Dancing All of You
Dancing All of You
 
Come and meet elegant, 62-year-old, African-Cuban-American song-&-dance man, Alfredo Gustar. Watch Alfredo in performance recreating dizzying tap-dancing routine from his starring role in Duke Ellington’s 1940’s Broadway Musical, “Jump for Joy.”
 
Alfredo will lift you up with his graceful dances and stories about a lifetime of tap working with such Jazz legends as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald. Join Alfred Gustar and the lovely Carol Hess, as they swirl together on a rooftop at sunset, in a lyrical ballroom soft-shoe dance that would have made Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers proud. In “Dancing” All of You award winning filmmaker, Tony De Nonno, has truly built a stage on which Romance and Reality dance. —Richard Fliegel
 
24 Min. DVD

"A film portrait of a dancer devoted to his craft and master of it. Excellent enrichment material for dance, jazz and music aficionados." —Landers Film Reviews

Curriculum Applications: American Music History, Dance, Jazz, Tap Dance, Multi-cultural Education, Music History, Profiles.
Ages 9 to Adult.
Itzhak Pearlman
Itzhak Perlman: In My Case Music
 
Enjoy the virtuosity of internationally celebrated violinist, Itzhak Perlman, playing with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Listen to his stories about growing up physically-challenged.
 
Meet his wife and family and watch him entertain and delight a classroom of physically-challenged students. You won’t want to miss this visit with one of the world’s most uplifting violinists.
 
10 Min. DVD

"Hearing Mr. Perlman playing... is a treat, to visit with him in this film... is indeed a privilege."
—Landers Film Reviews

Curriculum Applications: Music, Special Education, Profiles, Ethnic Studies, Family Life, Family Relations, Career Education, Multi-cultural Education, Violin.
Ages 9 to Adult.
One Generation is Not Enough
One Generation Is Not Enough
 
One Generation Is Not Enough to perfect the art of violin-making, as the family of Max Frirsz has practiced it for nearly 200 years. In a small shop in New York City, 19-year-old Nicholas Frirsz hand carves his fifth viola under his Hungarian-born father’s demanding guidance. We sense how difficult this grafting of the family’s artistic tradition must be to span not only a generation gap — but an ocean of cultural differences.
 
Tony De Nonno’s “superb” camera and “tight” editing (Sightlines) capture the delicate art of violin-making and provide a window through which we share the hopes and conflicts of a father and his son. As Nicholas struggles for his stern father’s approval, Max urges and challenges his son to excellence. “As prelude to a discussion of family (father and son) relationships or generational differences, it is superb.” —Film News.
 
“Acclaimed violist Toby Appel’s performance on Nicholas’s finished viola ends the film on a note of success that makes One Generation Is Not Enough an excellent choice for family television programming.” —Richard Fliegel
 
24 Min. DVD

"His desire to survive his father's strict tutelage is strong, however, and this beautifully photographed film plays homage to the remarkable talents possessed by both father and son..."
—Judith Trojan, Media & Methods

Curriculum Applications: Social Studies, Music, Language arts, Ethnic Studies, Family Life, Family Relations, Trades & Careers, Multicultural Education, Violin.
Ages 9 to Adult.
Anne Akiko Meyers- Beyond the Gift of Music
Anne Akiko Meyers- Beyond the Gift of Music
 
Join 11-year-old violin-virtuoso Anne Akiko Meyers as she takes you on a journey beyond her gift of music. Watch the joyful spirit of this young Japanese-American in a master class and in performance, and experience Anne’s remarkable devotion and celebration of music. Under the nurturing guidance of world-class violinist and teacher, Alice Shoenfeld, Anne is inspired to the highest level of professional excellence. Today Anne Akiko Meyers has become an internationally-renowned violin virtuoso-performing as a featured soloist with some of the greatest orchestras worldwide.
 
