Yes Chef
Written and directed by Amy Campione
An award-winning chef who has mastered everything in her kitchen except the question of who she is.
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Now streamingShort films from two of AGBO’s filmmaker programs
They were made for a grant, or in forty-eight hours. Now they have somewhere to live. Films from the Russo Brothers Italian American Filmmaker Forum and No Sleep ’til Film Fest, streaming in full on PREVO.
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Where they came from
One gives a filmmaker money and a year. The other gives them a prompt and a weekend. Both are AGBO’s, and both are how these films were first seen.
The Forum
A grant program run by AGBO with the Italian Sons and Daughters of America. It funds short films about the Italian American experience, and the finished films screen as the Forum’s Official Selection.
The Fest
AGBO’s 48-hour filmmaking competition. A prompt is announced, and filmmakers anywhere in the world have two days to write, shoot and cut a film of three minutes or less. Thousands enter, from more than sixty countries.
The programs are AGBO’s. The films belong to the people who made them, and PREVO licenses each one directly from its filmmaker. Every credit on this page is the one its program gave it.
The films
Funded by a grant and made over a year. Longer, quieter and about where a family came from.
Written and directed by Amy Campione
An award-winning chef who has mastered everything in her kitchen except the question of who she is.
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Directed by Alessia Crucitelli
Produced by Andrew James Levay
New York, the 1910s. Marina, an Italian immigrant, works the floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory – a mother, a wife, a worker, and above all a woman.
A Santa Monica College Film Program production. © Santa Monica College Film Program.
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Written and directed by Joe Picozzi
A proud Italian American takes a DNA test, finds out he is not Italian at all, and spirals. His grandfather, also Joe Picozzi, plays a lead.
Watch on PREVOWritten, shot and cut inside forty-eight hours, to a prompt, in three minutes or less. Then chosen out of thousands.
Directed by Tony Arriola, Steven Kiefer and Mikkel Aranas
Sons of Summer
A man keeps buying lottery tickets from the same elderly cashier. It looks like a habit. He is buying time. In Korean and English.
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Written and directed by Tommy Heffernan
A wedding photographer and a mobster have an engagement shoot to get through and a body to keep out of frame.
Watch on PREVOWritten and directed by Darren Hinchy
Amy leaves home for college and lives her first year through her phone, which is a very good way to avoid her mother – until it isn’t.
Watch on PREVOAfter the laurels
A short gets its moment at the program that chose it, and then it needs somewhere to be found. PREVO is a streaming service built for independent short film: every film chosen by our team, every filmmaker paid, every film with its own page, on the web and in the apps.
Forum & Fest
The Russo Brothers Italian American Filmmaker Forum and No Sleep ’til Film Fest are programs of AGBO. The Official Selection laurels are AGBO’s and appear here for the films they were awarded to. Each film is licensed to PREVO by its filmmaker.
Leaving the Factory © Santa Monica College Film Program.