IHCC-NY FEATURES FELLINI 100!

IHCC-NY FEATURES FELLINI 100! 
In the one-hundredth anniversary year of Federico Fellini’s birth, the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Inc. (IHCC-NY, Inc.) will present a series of online discussions about Fellini and his films, facts, and fantasy. The series will highlight Fellini—the man and his legacy—
including clips from some of his most famous films: La Strada, Le Notti di Cabiria, I Vitelloni, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and Amarcord.
 
Federico Fellini, Italian screenwriter and director of numerous iconic films, was nominated for many Academy Awards, winning four for Best Foreign Language Film and the Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He also won prestigious awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, and he received The Film Society of Lincoln Center Award for Cinematic Achievement. Fellini was awarded the honor of Cavaliere di Gran Croce in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
 
From September 30 through November 4, the weekly Fellini Series will include a number of experts: Richard Peña, Professor of Film Studies at Columbia University; Gianfranco Angelucci, screenwriter, author, and Fellini collaborator; Mauro Aprile Zanetti, historian and author; Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Professor of Italian and Visual Studies; Eugenia Paulicelli, CUNY Professor of Italian and Fashion Studies; Paolo Ceratto, author and son of Caterina Boratto, actress in three Fellini films; and others. 
 
Fellini’s screenplays drew on his childhood memories, experiences, dreams, and fantasy, which in later years portrayed extravagant, baroque images. Giulietta Masina, his wife, starred in several of his celebrated films. His films also became noted for their set designs, costumes, and for Nino Rota’s signature music. His filmography is so unique, it gave birth to the term Felliniesque and the word paparazzo. 
 
The IHCC-NY, Inc., film series is a collaborative program with the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, CUNY, and the Società Dante Alighieri NYC.
 
For more information about the series, contact: Nancy Indelicato, chair of public relations, Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of NY, Inc. at naindel@hotmail.com. 
 
 
Lecture 
 
Wednesday, October 28, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Giorgio Bertellini
“Novel and Arguable: Fellini in America up to La Dolce Vita”
 
Giorgio Bertellini currently works at the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. Editor of The Cinema of Italy (2004; 2007) and co-editor (with Richard Abel and Rob King) of The Nation/National in Early Cinema(2008), he is the author of Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque (Indiana UP, 2010), winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Award and of the Robert K. Martin Prize for Best Book sponsored by the Canadian Association of American Studies. He is also the author of a monograph (available in Italian, English, and Romanian) on Sarajevo-born director Emir Kusturica. His latest book is The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America (UC Press, 2019).
 
Host, Rosa Casiello O’day
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