Jersey City – All are invited to The Pope Lecture Hall on Friday, 10/12/07 at 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. and 12:30 – 2 p.m. to view screen clips and listen to award-winning filmmakers and Saint Peter’s College graduates, Marylou Tibaldo and Jerome Bongiorno, Class of ’84, discuss their documentary film, Revolution ’67. The film premiered this summer at the Newark Film Festival and nationally on PBS.
The husband-and-wife team’s production company, Bongiorno Productions, has also produced the Emmy-nominated documentary, Mother Tongue: Italian American Sons and Mothers, featuring Martin Scorsese, which was screened at the 2006 Venice Film Festival.
Saint Peter’s College President Eugene J. Cornacchia, Ph.D., will introduce the filmmakers at the 11 a.m. presentation.
This program is sponsored by the Departments of Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Social Justice Program. Faculty who wish to bring their classes should contact Dr. David Surrey for a copy of the Revolution ’67 film to show their classes before coming to the event.
Saint Peter’s College is the Jesuit College of New Jersey. Founded in 1872, Saint
Peter’s has an enrollment of approximately 3,000 students in undergraduate and
graduate programs. The main campus is located in Jersey City. The College has a
branch campus for adults in Englewood Cliffs, NJ and also offers courses at various
corporate sites at the Jersey City waterfront and in South Amboy, NJ.
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