Emmy-nominated, award winning, husband and wife, social justice filmmakers, Marylou & Jerome Bongiorno, preview four of their short fiction films, inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s acclaimed Illuminations poems. The stories depict the fragile relationship between: actors struggling with love and ambition, the ghosts of General Giuseppe Garibaldi and inventor Antonio Meucci debating “Why do we fight?”, glass artisans grappling with trauma, and an adoptee and a Benedictine nun unraveling a dangerous past and present plans to return to Ghana.
The films feature actors who are alumni of NYU Tisch Grad Acting, Yale School of Drama, and The Juilliard School. Special Guests will discuss the films with the filmmakers and audience.
Featuring:
ANGUISH, with Sean Patrick Higgins and Anna Tullis
HEARING VOICES, with Tony Manna and Tim Nicolai
GLASS WORKS, with Annie Fox and Malcolm Morano
MOTHERLAND, with Fikile M Kani and Rachel Black Spaulding
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HEARING VOICES
Emmy-nominated and Award-winning filmmakers Marylou & Jerome Bongiorno
have released Hearing Voices (22-minute fictional film) on DVD.
It’s the story of inventor Antonio Meucci and General Giuseppe Garibaldi reuniting
as ghosts at the home they shared in the 1850s in Staten Island, NY. The two hash
out their respective legacies of the invention of the telephone and Italian Unifica-
tion while debating a bigger question: why do we fight?
Hearing Voices was filmed at the very house Meucci and Garibaldi shared (now the
Garibaldi-Meucci Museum). It was produced with the support of the Francesco
and Mary Giambelli Foundation, Inc., the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, and the Staten
Island Foundation. The film stars Tony Manna as Meucci and Tim Nicolai as Garibaldi.
DVD Bonus Feature: Italian Unification in a Nutshell (2018, 7-minute animated
documentary)
For more information, visit: www.BongiornoProductions.com
The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum is located at 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island, NY
10305. More information about it can be found at www.garibaldimeuccimuseum.org
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