Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno are husband-and-wife
filmmakers based in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Marylou is a producer,
director and screenwriter who received her MFA from the graduate film
program at New York University. Jerome is a cinematographer, editor,
animator and screenwriter.Their award winning films include the 3Rs
trilogy of documentaries on urban America: Revolution '67 on the 1967
Newark riots/rebellion; The Rule, on the highly successful urban
school model of Newark Abbey and Saint Benedict's Preparatory School
(screened by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for
African Americans at the U.S. Department of Education), both broadcast
nationally on PBS, and Rust, on solutions to inner city poverty. Their
Emmy-nominated documentary Mother-Tongue: Italian American Sons &
Mothers featured Martin Scorsese, John Turturro, Rudy Giuliani and Pat
DiNizio.The Bongiornos' museum installations in 3D are New Work: Art
in 3D which began with Newark in 3D, commissioned and exhibited by the
Newark Museum from 2009 to 2010 and reinstalled in 2016, and installed
at Newark Liberty International Airport from 2013 to 2014 as the
airport's first art film; The Brooklyn Waterfront in 3D, presented by
the Museum of the City of New York in 2010; and SI3D (Staten Island in
3D) commissioned and exhibited by the Staten Island Museum from 2015
to 2017.They created and hosted the Watermark (fiction film)
Conference at Wingspread and the Newark Poverty Reduction Conference
at Rutgers University and presented solutions to poverty at TEDxNJIT.
filmmakers based in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Marylou is a producer,
director and screenwriter who received her MFA from the graduate film
program at New York University. Jerome is a cinematographer, editor,
animator and screenwriter.Their award winning films include the 3Rs
trilogy of documentaries on urban America: Revolution '67 on the 1967
Newark riots/rebellion; The Rule, on the highly successful urban
school model of Newark Abbey and Saint Benedict's Preparatory School
(screened by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for
African Americans at the U.S. Department of Education), both broadcast
nationally on PBS, and Rust, on solutions to inner city poverty. Their
Emmy-nominated documentary Mother-Tongue: Italian American Sons &
Mothers featured Martin Scorsese, John Turturro, Rudy Giuliani and Pat
DiNizio.The Bongiornos' museum installations in 3D are New Work: Art
in 3D which began with Newark in 3D, commissioned and exhibited by the
Newark Museum from 2009 to 2010 and reinstalled in 2016, and installed
at Newark Liberty International Airport from 2013 to 2014 as the
airport's first art film; The Brooklyn Waterfront in 3D, presented by
the Museum of the City of New York in 2010; and SI3D (Staten Island in
3D) commissioned and exhibited by the Staten Island Museum from 2015
to 2017.They created and hosted the Watermark (fiction film)
Conference at Wingspread and the Newark Poverty Reduction Conference
at Rutgers University and presented solutions to poverty at TEDxNJIT.
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