This inspiring film portrait of a gifted 11-year-old, reveals that the process of becoming a musician demands great dedication and personal sacrifice. You will deeply appreciate how this young violinist’s work ethic and love of music, combined with her Master Violin teacher’s commitment to empowering her student, has enabled Anne Akiko Meyers to become a world-class violinist.—Richard Fliegel
 
10 Min. DVD

The camera spies warm scenes of Anne's family in this brief insight into the thoughts, challenges, and life of an already accomplished artist." —Booklist, American Library Association

Curriculum Applications: Music. Gifted & Talented, Ethnic Studies, Teacher Training, Career Education, Profiles, Multicultural Education, Violin, Family Life, Family Relations, Values Education.
Ages 9 to Adult.
Moria: A Vision of Blindness
Moria: A Vision of Blindness
 
From her perch high in a climbing tree, 11-year-old Moira Egan insists, “Just because I was born blind doesn’t mean I can’t try a lot of things in life.” Watch her doing a back dive from a high board, playing baseball, picking apples, making apple pie, and creating original poetry right before our eyes. “I feel I could go out and try a lot of things in life and being blind isn’t going to stop me.” See how this spirited youngster reassures us with her self-reliance and her inspiring commentary on life. Moira: A Vision of Blindness is “Highlighted with delicate harp melodies, the beautifully clear cinematography reflects Moira’s healthy, unencumbered outlook on life-an attitude that will reassure youngsters, their parents, and their teachers that blind and otherwise different children can make caring friends and contributing classmates and citizens”
—Mary Bludnicki, School Library Journal
 
24 Min. DVD

"One of the most outstanding films about blind persons; it has warmth, sincerity, and and most of all, integrity." —American Foundation for the Blind

Curriculum Applications: Special Education, Guidance, Teacher Training, Profiles, Family Life, Family Relations, Blindness, Occupational Therapy,
Ages 9 to Adult.
a3520 for Piano Solo
a3520 for piano solo
 
Experience Matthias Kriesberg performing his piano composition “a3520,” a work The New Yorker called “exhilarating,” in the dark resonant interior of a 19th century Gothic cathedral in New York City. See the dynamic images award-winning filmmaker Tony De Nonno has created to move in harmony with the composition.
 
Matthias Kriesberg, one of the leading composers of his generation, treats the piano in startling new ways keeping the entire keyboard in motion at once. De Nonno’s lyrical camera angles and dramatic lighting creates an atmosphere in sync with the explosive psychological power and subtlety of Kriesberg’s “new tonality.” This contemporary music video offers insight into a new performance technique and aesthetic vision that will inspire composers and performers in their own personal expression.
 
7 Min. DVD

Experience Mathhias Kriesberg performing his piano composition "3520," a work The New Yorker magazine called "exhilarating."

Curriculum Applications: Performance Studies, New Music, American Music History. Education.
Ages 9 to Adult.
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
 
Imagine 125 men carrying a five-ton, five-story, hand-sculpted tower and a 12-piece brass band - on their shoulders - dancing it through their neighborhood in tempo to joyous Italian folk songs! For 300 year in Italy, and the past century in communities throughout the greater New York area, this glorious ritual known as "The Dance of Giglio" has been celebrated each summer with unbridled passion and devotion. This annual 65-foot-high moving monument to faith, folk-art and family honors a Roman Catholic Saint, San Paolino di Nola and his heroic act of sacrifice in the ancient Italian city of Nola in the year 409 A.D.
 
In HEAVEN TOUCHES BROOKLYN IN JULY, internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker Tony De Nonno takes audiences on an enlightening 1,600 year-old journey. By interweaving film footage spanning in the 20th century with warm and passionate interviews of Italian American men, women and children form five to ninety-five transporting this awe-inspiring tradition into the 21st Century.
 
Eighteen years in the making and lovingly edited from more than 140O hours of footage, HEAVEN TOUCHES BROOKLYN IN JULY is narrated by world-renowned actors John Turturro (Barton Fink, Illuminata) and Michael Badalucco (Emmy Award-winning star of ABC's "The Practice"). It is a historic film that all the world should see -- for if you look closely at he peoples faces and each lifter's smiling soulful eyes there is no denying that they feel blessed with a sense of knowing that HEAVEN TOUCHES BROOKLYN IN JULY.
 
