"Italian Americans and Federal
Hill" (
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"Italian Americans and Federal Hill" (Providence R.I.) tells the
largely untold story of Italian immigrants, the hardships they faced, and
their successful integration into American Society while preserving their
customs and traditions, and attempts to correct the inaccuracies perpetuated by
all the mob movies and their overwhelming negative Italian stereotypes.
Italian Americans and Federal Hill – The
Documentary - Advance review
Press World.Com
May 14, 2006
The story of Italian immigrants, the hardships they faced, and their successful
integration into American Society while preserving their customs and traditions
has been a story largely untold if at all.
Inaccuracies of Italo-American society, family and
history have been perpetuated by movies like 'The
Godfather'(Coppola'72),'The Untouchables'(DePalma'87), 'Goodfellas'(Scorsese'90),
'A Bronx Tale'(DeNiro'93), and 'Federal Hill' (Corrente'94).
While some stereotyping happens with all immigrants and nationalities, movies
like these fill the minds of children with absolute rubbish and label people
with Italian ancestry unfairly. Movies, plays, skits and even animated movies
like the hit "Sharktales" poke fun at
Italians as comic relief and stoop to give the bad guy an "Italian
hoodlum" feel.
By contrast, an upcoming documentary movie holds promise of a
different view and fill the huge void left by the
Filmed in Prov! idence,
September 2006 and is reportedly the result of a five year effort to document
the history and cultural evolution of Italian Americans in their neighborhood
and depicts a determined Italian immigrant population who prospered through
education, hard work and community involvement.
Aptly called "Italian Americans and Federal Hill", this film serves
up historical reality, nostalgia, traditions, food, family values and the
importance of education as related by Italo-Americans
themselves in their own words.
Featured speakers in the movie include Judge Frank Caprio,
Rev. Msgr. Galliano J. Cavallaro, Prof. John S.
Chiaro, Jr., former Mayor Vincent A. "Buddy" Cianci,
Jr., City Council President and former Mayor John J. Lombardi, Rev. Ramond P. Luft, former Italian
Vice Consul, Grande Ufficiale Joseph R. Muratore, former Mayor Joseph R. Paolino, Jr. (also former
United States Ambassador to!
Reportedly, even the soundtrack was recorded live and features traditional
Italian folk music (according to their publicist) a far cry from the music
usually associated with Italian stereotypes.
While filmed in the same neighborhood as Corrente's
movie, this film by producer Jon Ra
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