Members of the music Americana band Mebanesville will back up Michela Musolino as she opens an evening of music, film and discussion in Elon’s Yeager Recital Hall at 7 p.m., Monday, April 16, featuring Anthony Fragola’s new documentary film Un ricordo belissimo / A Beautiful Memory. Un bellissimo ricordo examines the life, death and legacy of Giuseppe “Peppino” Impastato (1948 – 1978), an anti-mafia youth activist and Sicilian radio personality, murdered by the mafia in May 1978. The film features inspiring conversations and guided tours of the landscape of Peppino’s life by his surviving younger brother, Giovanni Impastato, as well as the last recorded interviews of their passionate, anti-mafia mother, the late Felicia Bartolotta Impastato (1916 – 2004).
In addition to Ms. Musolino, Peppino Impastato’s surviving younger brother, Giovanni Impastato, will be present to bring his impassioned message about reducing social violence, from Palermo, Sicily to Piedmont North Carolina, as well as Anthony Fragola, the film maker, Anthony Vitti, film scholar from Wake Forest, Ben Lawton, film scholar from Purdue University, and Daniela Orlandi, visiting professor of Italian at Elon University.
Elon’s own J. McMerty shares major credit for the film, as he handled all of the film’s editing.
For an interview with Anthony Fragola about the film, visit www.gotriadscene.com/index.php?app=eventDetail&id=2334
For more information about Ms. Musolino, visit www.MichelaMusolino.com
For more information about Mebanesville, visit www.Mebanesville.com
For images of some of the evenings participants, visit www.zvents.com/events/show/1134655-Mebanesville-Musolino-Fragola-Impastato-A-Beautiful-Memory-Memory-Image-and-Music-Confront-the-Modern-Mafia