Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno

Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno at TEDxNJIT 2015

Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno are Newark, New Jersey based husband-and-wife filmmakers.[1] Marylou is a producer, director and screenwriter who received her MFA from the graduate film program at New York University. Jerome is a cinematographer, editor, animator and screenwriter.[2]

Their award winning films include the 3Rs Trilogy of documentaries on urban America:[3] Revolution '67[4] on the 1967 Newark riots/rebellion; The Rule,[5][6] on the highly successful urban school model of Newark Abbey and Saint Benedict's Preparatory School (screened by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans at the U.S. Department of Education[7]), both broadcast nationally on PBS,[8][9] and upcoming Rust,[10] on solutions to inner city poverty. Their Emmy-nominated documentary Mother-Tongue: Italian American Sons & Mothers featured Martin Scorsese, John Turturro, Rudy Giuliani and Pat DiNizio.[11]

The Bongiornos' museum installations in 3D are New Work: Art in 3D which began with Newark in 3D, commissioned and exhibited by the Newark Museum from 2009 to 2010 and reinstalled in 2016,[12][13] and installed at Newark Liberty International Airport from 2013 to 2014 as the airport's first art film;[14][15] The Brooklyn Waterfront in 3D, presented by the Museum of the City of New York in 2010;[16] and SI3D (Staten Island in 3D) commissioned and exhibited by the Staten Island Museum for 2015 to 2016.[17]

They created and hosted the Watermark (fiction film) Conference at Wingspread[18] and the Newark Poverty Reduction Conference at Rutgers University [19] and presented solutions to poverty at TEDxNJIT.[20]

The Bongiornos were recipients of film fellowships at the MacDowell Colony.[21]

References

  1. ↑ Rule Makers (2014-05-22). "Rule Makers | radius Magazine Online". Radius-magazine.info. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  2. ↑ "Sony |". Pro.sony.com. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  3. ↑ "Rutgers newsletter".
  4. ↑ "Revolution '67 - The Leonard Lopate Show". WNYC. 2007-07-10. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  5. ↑ "The Rule': Film Review". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  6. ↑ "The Rule - PBS film website".
  7. ↑ "U.S. Department of Education - ed blog".
  8. ↑ "Revolution '67". ITVS. 2007-07-10. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  9. ↑ Marylou Bongiorno. "PBS Pressroom - THE RULE". Pressroom.pbs.org. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  10. ↑ "nj.com".
  11. ↑ "52a Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema | Mother-Tongue: Italian American Sons & Mothers". Pesarofilmfest.it. 2007-06-21. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  12. ↑ "Newark Museum podcast".
  13. ↑ "New Work: Newark in 3D - Newark Museum website".
  14. ↑ http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/at-newark-airport-a-3-d-distraction/?_r=0
  15. ↑ State of the Arts (2014-03-28). "Newark in 3D | State of the Arts | Video | NJTV". Njtvonline.org. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  16. ↑ "NYCH website".
  17. ↑ "SI3D - Staten Island Museum website".
  18. ↑ "Watermark Film Conference - prweb".
  19. ↑ The newsletter of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities
  20. ↑ "NJIT: Features: The Theme of the TEDxNJIT Was Urban Renewal". Njit.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  21. ↑ "MacDowell Colony Index of MacDowell Fellows".

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