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9 mar 2001 · Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July: Directed by Tony De Nonno. With Michael Badalucco, John Turturro. Imagine 125 men carrying a five-ton, five-story, hand-sculptured tower and a 12- piece brass band - on their shoulders - dancing it through their neighborhood in tempo to joyous Italian folk songs!
- Tony De Nonno
- 2001-03-09
- Documentary
- 57
1 ott 2002 · Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July | ITVS. A look at one of the most enduring Italian folk traditions in America — the 110-year-old “Dance of the Giglio” celebration. Series. PBS Plus Presentation. Premiere Date. October 1, 2002. Length. 60 minutes. Funding Initiative. Open Call. Producer. Tony DeNonno. We fund untold stories for public media.
Imagine 125 men carrying a five-ton, five-story, hand-sculptured tower and a 12- piece brass band - on their shoulders - dancing it through their neighborhood in tempo to joyous Italian folk songs! For 300 years in Italy, and the past century in communities throughout the greater New York area, this glorious ritual known as
The video portrays the Italian section of Williamsburg, an early site of immigrant settlement, as “rock solid.” It is as if the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway never leveled blocks of viable houses, dispossessed unknown numbers of families, and divided the neighborhood in two during the late 1940s.
His 2001 Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July, about the Festa de Giglio (Feast of Lilies, which De Nonno has, in his words, "become obsessed" with) celebrating St. Paulinus of Nola in Williamsburg, was sharply criticized by Joseph Sciorra of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College.
- January 12, 1947 (age 76)
- 1970–present
- Filmmaker, photographer, puppeteer
- New York Institute of Technology
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July. 2001. 57m. Documentary. Cast. Michael Badalucco (Narrator) John Turturro (Narrator) Director. Tony De Nonno. Synopsis. Imagine 125 men carrying a...
1 ott 2002 · Imagine 125 men carrying a five-ton, five-story, hand-sculptured tower and a 12- piece brass band - on their shoulders - dancing it through their neighborhood in tempo to joyous Italian folk songs! For 300 years in Italy, and the past century in communities throughout the greater New York area, this glorious ritual known as "The Dance of the Giglio" has been celebrated each summer with ...
