Immigrant Son The Story of John D_ Mezzogiorno

Product Description Award winning documentary film by Frank Cappiello traces the voyage of a family with peasant roots from their journey across the Atlantic and arrival at Ellis Island, and the slums of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and on to the Bronx of the 1910s-1960s, a promised land. The American Dream. Review One of the best films on immigration in years. --J. Davies - Independent Film Quarterly Something is pulling at John Mezzogiorno. Voices from the past are calling him back to tell their story, and in doing so to tell his own. Immigrant Son follows John's attempt as a fourth generation American to make sense of his past, the travails of his ancestors who came to the New World, and ultimately America itself. From a traffic jam on the Cross Bronx Expressway, to idyllic sloping hills and lush pastures of Central Italy, Immigrant Son takes us on a journey through time. Pasted and spliced together with over a century of sound and image, and motivated by a real story to tell, it is perhaps best suited as a dialogue starter on the question of what it means to be American. --James Rossi - New York Press A compelling story of Italian immigration to which every one of us can relate and be touched by. --Professor Mario Mignone - Center for Italian Studies - State University of New York About the Director American born director Frank Cappiello moved to Rome, Italy where he has been living and working for over a decade. With a keen interest in film, he went on to found Lux Vista Films in 2010, and in 2012 completed his first feature-length documentary, Immigrant Son: The Story of John D. Mezzogiorno.