How a family of migrants has overcome geographical distance

Director Alessia Scarso will talk about her documentary project (working title: La Spartenza) at the Diaspore Italiane conference in Melbourne.

Director Alessia Scarso's new documentary will focus on the story of her family's migration Source: courtesy of Alessia Scarso

Italian filmmaker Alessia Scarso is working on a new project based on her family: half of her grandparents' eight children emigrated from Sicily to Australia in the 1950s. To keep in touch with each other, they didn’t just write letters or make telephone calls, but they shot videos sending them from one side of the world to the other to show baptisms, weddings, funerals, anniversaries. This footage is at the core of Alessia's documentary, which narrates 60 years of long distance family relations, from super8 to Skype calls.

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