Vincent Schiavelli, the subject of this film, was born in Bushwick, Brooklyn and raised by his grandparents, immigrants from the town of Polizzi Generosa (Palermo…

Odyssey in Rome documents director Abel Ferrara’s attempt to finance and produce his film Mary (2005), a modern re-imagining of the life of Mary Magdalene…

Chippers tells the story of Dublin’s well-established community of four thousand Italians, all coming from Casalattico in Lazio, who have owned fish and chip shops…

Hava Volterra of Los Angeles tries to come to terms with her father’s death by traveling to Italy, the land of his birth, to trace…

Sirio Maccioni came to America as a waiter on a cruise ship. He rose through the ranks of New York’s finest restaurants and opened Le…

In this film exploring the transnational aspects of the Neapolitan song, director Paolo Santoni journeys between Naples and New York profiling singers and songs both…

Third-generation Italian Americans Angie and Tara Pontani and “adopted sister” Helen Burkett began dancing together professionally during the late 1990s. As The World Famous Pontani…

Merica investigates the complexities of migration and the migrant’s desire for national belonging using the parallel stories of Italian immigration to Brazil in the 1800s…

In the years following World War II, the city of Trieste was under the control of the Anglo-American Allied Military Government as both the Italian…

These two films look at post-World War II Italian immigration to Montreal and the ways in which it is remembered. Ho fatto il mio coraggio…

In a journey through Southern Italy, Italian American David Marker explores the zampogna, a Southern Italian bagpipe historically considered a shepherd’s instrument. Traditionally made by…

Gloucester, Massachusetts, is home to over 6,000 residents of Sicilian origin, many of them from the town of Terrasini, near Palermo. In Altro Mare looks…