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In this interview, with movie director, documentarist, producer, and media arts advocate Helen De Michiel—widely praised for her film Tarantella (1995)—Fioretti asks a wide array of questions ranging from De Michiel’s thoughts about the evolution of filmmaking to her next projects and, last but not least, her Italian heritage.
Helen De Michiel, born in California to Italian parents, is a movie director, documentarist, producer, and media arts advocate. She works on social justice, environmental themes, and women’s rights. She directed the movie Tarantella (1995) and documentaries like Turn Here Sweet Corn (1990), The Gender Chip Project (2006), and the series Lunch, Love, Community (2014) about the evolution of school lunch reform in Berkeley. She is the founder of Thirty Leaves Production.
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Fioretti, D. (2024). Interview with Helen De Michiel. In: Fioretti, D., Orsitto, F. (eds) Italian Americans in Film and Other Media. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47211-4_18
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