57 Min. DVD

"How do you put into words a chill that runs down your spine? What power, love and devotion." —Lawrence E. Tamanini, Host The Italian American Hour

Curriculum Applications: Social Studies, American History, Italian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Multicultural Education, Family Life, Immigration, Values Education.
Ages 9 to Adult.
It's One Family- Knock on Wood
It's One Family- Knock on Wood
 
Orlando Furioso is a five foot tall performer living in Brooklyn, and is made of wood. Fifty years ago he was carved from oak and given a suit of armor by Papa Manteo and his children, and Orlando's sword still flashes on a stage.
 
In It's One Family: Knock On Wood, we meet puppeteers Mike and Aida Manteo, their children and grandchildren, a family bound together by a Sicilian folk tradition that dates back to the 16th Century.
 
Mike builds marionettes; Aida sews capes and gowns; on stage, Orlando woos Angelica in the court of Charlemagne, as the entire family works together to entertain audiences across America.
 
24 Min. DVD

"Producer Tony De Nonno has created a gentle old-fashioned film, a look into lives rooted in the Italian Renaissance—and oh, the caring, tender respect for craft in this family." —Newsday

Curriculum Applications: Social Studies, Ethnic Studies, Italian American Studies, Family Life, Family Relations, Values Education, Multicultural Education, Theater Arts, Puppets & Marionettes
Ages 9 to Adult.
Part Of Your Loving
Part of Your Loving
 
Part of Your Loving focuses on an Italian-born baker, Ben Togati, who brings the bread making process to life with his words and hands. The motion and rhythm of his work give the bread making process a spiritual quality- making bread becomes an art, a celebration of life.
 
“The camera is always where it should be,” said The New Yorker's Pauline Kael, appraising the “beautiful, modest technique,” of Tony De Nonno on PBS Television Network. “Part of Your Loving is very well made,” she judged almost impeccable,” giving her nod to what New York Times film critic, Janet Maslin has dubbed “De Nonno's deft and impressive filmmaking... De Nonno is intuitively aware of the subject;s uniqueness and significance to our society.”
 
10 Min. DVD

"It's just about impeccable. The camera is always where it should be. The man is treated with affection. And it's very complete. You get a sense of his life." — Pauline Kael, Legendary Film Critic

Curriculum Applications: Social Studies, Italian-American Studies, Language Arts, Career Guidance, Home Economics, Ethnic Studies, Profiles, Trades & Careers, Family Relations, Multi-cultural Education.
Ages 9 to Adult.
Antonio Meucci: The Father of the Telephone
Antonio Meucci: The Father of the Telephone
 
Explore the fascinating life of Antonio Meucci, the true inventor of the telephone, and learn how he was denied his rightful place in history. "Antonio Meucci: The Father of the Telephone" tells the story of an Italian-born mechanical engineer who held a US patent for a "speaking telegraph" in 1871 - five years before Alexander Graham Bell received credit and international acclaim for an almost identical device.
 
This documentary by award-winning filmmaker Tony De Nonno, transports you back to the 19th Century, "the Age of Invention" - a time of robber barons, mass immigration, and the growth of monopolies, when Civil Wars and quests for independence abounded worldwide. You will travel with the young Antonio Meucci as he leaves his native Italy, emigrates to Cuba, and eventually settles in the United States - where he devotes more than twenty years to perfecting his telephone invention - only to be denied the fame and fortune that should have rightfully been his.
 
Finally, you will visit Meucci's home in Staten Island, New York, which today is a national landmark - the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum - which honors Antonio Meucci as the true inventor of the telephone, and Giuseppe Garibaldi, the legendary general, "Hero of Two Worlds" and liberator of the Italian nation.
 
