Gianfranco Rosi’s 2016 Italian documentary film, which highlights the harsh realities of the migrant crisis in Lampedusa, will compete against the 4 other nominations in its category at the 89th Academy Awards on February 26.
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On Sept. 29, 2016, the Columbia Journalism School screened "Inside Charlie Hebdo," a documentary based on the Feb. 2006 newsroom discussion before the publishing of the famous caricature of Prophet Mohammed
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A scene of Fuocoammare by Gianfranco RosiFuocoammare or Fire at Sea, by Gianfranco Rosi, has been officially announced as a nominee for the upcoming Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film in February 2017. This documentary is a close look into the harsh reality of the European Refugee Crisis on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”. This is how “Children know” begins, with the lines from Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince. The documentary by Walter Veltroni was presented in New York on Wednesday June 3rd at NYU’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò.
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Robert De Niro’s new documentary, “Remembering the Artist Robert De Niro, Sr.,” was presented at the Rome International Film Festival on November 17, 2014
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One of the most influential Italian film directors of our times speaks about his cinema, his vision of life, and his life when he is not working.
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Gianfranco Norelli and Suma Kurien presented their new documentary, “Finding the Mother Lode: Italian Immigrants in California,” at the Calandra Italian American Institute of New York
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The Longest Journey: the deportation of the Jews of Rhodes, by filmmaker Ruggero Gabbai and based on research conducted by Liliana Picciotto and Marcello Pezzetti, is a documentary that weaves together testimonies of three Jews who have survived Auschwitz – Stella Levi, Sami Modiano and Albert Israel. The film was presented at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo in collaboration with the Primo Levi Center as part of the program dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Produced by Awen Films, an independent documentary film production company based in New York City, Treasure - The Story of Marcus Hook examines the efforts of a town that is determined to survive the shutdown of the local oil refinery. This is what young filmmaker Valerio Ciriaci has done in his most recent short documentary film
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Interviewing professors, lawyers, therapists as well as ex-abusers, this documentary project aims to pose questions and propose answers about one of the worst sores of this society
