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These two films portray extraordinary Italian-American personalities and their remarkable contributions. 19 Arrests, No Convictions is a documentary portrait of George Farnsworth, an Italian-American bar owner with a fishy nightlife who redeems himself as a San Francisco Bay open-water swimmer. Farnsworth died in 1996 but retains his record as the oldest man to participate in the annual "New Year's Day Swim from Alcatraz." Director Judy Irving filmed George over the course of eight years.

These two films portray extraordinary Italian-American personalities and their remarkable contributions. 19 Arrests, No Convictions is a documentary portrait of George Farnsworth, an Italian-American bar owner with a fishy nightlife who redeems himself as a San Francisco Bay open-water swimmer. Farnsworth died in 1996 but retains his record as the oldest man to participate in the annual "New Year's Day Swim from Alcatraz." Director Judy Irving filmed George over the course of eight years.

A one-woman show sauteed with garlic and caramelized with humor. A self-proclaimed "good girl" who would get up at four in the morning to study for an exam while her rebellious younger sister was trying to sneak home from a date Baratta weaves a rich tapestry of her life in a traditional Italian household where food is love and becoming too Americanized is not necessarily a good thing. Taking on the personas of a variety of characters, Maria details her relationship with her parents and sister as she struggles to find her own unique identity amid personal upheavals in her life.

A one-woman show sauteed with garlic and caramelized with humor. A self-proclaimed "good girl" who would get up at four in the morning to study for an exam while her rebellious younger sister was trying to sneak home from a date Baratta weaves a rich tapestry of her life in a traditional Italian household where food is love and becoming too Americanized is not necessarily a good thing. Taking on the personas of a variety of characters, Maria details her relationship with her parents and sister as she struggles to find her own unique identity amid personal upheavals in her life.

A one-woman show sauteed with garlic and caramelized with humor. A self-proclaimed "good girl" who would get up at four in the morning to study for an exam while her rebellious younger sister was trying to sneak home from a date Baratta weaves a rich tapestry of her life in a traditional Italian household where food is love and becoming too Americanized is not necessarily a good thing. Taking on the personas of a variety of characters, Maria details her relationship with her parents and sister as she struggles to find her own unique identity amid personal upheavals in her life.