14 Min. DVD

"…tells the story of the Italian-American Whose work on a telephonic communications device pre-dated that of Alexander Graham Bell." — Eric Mink, TV Critic, New York Daily News

Curriculum Applications: Social Studies, Science of Invention, American/Italian/World History, Italian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Multicultural Education, Immigration.
Ages 9 to Adult.
Italian American Visions
Italian American Visions
 
Meet a diverse group of accomplished Italian immigrants who will share their personal accounts of growing up in Italy and coming to America. Through the inspiring stories of a 95-year-old World War I veteran, a New York State Supreme Court Justice, an alternative physician and an internationally renowned playwright, you will gain a unique perspective of life in Italy and America over the last century. Their combined revelations will captivate you, and provide you with an enlightening view of Italian Americans and a revealing look at the essence and complexity of the Italian Soul.
 
14 Min. DVD

Features the touching and sometimes inspirational recollections and reflections of six Italian Americans on their heritage."—Eric Mink, TV Critic, New York Daily News

Curriculum Applications: Social Studies, American/World History, Ethnic Studies, Multi-cultural Education, Italian-American Studies, Family Life, Family Relations, Values Education, Immigration.
Ages 9 to Adult.
John LaCorte
John N. LaCorte: A Monument to History
 
JOHN N. LaCORTE: A MONUMENT TO HISTORY celebrates the life and accomplishments of John N. LaCorte, founder of the Italian Historical Society of America. Mr. LaCorte devoted his life to bringing honor and recognition to individuals of Italian decent who contributed greatly to the history and fabric of America and the world.
 
He was responsible for bringing to national attention the fact that William Paca, one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Maryland, was of Italian descent. LaCorte also brought to light and recognition scores of little-known facts about American history including the fact that Charles J. Bonaparte founded the FBI and that telephone inventor Antonio Meucci held a preliminary US patent for his telephone invention in 1871 - five years before Alexander Graham Bell patented his own telephone.
 
In addition, LaCorte was one of the driving forces behind getting Columbus Day recognized as a National Holiday. Perhaps one of his greatest achievements was his 14-year battle, and ultimate victory, in getting one of the longest suspension bridges in the world, the Verrazzano Bridge, which spans the mouth of New York harbor named, after the great Florentine navigator, Giovanni da Verrazzano. This special half-hour documentary invites you to experience the spirit, vision and philosophy of an extraordinary-ordinary American named John N. LaCorte.
 
26 Min. DVD
Curriculum Applications: Social Studies, American History, Ethnic Studies,Italian American Studies, Multicultural Education,Family Life, Immigration, Values Education.
Ages 9 to Adult.
Serving Society with Heart
Serving Society with Heart
 
Serving Society with Heart chronicles UNICO National, our nation’s largest Italian American Service Organization and the remarkable impact it has had on American society over the last 85 years.
Documentary filmmaker Tony De Nonno takes the audience on a heartwarming journey into UNICO's charitable giving, as it lives up to its motto of placing "Service about Self" --by offering support to individuals of all backgrounds beset by tragedy. De Nonno interweaves powerful images of children fighting cancer, defamation of Italian-Americans in the media, and students of all ages learning about the Italian language, history and culture with heartfelt testimonies by renowned educators, scientist, and community leaders.
 
Narrated by Michael Badalucco, Emmy award-winning start of ABC's "The Practice," this special features appearances by Matilda Raffa Cuomo, former First Lady of New York State; former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi; Abraham Foxman, Executive Director of the Anti-Defamation League; and Dr. Joseph Scelsa, President of the Italian American Museum.
 
UNICO National was born out of discrimination in 1922 when Dr. Anthony Vastola, a young physician was denied membership in an American service origination because he was of Italian descent. Today UNICO National's Anti-Bias Committee, has established itself as the nation's premier fighting force against the almost daily stereotyping of Italian-Americans in the media. A year in the making, and lovingly edited form more than 20 hours of footage, Serving Society With Heart, paints an inspiring portrait of UNICO, its members nationwide and their service and devotion to American Society.
 
