Premiere Screening of "OLTREMARE"

The Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University invite you to the premiere screening of "Oltremare," a new film on the Sicilian emigration experience, on Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 2 p.m. in the Charles B. Wang Center, Lecture Hall 1. (Enter campus at Main entrance, at stop sign Wang Center is on your right and parking garage is on your left, proceed straight into parking garage)

The film is in Italian with English subtitles. Special guests from Italy will participate in the event: Dr. Scoma, the Sicilian Secretary of the Labor and Immigration Dept., Prof. Saija of the University of Messina, cinema critic Prof. Gesu, and film director Nello Correale.


You will enjoy this somewhat bizarre story (based on actual events) of a group of people who left Sicily in the late 1800's to make a fresh start in America. The voyage was filled with unexpected events, but eventually they reached land. What they encountered was equally unexpected and bizarre, but all ends happily, and the descendants of this group still inhabit the place where they settled!


The film is presented in Italian with English subtitles.


Admission and Parking are both free.