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BEYOND WISEGUYS: ITALIAN AMERICANS & THE MOVIES

Film screening

Where

The 5^th Annual Big Apple Film Festival, Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick Street, NYC.

When

Friday, November 21^st, 8:15 p.m.

 Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies

Executive Produced by John Turturro and narrated by Paul Borghese (BAFF Board of Directors), the film uses interviews with well-known contemporary filmmakers to show how Italian Americans transformed themselves from "outsiders" – stereotyped by the Hollywood establishment – into a creative force to be reckoned with. The film also explores the prevailing gangster stereotypes from the silent era, the advent of the "talkies," groundbreaking films like "The Godfather" and the TV series "The Sopranos". The documentary is illustrated with film clips, stills and family photos – many supplied by the interviewees themselves – including Chazz Palminteri, Marisa Tomei, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, Spike Lee, Jack Valenti, David Chase, Ben Gazzara, Isabella Rossellini and others.

Executive Producers John Turturro   Rosanne De Luca Braun  

Producers Steven Fischler  Joel Sucher  Rosanne De Luca Braun and Paul Borghese Writer Joel Sucher   Narrator Paul Borghese  

Editors David Lindblom Anders Bramsen Katsumi Funahashi  Original music Lisa Nardi

Directed by  Steven Fischler

Following The Screening: Q & A

Following the screening, a discussion will examine the impact of stereotyping on independent filmmakers and on the Hollywood studio system, as well as on the views and perspectives of society at large.  The discussion will examine whether or not stereotypes still exist in today's films, and how they have evolved both in the U.S. and abroad.  Featured panelists scheduled to appear include Oscar nominated writer/director Richard La Gravanese (The Fisher King, P.S. I Love You, Freedom Writers), filmmaker/historian Antonio Monda, author Fred Gardaphe, director Steven Fischler and producers Rosanne DeLuca Braun and Paul Borghese.

Tickets Available For Purchase On-Line At WWW.BIGAPPLEFILMFESTIVAL.COM, and thereafter, in cash,

at the Tribeca Cinemas.

(email: info@bigapplefilmfestival.com)

then... THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20th, 2008

9:45 pm

Tribeca Cinemas

Big Apple Film Festival

Screening of the Feature Film

"Lynch Mob"

Starring TONY DARROW and PAUL BORGHESE

Executive produced by PAUL BORGHESE

Life imitating art, or art imitating life, that is the question!

Come see the movie Christopher on the Sopranos was trying to make.  "GoodFellas meets night of the Living Dead"!

- Scream Magazine

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