro, an immigrant from San Pietro in…
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6pm Potentially Dangerous: When It Was a Crime to Be Italian (2021), 50 minutes Zach Baliva, dir. Potentially Dangerous presents the…
Thursday, December 7, 2023, 6pm Oltre i bordi/Beyond the Frame (2023), 41 minutes Simone Brioni and Matteo Sandrini, dirs. Stony Brook University professor Simone Brioni…
We’ll be screening two films featuring friends Roberto Serrini and Peter Boggia as they explore Italian cuisine. Winner of dozens of film festivals, including two…
Stonebreakers chronicles the conflicts about monuments that arose in the United States during the George Floyd protests and the 2020 presidential election. Weaving together observational…
Il mondo è troppo per me: La storia di Vittorio Camardese (2023), 63 minutes Vania Cauzillo, dir. This film tells the story of Vittorio Camardese,…
This documentary journeys across four generations of an Italian American family as they uncover and begin to share their experiences of sexual trauma. Stirring home…
In Summer Within, a gender-fluid artist and performer from Staten Island struggles to belong in her Italian American family. With her beloved immigrant grandmother’s dementia…
Fedeltà: Soldati. Prigionieri. chronicles the experiences of Italian prisoners of war (POWs), mostly captured in North Africa and Sicily, who are sent to Letterkenny Army…
The Piccirilli Factor is a feature-length documentary exploring the legacy of the Piccirilli Brothers, Italian American sculptors who significantly contributed to shaping New York City’s…
Marcella Hazan changed the ways we cook and experience Italian food. A disabled woman, trained in natural sciences and biology, Hazan never cooked until she…