Ciao America
 

Director: Frank Ciota
Screenplay: Joseph A. Ciota
Photography: Giulio Pietromarchi
Music: Andrea Morricone
Cast: Eddie Malavarca, Maurizio Nichetti, Nathaniel Marston, Violante Placido, Giancarlo Giannini, Paul Sorvino, Marco Basile, Vittorio Amendola, Vincenzo Amato, Pierpaolo Lovino, Umberto Franchini
Editing: Tia Schellstede
Production: Revere Productions - Urania Pictures - Mavex Productions
Year: 2002. Running Time: 100’
    
Shot entirely in Italy, Ciao America is the story of Lorenzo Primavera, an unsettled Italian American college graduate who travels to Italy to coach American football to a team of Italians in Italy’s fledgling American Football League. It is a league where everyone can kick but no one can catch. While coaching, Lorenzo meets and falls in love with Paola Angelini, a headstrong young music student who forces him to face the same decision as his immigrant grandfather some seventy years earlier. It is a decision, the outcome of which, will decide his very future. 
  
  
 
  

  

 

 

 

 

 
 
             
                

       
Frank Ciota
Frank Ciota
A graduate of Harvard University and a starring player on Harvard’s football team, Mr. Ciota studied filmmaking at New York University. His first film, the award-winning short film, Five 0’Cloch Shadow, marked his first collaboration with his brother Joseph who also wrote the script of Frank’s debut feature film, The North End premiered at the Montreal Film Festival. Frank used firsthand experience as a football coach in Italy to collaborate on the script for Ciao America.