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2017 will mark a century from
the recording of what is histori-
cally considered the first Jazz re-
cord, but very few know that it
was recorded by Nick La Rocca,
a Sicilian emigrant to New Or-
leans. It sold a million and half
copies! Featuring interviews to
American music critics, histo-
rians and archivists, as well as
amazing archive picturing New
Orleans at the beginning of the
century, Sicily Jass tells that in-
credible story.
GENRE
: Arts&Culture, History,
Creative Doc
LENGTH
: 52’ / 75’
ASPECT RATIO
: 16:9
SHOOTING FORMAT
: HD
AUTHOR(S)
: Michele Cinque
DIRECTOR(S)
: Michele Cinque
PRODUCTION
: MRF5,
GA&A Production
PRODUCTION YEAR
: 2015
VERSION(S)
: English, Portuguese,
Italian
FESTIVALS&AWARDS:
Victoria Film
Festival 2017; London Jazz Festival 2017;
New Orleans International Film Festival
2016; Eindhoven Doc Feed 2016, MIMO
Festival Brazil 2016 – official selection ;
Taormina Film Festival 2016 ; Festival dei
Popoli 2015.
SICILY JASS – The world’s first man in Jazz
At the end of WW2, Nato’s
Gladio recruited and trained
civilians all over Europe. Their
mission: to halt an eventual
communist invasion from the
East. While the winds of a new
Cold War seem to blow again
over Europe, members of the
organization from Germany,
France, Italy, Belgium and Lu-
xembourg speak for the first
time.
GENRE
: History, Investigation
LENGTH
: 52’
ASPECT RATIO
: 16:9
SHOOTING FORMAT
: HD
AUTHOR(S)
: Lucio Mollica
DIRECTOR(S)
: Lucio Mollica
PRODUCTION
: GA&A Productions
in coproduction with TSR, Le film de
la Passerelle/RTBF, LCP e RTL Luxem-
bourg
PRODUCTION YEAR
: 2014
VERSION(S)
: Italian, English, French,
German, Dutch, Spanish
WE WERE GLADIO
