      Italy, Newark (Nevarca) and me receives 6 nodson (Lulu.com) from 1883-2021. 3 Awards as Winner Rome; NYC/India.1 Semi-Finalist,New Orleans1 Nominee1 Selectedby Film Freewayin Rome, Berlin, 8 1/2 in Rome, New Orleans, Atlantis in Los Angeles in 2023.        THE COLUMBUS STATUES IN NEWARK- The Statues Were Erected to Quell the Persecution of Italian Americans During the Red Scare By Daniel P Quinn http://onlineprimo.com. Editor’s Note: Mr. Quinn is the author of “Newark, Italy + Me.”You can purchase his book at Amazon.com or Lulu.com. THE COLUMBUS STATUES IN NEWARK– The Statues Were Erected to Quell the Persecutionof Italian Americans During the Red Scare– The Statues Were Torn Down by Mayor Ras Baraka in 2020 Without Deliberation or Any Input fromItalian Americans in the City One Christopher Columbus (1972) statue endorsed by Congressman Peter Rodino used to stand on Bloomfield Avenue near North 8th Street. The city says it does not know who is responsible for taking it down.Newark also removed another original Columbus statue from Washington Park (1925-2022) that honored Giuseppe Verdi and Italian immigrant history in Newark. The Dawn of Nevarca (Newark’s Little Italy) from 1885 when they fled economic hardship and poverty of the impoverished Mezzogiorno region. Southern Italy (Il Sud) was the raison d’etre for Newark’s Little Italy. Phonetically, Nevarca, was a Southern Italian contraction for their New Ark in America. Antonio Caruso (my great-Grandfather) arrived in the 1880’s and became a grocer in the First Ward on 8th Ave (now Central Ward). His wife’s maiden name was Tuosto. The family attended St Lucy’s Church. All nine children worked in the grocery store to help the family earn a living. The immigrant Italians suffered deportations and discrimination. In part, this came out of the 1912, 1913 and 1919 labor strikes in Paterson and Lowell, Massachusetts. Deportations began the FBI career of 24-year-old J. Edgar Hoover. The Red Scare began after the Russian Revolution in 1917-20. Labor activists like the Irish native Elizabeth Gurley Flynn spoke at the American Labor Museum Botto House during the 1913 Paterson strike. Russian émigré Emma Goldman was also active in the pursuit of workers rights and living wages. She was later deported back to Russia. A Shoe Factory Payroll robbery in 1920 in South Braintree, Massachusetts had Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Sacco & Vanzetti) arrested for the crime. Terrified, they spoke little English. They became a media sensation of the radical left and the hard rock conservatives in Boston. They endured two infamous trials to be convicted of “consciousness of guilt” and executed by electric chair in 1927. While in Italy, the other elephant was Mussolini (1883-1945) who rose to power in 1922 . |
Not Angela’s ashes but close enuf.
| DPQuinn | New Jersey First Person—-here we/I go. Having now read hundreds of articles on high tech salaries and nirvana—let me respond. Before Manhattan Theatre Club made a nest egg on Broadway, I spent 2 years there as a New Script Consultant and was never paid ANYTHING but rewarded w/a Program Credit. Several years later, I was asked to save The Writers Room from imminent closure. While I worked there as a Consultant for 2 years I was paid but not on salary. Then, I looked askew at the Irish Arts Center and began my work there from 1985-91 on and off-salary. This occurred to me because Ash Wednesday was yesterday. While at IAC I was screamed at by my Irish Protestant boss to leave the building because I had gotten ashes. I had never understood “the troubles” until that day when they were spit in my face on W. 51 St., in Manhattan. The non-profit sector is nor a nirvana either. |
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Mussolini was also called IL DUX from the Latin enschrined still today on a mountaintop between Rietti and Rome. CHILLING still in 2023.
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Really? That’s incorrect Latin and Italian. Isn’t it either “il duce” (Italian) or “dux” (Latin)?
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@Cory It was a made up word combining elements of both.
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9 Awards for four of our submissions from Sophocles till 2023.
Stanley Film Awards
AMERICAN PHANTASMAGORIA
February 10, 2023
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Swedish International Film Festival
AMERICAN PHANTASMAGORIA
January 9, 2023
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The Filmmaker’s Space Film Festival
SACCO & VANZETTI: BURN !!!
December 30, 2022
In Consideration
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Roma Short Film Festival
Italy, Newark (Nevarca) and me 1922-2022
December 5, 2022
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Red Moon Film Festival (7th Season)
Italy, Newark (Nevarca) and me 1922-2022
November 30, 2022
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One-Reeler Short Film Competition
SACCO & VANZETTI: BURN !!!
July 25, 2022
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Sweet Democracy Film Awards
Death of Hercules
May 9, 2022
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Sweet Democracy Film Awards
SACCO & VANZETTI: BURN !!!
April 9, 2022
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Beyond the Curve International Film Festival
Death of Hercules
August 25, 2021
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Our support of Ukraine Ballet in NJ.
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Four years ago, I started surveying historic sites in conjunction with my Newark, Italy and me (Lulu.com) book in the First Ward Historic District here in Newark. There is a broader Italo-American community in NJ and across the USA.
Then Covid-19 hit and these plans went into abeyance.
NEWARK, ITALY AND ME received a 5 star review by PRIMO magazine on Amazon.com. There is so little material on Italian-American history that I started to think about a documentary non-commercial film.
At this point, I prepared a web site on Film Freeway where we already won 22 Awards/Citations for SACCO & VANZETTI: BURN !!!. We also received 6 more Awards/Citations for DEATH OF HERCULES from Sophocles’ rarely seen tragedy
THE WOMEN OF TRACHIS.
I thought it would be very exciting to turn it into a documentary film with your support.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR CHARITABLE SUPPORT FOR THIS PROJECT FROM OUR COMMUNITY AND FRIENDS FOR 2022–23.
NewBorn Short Film Festival Berlin
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Roma Short Film Festival
Italy, Newark (Nevarca) and me 1922–2022
December 5, 2022
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DIFFS — Discovery Int Fest of Film & Story
Italy, Newark (Nevarca) and me 1922–2022
December 17, 2022
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New Filmmakers New Orleans
Italy, Newark (Nevarca) and me 1922–2022
January 5, 2023
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Red Moon Film Festival (6th Season)
Italy, Newark (Nevarca) and me 1922–2022
November 30, 2022
In Consideration
SPAIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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