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HISTORY
2017 marked a century from the
recording of what is historically
considered the first jazz record, but
very few know that it was recor-
ded by a Sicilian emigrant to New
Orleans: Nick La Rocca. The record
sold a million and half copies. Fe-
aturing exclusive interviews to
American music critics, historians
and archivists, as well as amazing
archive picturing New Orleans at
the beginning of the century, Sicily
Jass takes us on a journey through
music and history, telling the story
of the world’s first man in jazz.
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 - of-
ficial selection; Taormina Film Festival
2016; Festival dei Popoli 2015.
SICILY JASS – The world’s first man in Jazz
This is the story of the biggest jet-
set love scandal of all times, starring
Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman,
Anna Magnani and the primitive natu-
re of the Aeolian Islands. The islands
are at the same time the set for the
movie Vulcano with Anna Magnani,
who has just been abandoned by di-
rector Roberto Rossellini, and for the
movie “Stromboli, Terra di Dio” that
will lead to the artistic and love rela-
tionship between Ingrid Bergman and
Rossellini. “The War of the Volcano-
es” is a story of wrath, suffering and
love and at the same time the story of
Stromboli a God-forgotten land, that,
for the time of the filming, becomes
the center of the world.
GENRE:
Archives, History,
Arts&Culture
LENGTH:
52’
ASPECT RATIO:
16:9
SHOOTING FORMAT:
HD
AUTHOR(S):
Chiara Laudani,
Francesco Patierno
DIRECTOR(S):
Francesco Patierno
PRODUCTION:
Todos Contentos y yo
Tambien, in collaboration with RAI
Cinema and Cinecittà-Luce
PRODUCTION YEAR:
2012
VERSION(S):
English, French, Italian
FESTIVALS&AWARDS:
Venice Film
Festival 2012, Toronto Film Festival
2012; BFI – London Film Festival
2012; Festival International de Cine
de Guagalajara 2015; FIPA Festival
International du Film sur l’Art 2014.
BERGMAN & MAGNANI – THE WAR OF VOLCANOES