26 Min. DVD

"…paints an inspiring portrait of UNICO members nation wider and their service and devotion to American society over the last 85 years " —Fred Gardaphe, Author and Professor of Italian American Studies.

Curriculum Applications: Social Studies, American History, Italian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Multicultural Education, Family Life, Immigration, Values Education.
Ages 9 to Adult.
It's All in My Hands
It's All in My Hands
 
Young shoemaker, John Prince, invites you into his shop to share the pleasure he gets from his work and the pride he puts into it.
 
“Awakens young people to the dignity of working with their hands.” —Dr. Paul Patane, Trustee school Art League.
 
7 Min. DVD (Black & White)

"A film of feeling and quality ...a great vocational guidance film."— Joan Eskenaski, National Career counseling and Resource Center

Curriculum Applications: social Studies, Ethnic Studies, Italian American Studies, Career Guidance, Profiles, Trades & Careers, Family relations, Language Arts, Values Education.
Ages 9 to Adult.
Rebuilding the South Bronx
Rebuilding the South Bronx
 

Rebuilding the South Bronx: The Story of SEBCO captures the remarkable twenty-five year transformation of the South Bronx from an International symbol of Urban Blight to an Internationally Renowned Model of Urban Renewal. Award-winning filmmaker Tony De Nonno interweaves powerful historical visuals of almost total devastation, with passionate and inspiring testimony of the people who lived, believed and came together with a common vision of unity and sacrifice to save their neighborhood and rebuild it for the future generations.
 
In the early 1960's the Hunts Point section of the Bronx was a thriving diverse community of 90,000 residents. Then suddenly - fires raging-- buildings crumbling- over 60,00 New York residents abandoned this almost mortally wounded community leaving it to street gangs, drug dealers, slum lords, and packs of wild dogs. A young priest Father Louis Gigante, heard the cries of the people and took to the streets with a mission. This modern day Nehemiah, (who saved Jerusalem the Bible) rallies the support of 13 community groups and a core of dedicated followers - behind on simple belief - rebuild Hunts Point and give our people a chance to live self-sufficiently in decent affordable housing. That vision, 25 years ago, gave birth to the South East Bronx Community Organization known as SEBCO- whose vast accomplishments include scores of new homes and an impressive array of renovated apartment buildings, libraries, parks, hospitals, and tree lined streets.
 
Today thanks to SEBCO's inspiring leadership, Hunts Point is a thriving community rebuilt, policed and administrated by its proud residents. It is a living testimony of neighbors working with neighbors to save and rebuild their dream community. —Richard Fliegal
 
14 Min. DVD

"…people who lived, believed and came together... to save their neighborhood and rebuild it for the future generations." —Richard Fliegel

Curriculum Applications: Social Studies, Urban Studies, Urban Renewal, Ethnic Studies, Guidance, Values Education, Multi-Cultural Education, Cultural Diversity.
Ages 9 to Adult.
A Cause for Celebration
A Cause for Celebration
 
A Cause for Celebration: The Council for Unity — a school-based support group of New York City Public School students (from elementary school to high school) — share their experiences of building cross-cultural friendships, accepting their differences, strengthening their similarities,, and speaking out against prejudiced in any form. This empowering documentary address racism, sexism, and classicism. It has inspired students in thirty-five states across America to initiate their own Council for Unity.
 
"The Council of Unity is 'an adventure in citizenship' that builds cross-cultural relationships and self-esteem. Sounds unrealistic? An impossible ideal, in the light of today's racial tension and gang warfare? One look at A Cause for celebration and even the most skeptical viewer may feel a glimmer of hope... one gets the sense that, as long as there is dialogue, as long as young people are willing to talk about what makes them different and appreciate what makes other different then there is hope for peace among all people." — Rebecca Lanning, fast Times Magazine
 
17 Min. DVD

"Hispanic, black, white, Asian- all testifying to the need for people to live together, respect one another and one's self, build friendships, and speak out against prejudice and racism." —Judy Gray, Nottingham High School, Syracuse NY

Curriculum Applications: Social Studies, Ethnic Studies, Guidance, Values Education, Multicultural Education, Cultural Diversity
Ages 9 to Adult.
Young People
Young People Building Bridges to a Safer World
 
Young People Building Bridges to a Safer World captures the essence of the Council for Unity's 30-plus year track record of success and legacy in implementing school-based and after-school programs in leadership development, mentoring, career, college guidance and gang intervention.
 
