Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies (2008)
Interviews, film clips and home movies from Italian American filmmakers highlight personal experiences and comment on Hollywood's politics and cultural impact.
Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotyped as gangsters in American movies to insiders in Hollywood who took control of their own stories. Interviews, film clips and home movies from Italian American filmmakers highlight personal experiences and comment on Hollywood's politics and cultural impact.
- Release date
- January 20, 2008
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Lisa Nardi
Cast
- Giorgio Bertellini
- Paul Borghese as Narrator
- John Caglione Jr. as Self
- Frank Capra Jr. as Self
- David Chase as Self
- Dominic Chianese as Self
- George de Stefano
- William DeMeo
- Fred Gardaphe
Crew
- Francis Capra · Archive footage
- Steven Fischler · Director
- Rosanne Deluca Braun · Writer
- Joe Gilford · Writer
- Joel Sucher · Writer
- Rosanne Deluca Braun · Producer
- Steven Fischler · Producer
- Joel Sucher · Producer
- Lisa Nardi · Composer
- John Miglietta · Cinematographer
- Katsumi Funahashi · Editor
- David Lindblom · Editor
- Eve Battaglia · Casting director