“Americans can understand Italian culture better and better according to how much Italians are willing to make the effort to explain it to them,” Marco Bonini said... January 20, 2008 By TAMMY LA GORCE

A Film Trilogy on

INTEGRATION

Mr. Dago

I belong nowhere

(USA-Italy)

The third film is an epical musical on Italian-American Jewish migration after the racial laws Mussolini passed in 1938. The screenplay has been currently developed with scholar Matteo Pretelli and prof Mauro Canali. It is a great picture about the real and secret - so far - adventure of Italians in New York City during second world war when Sex and Cabaret, fascist fifth column and Jewish antifascist Intellectuals, mafia mobsters and enemy aliens, new immigrants as well as second generation of Italian-Americans were all piled up within a couple streets around Bowery. It is a super historically documented story completely unknown to international audiences, which would give a new image of Italian-Americans through the entertaining form of a musical.

I forgot to have a baby

(USA-Italy-Canada)

Use is a romantic comedy of errors about the conflict between the desire for a family in today's America and the concept of family which resists in Sicily today. Liz and Deb, who are looking for a sperm donor at “any price”. Fabio and Matteo are two italian cousins living in Los Angeles and each day they scramble for odd jobs and worry about taking care of Matteo's little girl, Lilly. The ladies believe they can outwit the men and use them for their purposeÉ so do the boysÉ but we will see who will have who in the end. This is a double love story which comes out ok for the “wrong” reasons. It is a story full of irony, feelings, strokes of luck, vitality, optimism and determination.

Billo, Le Grand Dakhaar!

(Italy-Senegal)

(www.billofilm.net).

I wrote the first film with senegalese writer Mbacke Gadji and co-produced it with Youssou N'Dour. It is a bitter sweet comedy about a Muslim Senegalese young tailor who arrives in Italy on one of those dodgy boats with the dream of Italian fashion and eventually makes it, even if he ends up in the difficult position of having two wives, one Italian one Senegalese and both knowing and hating each other. (based on a true story). Directed by Laura Muscardin (IT).

NPC

(Italy)

Love and marriage.... do they really go together like a horse and carriage? what happens after ten years of partnership and some children? Italian men play football once a week while the ladies gossip over organic meals... same issues, opposite points of view...

18YL

(Italy)

The story of a mixed family with an Italian father and an English mother who bring up two kids who don't recognize each other as brothers. A young English girl tries really hard to put them back together. A summer journey through languages, comedy, ages, sentiments andÉ mystery! Éwhen life separates, only death can reunite!