Testimony of young reformed high school and middle school aged gang members, most whom cite violent pasts are the central part of this documentary. Their comments and those of some principals, teachers, and school superintendents about how the Council for Unity saved and transformed their lives, school and community are compelling.
 
This documentary also reveals how the Council for Unity provides the framework and democratic approach to conflict resolution training whereby administrators, faculty and students work together to create a school-wide culture of non-aggression.  
9 Min. DVD

Some of these kids, former gang members have become Rhodes scholars, judges, partners in the most prestigious law firms in this country and even teachers." —Randil Weingarten, President of American Federation of Teachers

Curriculum Applications: Social Studies, Ethnic Studies, Guidance, Values Education, Multicultural Education, Cultural Diversity
Ages 9 to Adult.
A Gift of Joy
A Gift of Joy
 
A Gift of Joy celebrates the essence, breath and scope of the Brooklyn Public Library's nationally renown- " service to the Aging Program" and the positive impact it has on the lives of the seniors it serves at all of the library's 58 branches.
 
Tony De Nonno weaves a captivating documentary about this remarkable program which is dedicated to empowering and providing seniors with arts, cultural education and lifestyle programs which enhance their lives.
 
Brooklyn in New York City's largest borough with a population of more than 2.5 million people and the film captures a diversity of Brooklyn seniors sharing their stories about how the "service to the Aging" has touched their lives. "It is so wonderful..." an elderly gentleman exclaim, "it brings theater, information and poetry to your own backyard."
 
Rounding out this documentary is a rich array of enlightening music, cultural, and arts programs. Featured are performances by the Jazz Guitarist, Ray Rivera, the acclaimed Italian Opera Company and moving performances by the Puerto Rican Cuatro Folkloric Ensemble and the Chinese Music Ensemble. The heartfelt testimonies of the seniors and interwoven with the mission of the Service to the Aging Program. This combination of uplifting music, art and education programs that serve the ever-changing needs of seniors certainly give them “A Gift of Joy.”
—Raanan Geberer, Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
 
26 Min. DVD

"... one of our nation's shining examples of service and devotion to seniors and their community." —Raanan Geberer, Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Curriculum Applications: Social Studies, Ethnic Studies, Guidance, Values Education, Multicultural Education. Cultural Diversity.
Ages 9 to Adult.
Tai Chi and Seniors
Tai Chi and Seniors
 
Tai Chi and Seniors: A Meditation In Movement captures the diversity of senior citizens in the Sunset Park and Coney Island sections of Brooklyn as they practice the ancient Chinese martial art of Tai Chi under the masterful guidance of their instructor, Joseph Rubino.
 
The seniors in this documentary reveal the remarkable impact Tai Chi has had on their lives, spirit and well being. By interweaving captivating footage of seniors sharing their experiences and practicing Tai Chi, award-winning filmmaker Tony De Nonno has created an enlightening and inspiring documentary video for individuals of all ages.
—CUNY and PBS TV Network stations
 
14 Min. DVD

"Tai Chi is beautiful to watch... Some stand, some sit and others are in wheelchairs. They turn slowly in unison like they are all underwater." —C. J. Sullivan, New York Press

Curriculum Applications: Sports, Health Education, Recreation, Values Education, Lifestyles.
Ages 9 to Adult.
Tai Chi and Seniors
The Ways of the Wind
 
Sail through the summer on a custom-made "Fireball," with 17-year-old physically challenged Champion sailor Bruce Klein at he helm. Join this junior instructor at the Sea Cliff Yacht Club where he teaches youngsters to read cloud movements and the dark spots on the water where the stronger winds blow.
 
