Elon University’s Department of Foreign Languages , in collaboration with Tavola Italiana degli Studenti e della Communita’ di Contea Alamance, are proud to present this Tuesday, Feb. 19, the Italian documentary filmmaker, Salvo Cuccia, who will present and discuss, along with his photographer colleague, Giuseppe Mineo, Cuccia’s award-winning documentary film (50 minutes in length), “Beyond Selinunte.” Professor and award-winning documentary film maker, Tony Fragola from UNC-Greensboro, will introduce Cuccia and Mineo and participate in a discussion following the viewing of the film.
This unique serata di film e conversazione begins at 7 p.m. and takes place in the Communications School’s Studio B.
Sicilian director, Salvo Cuccia is a rising star in the international world of documentary filmmaking. In 2005, Cuccia was introduced by Martin Scorsese at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In his newly released production, “Beyond Selinunte,” he discusses the 1968 earthquake that destroyed the entire city of Belice, Sicily. By blending his art with documentary Cuccia has created a style that is truly his own vision.
Sicilian photographer Giuseppe Mineo has exhibited his work in galleries and museums world-wide, including China, Switzerland, Germany, and Tunisia. Multiple books featuring his work have been published. He is the photographer for the Regional Center for Cataloguing and Documentation (Sicily). He describes his principal goal as “working to preserve the beauty of Sicily through my lens.
Anthony Fragola is Professor of Broadcasting and Cinema at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He co-authored, along with Roch C. Smith, “The Erotic Dream Machine: Interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet on His Films,” published by the University of Southern Illinois Press. His collection of short stories, “Feast of the Dead,’ based on Italian American themes, was published by Guernica Press and later translated and published in Italy by Coppola Editore as “Festa dei morti e altre storie.” His stories have been published in literary magazines both here and abroad, and his short films and videos have been shown in film festivals, colleges and universities. His film, “Feast of the Dead,” is both a personal journey back to Sicily and a study of the ritual of honoring past relatives on All Souls’ Day. He has completed a translation of a collection of interviews with Sicilian women entitled: “Sicilian Women: True Stories of Conviction and Courage.” Professor Fragola 2007 film, “Un bellissimo ricordo,” produced in cooperation with Elon University’s Jay McMerty, features the final recorded interview with Felicia Impastato (1918 – 2006), one of the architects of modern Sicily’s popular non-violent resistance to la cosa nostra and other forms of organized political and economic crime in Sicily and the Mediterranean basin.
For further information, contact Remi Lanzoni, 336.278.5727, or RLanzoni@elon.edu , as well as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belice
www.comune.santamargheritadibelice.ag.it