Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno

Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno are husband-and-wife filmmakers based in Newark, New Jersey, USA.[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 critically acclaimed films include the feature-length 3Rs trilogy of documentaries on urban America focusing on Newark:[3] Revolution '67[4] on the 1967 Newark riots/rebellion (2007); The Rule,[5] 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[6]) (2014); and Rust,[7] [8] [9] [10] on solutions to inner city poverty and racism (2021), all broadcast nationally on PBS,[11] [12] and released in theaters and on streaming platforms [13] [14] with companion Curriculum Guides for High Schools. Their Emmy-nominated documentary Mother-Tongue: Italian American Sons & Mothers featured Martin Scorsese, John Turturro, Rudy Giuliani and Pat DiNizio.[15]

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,[16] and installed at Newark Liberty International Airport from 2013 to 2014 as the airport's first art film;[17] The Brooklyn Waterfront in 3D, presented by the Museum of the City of New York in 2010;[18] and SI3D (Staten Island in 3D) commissioned and exhibited by the Staten Island Museum from 2015 to 2017.[19]

They created and hosted the Watermark (fiction film) Conference at Wingspread[20] and the Newark Poverty Reduction Conference at Rutgers University[21] and presented solutions to poverty at TEDxNJIT.[22]

Their inventive, feature-length documentary series American Women Saints: Elizabeth Ann Seton and Frances Xavier Cabrini (2024), on the iconic saints Elizabeth Ann Seton and Frances Xavier Cabrini, is broadcast nationally on PBS.

The Bongiornos were recipients of film fellowships at the MacDowell Colony,[23] Ledig House Art Omi, and Wildacres.

Fictional films

  • Love & Arguments (2011-): twenty one short films inspired by classic literature and current events. [24] [25]
  • The Black Monk (2017): Anton Chekhov-inspired, feature-length film being used to teach psychosis in medical schools [26] and literary adaption in universities.
  • Hearing Voices (2018) and Columbus on Trial (2019): a series of short films depicting the ghosts of historical figures returning to our modern world to confront their complicated legacies. [27] [28] [29]
  • Our Return to Italy (2023): a short film about a New Jersey, multigenerational, winemaking family that decides to uproot to the motherland. [30]
  • La Storia D’Amore Siciliana di Chiara; Lasciando La Sicilia; Palermo: Amore e Fontane; Palermo: Amore e Cannoli; and Amore nel Sannio (2024-2025): a series of short films, in Italian, celebrating the culture of Southern Italy. [31] [32]

References

  1. ^ Rule Makers (22 May 2014). "Rule Makers". Radius-magazine.info. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Sony |". Pro.sony.com. Archived from the original on 23 February 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Rutgers newsletter".
  4. ^ "Revolution '67 - The Leonard Lopate Show". WNYC. 10 July 2007. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  5. ^ "The Rule: Film Review". Hollywood Reporter. 4 September 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
    - "The Rule". PBS film website. Archived from the original on 2017-09-08. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
  6. ^ "ed blog". U.S. Department of Education. Archived from the original on 2016-03-31.
  7. ^ "nj.com". 9 September 2014.
  8. ^ "WBGO Journal presents: RUST: Newark Filmmakers Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno's Third Doc on Urban America".
  9. ^ "The Newark Museum presents: Rust".
  10. ^ "NJPAC and PSEG true diversity film series presents: RUST - economic justice: poverty, injustice and racism".
  11. ^ "Revolution '67". ITVS. 10 July 2007. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
    - Bongiorno, Marylou. "The Rule". PBS. Archived from the original on 2017-05-10. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  12. ^ "KTWU/PBS presents:Revolution '67 and The Rule".
  13. ^ "Kanopy presents:Revolution '67".
  14. ^ "Kanopy presents:The Rule".
  15. ^ "52a Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema | Mother-Tongue: Italian American Sons & Mothers". Pesarofilmfest.it. 21 June 2007. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  16. ^ "Newark Museum podcast". YouTube. 4 September 2009.
    - "New Work: Newark in 3D". Newark Museum website. Archived from the original on 2016-03-19. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  17. ^ Jennifer Schuessler (1 January 2014), "At Newark Airport, a 3-D Distraction", New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
    - "State of the Arts - Newark in 3D". Njtvonline.org. 28 March 2014. Archived from the original on 22 February 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  18. ^ "NYCH website". Archived from the original on 2016-05-08. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  19. ^ "SI3D". Staten Island Museum website.
  20. ^ "Watermark Film Conference". prweb. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016.
  21. ^ The newsletter of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities Archived 2017-05-10 at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ "The Theme of the TEDxNJIT Was Urban Renewal". Njit.edu. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  23. ^ "MacDowell Colony Index of MacDowell Fellows". Archived from the original on 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  24. ^ "Montclair Film: Illuminations: Short Films of Discovery".
  25. ^ "Montclair's Cinema505 Screens "Illuminations: Short Films of Discovery"".
  26. ^ Glass, Guy. "The Black Monk". NYU School of Medicine. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  27. ^ "Tap into Newark: Hearing Voices: A Film by Marylou & Jerome Bongiorno – Free Screening & DiscussionMontclair Film".
  28. ^ "La Voce di New York: Columbus On Trial": Imagines a Clash btw Columbus and Washington's Confidante".
  29. ^ "Smithsonian: Columbus on Trial: Act 48 program for teachers - August 4, 2021".
  30. ^ "Casa Italiano: Our Return to Italy".
  31. ^ "Italian Cultural Institute in New York"Wine and Motherland" – A double event of the series "Ingredients"".
  32. ^ "The Coccia Institute & National Organization of Italian American Women (NOIAW) presents:"Amore in Southern Italy"".
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