Giovanni Tambellini: italians of Pittsburgh
from Familiar and strange

Italian student filmmakers share their story

Thursday, November 04, 2010
by Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Flavia Tiberi was in Rome when the walls -- and almost everything else -- came tumbling down 70 miles away in L'Aquila, where she was enrolled in film school.

"My house totally crashed down. So when I came back, my bed was full of rubble. I thought, if I was there, I probably die. I don't know," the 24-year-old Italian said from the cozy confines of Pittsburgh Filmmakers in Oakland this week.

“Familiar and Strange” screening November 5th

Posted by Terry Ford Aiello on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 7:39 PM 

 Last fall four film students came to Pittsburgh from L’Aquila, Italy, where their college was destroyed by an earthquake.  They began work on a remarkable documentary about Italian-Americans in Pittsburgh, titled “Familiar and Strange”.  Bloomfield is very prominent in the film.

This fall two of the filmmakers returned to complete the film.  Happily, it was chosen as one of the opening night films of the 29th Three Rivers Film Festival, one starting, November 5.

To find out more visit: http://www.3rff.com/events.html

There’s a party afterwards, included in the $15 admission. It will be a very entertaining evening, of particular interest to generations of Italians here in Bloomfield.  The film is in Italian with English subtitles.

http://www.bloomfieldnow.com/2010/11/02/familiar-and-strange-screening-november-5th/

On Camera, Unexpectedly

Written by Leslie Hanson, Pittsburgh November 2009

Juggling a six-foot long microphone cord, cables, and a camera, four Pitt students film a busy laboratory at Compunetix in Monroeville, Pa. One student balances the camera on his shoulder and films lab technicians as they show off components of teleconferencing systems they’ve developed. Another holds the cable cords and asks the technicians questions about their work, while the third hoists the microphone over the scene and the fourth supervises the action.