Viewing Puglia through Films: A New York Festival Block Notes – A History of Pugliesi In New York

Directed by Mimmo Mongelli. With: John Mustaro, Nick Spano, Mike Spano, Antonio Rutigliano, James Mitarotonda, Maria Galetta.

Production: Levante International Film Festival Year 2023.

Duration: 30 minutes.

The documentary features interviews with Apulian emigrants or descendants of Apulian emigrants in the Big Apple. Prominent figures are interviewed, some relating to families from the first wave of Italian immigration of the 1890s, others to those of the 1960s, and finally one of recent immigration, from that generation that has chosen for professional and cultural reasons to settle in New York. In Italian.

Sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

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Admission: Open to the public

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