Left:  Letty Serra and Jon Freda, co-writers of the screenplay Say Nothing, which won the Italian American Heritage Award, as well as the Best Full-length Screenplay Award.

Above:  Frank Monteleone (producer) and John Monteleone (writer/director) with GIAA President Carlo Fiorletta.  Valley of the Moon won Best Movie as well as the Sunday Audience Favorite Award.

Above:  Tessa Papas (producer) and Heather Harlow (writer/director) of Nous Deux Encore, which won the Best Foreign Language Documentary and Saturday Afternoon Audience Favorite Awards.

Left:  Heather Harlow, Lev Polyakov, and Vladimir de Fontenay answer audience questions at the conclusion of Saturday afternoon’s screening.

Marta Garcia Larriu (producer) and Jaime Dezcallar (writer/director) of The Last Moments of Leopoldo Berenguer, which received the Best Director Award as well as Saturday Night’s Audience Favorite Award.  At right is GIAA Councilor Debbie Klaar.

Showing off their GIAA Fest hats:  Suzanne Sitelman of Norman Normal:  A Modern Metamorphosis (winner, Best Mixed Media) and GIAA President Carlo Fiorletta

Left:  Anthology Film Archives at Second Ave and 2nd St. in Manhattan, where we have held the GIAA Fest for the past 3 years.  Photo courtesy of Jennifer Benvenuto.

Above:  GIAA President Carlo Fiorletta, filmmaker John Salvatore, and festival director Mara Lesemann.  Photo by Jennifer Benvenuto.

Above:  GIAA’s Alyson Linefsky with filmmaker Terence Morea

Left:  Screenplay award winner James Kirtland