Feel what it is like to have the wind at your back and your hand on the helm. Bruce Klein take us on board for a sailing lesson with World Champion Steve Benjamin, and steers us through a thunderstorm to victory in the race for Fireball Champion of the Long Island Sound. Share Bruce's excitement and challenge of light-air sailing, a sport that appeals to the free spirit in all of us.
—Richard Fliegel
 
24 Min. DVD

"This inspiring program offers and enlightening look at the popular sport of sailing. Through film footage shot on board small boars the lyrical beauty and excitement of small boats racing becomes apparent" —ABC Television Network

Curriculum Applications: Sailing, Recreation, Special Education, Values Education, Family Life, Family relations.
Ages 9 to Adult.
The UN in Queens: A Global Celebration
The UN in Queens: A Global Celebration
 
The UN in Queens: A Global Celebration: – celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations by taking viewers on an enlightening historical journey to the original site of the UN general Assembly in the New York City borough of Queens. In Flushing Meadow in 1946, immediately following the tragedy of World War II, diplomats representing 55 nations gathered in a vast assembly hall, with one resolve-to save succeeding generations form the scourge of war, to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the equal rights of men and woman and in nations large and small. The film reveals that between 1946 and 1952 these pioneering ambassadors faced with awesome responsibilities and a complex series of issues that are still dominating the world today–Israel and Palestine, Korea, UN Peacekeeping and UNICEF. Today the building in which they assembled and was originally built for the 1939 Worlds Fair, houses the Queens Museum. This enlightening tribute to the New York City Borough of Queens, also featuress other aspects of Queen's remarkable international character, legacy and history–from the 1939 and 1964 World's Fair, JFK International Airport, Shea Stadium to a place today, where over 177 languages are spoken, and almost a million people from all over the world call home.
 
14 Min. DVD

"Documentray filmmaker Tony De Nonno takes you on an unforgettable journey into one of the world's most diverse communities—Queens" —Jack McCleland, Central Library Director:Brooklyn Public Library

Curriculum Applications: History, Social Studies, Ethnic Studies, Values Education, Multicultural Education, Cultural Diversity.
Ages 9 to Adult.
The Kiss of Death
The Kiss Of Death
 
THE KISS OF DEATH is a madcap gangster spoof, complete with a don, his moll, hit-men, chase scenes and a zany rubout. If you're a fan of gangster movies, this new twist on the classic genre will give your funny bone an offer it can't refuse!.
 
4 Min. DVD

"De Nonno's impressive collection of documentary films have brought world audiences into the real lives of Italian Americans. In “The Kiss of Death” he takes the defamation of his heritage head-on so masterfully—with drama and humor. The result is outstanding."—Fred Gardaphé, distinguished Professor of Italian American Studies—Queens College and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

El Fang-Dango
El Fang-Dango
 

At the dawn of a dark, dark night in Transylvania, Count Dracula awakens with a fang-ache. Desperate, the Count appears at the door of his fangtist, Dr. Sabre, almost tearing it down in order to relieve his suffering.

During the comically gruesome procedures, Count Dracula falls madly in blood with Annabelle, Dr. Sabre’s alluring assistant. Annabelle, shrewdly knows when to put a spike into the Count’s flirting and especially how to keep the notorious fiend at bay—at least for the time being.

Dr. Sabre is faced with a frightful decision–one that will ultimately have a profound effect on Count Dracula’s nightlife.

Will Dracula go down for the count, or can he win the tempting neck of the ever-alluring Annabelle? You won’t want to miss this fangishly funny spoof on the legend of Count Dracula, the most famous fiend of them all!
 
14 Min. DVD

"Filmmaker Tony De Nonno has created a fresh, fun-filled take on life in Transylvania that will suck the laughs right out of you. An added treat is the vampy original piano score that donald sosin composed and performed for the film."—Thomas Vitale, Executive Vice President Programming Syfy & Chiller