- Imagine 125 men carrying a five-ton, five-story, hand-sculptured tower and a 12- piece brass band - on their shoulders - dancing it through their neighborhood in tempo to joyous Italian folk songs! For 300 years in Italy, and the past century in communities throughout the greater New York area, this glorious ritual known as "The Dance of the Giglio" has been celebrated each summer with unbridled passion and devotion. This annual 65-foot-high moving monument to faith, folk-art and family honors a Roman Catholic Saint, San Paolino di Nola and his heroic act of sacrifice in the ancient Italian city of Nola in the year 409 A.D.
- Imagine 125 men carrying a five-ton, five-story, hand-sculptured tower and a 12- piece brass band - on their shoulders - dancing it through their neighborhood in tempo to joyous Italian folk songs! For 300 years in Italy, and the past century in communities throughout the greater New York area, this glorious ritual known as "The Dance of the Giglio" has been celebrated each summer with unbridled passion and devotion. This annual 65-foot-high moving monument to faith, folk-art and family honors a Roman Catholic Saint, San Paolino di Nola and his heroic act of sacrifice in the ancient Italian city of Nola in the year 409 A.D. "Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July" is a magnificent documentary. It is a passionate and loving portrait of the Italian community, done with great care and understanding. The film is really a labor of love, a tour de force, and above all a work of art." David Evanier, Renowned Author and Italian American Biographer Eighteen years in the making and lovingly edited from more than 140 hours of film footage. This heartwarming documentary is narrated by world-renowned actors John Turturro ("Barton Fink" & "Illuminata") and Michael Badalucco, Emmy Award-winning star of ABC's "The Practice." "Deep, sensitive and loving. Many of the performance were astounding." Bess Lomax Hawes, Founding Director Folk Arts Program It is an historic film that all the world should see - for if you look closely at the people's faces and each lifter's shining, & soulful eyes there is a sense of knowing that "Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July."
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