{"id":209,"date":"2014-07-21T18:56:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T22:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2017-07-04T15:52:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T19:52:27","slug":"our-sicily-far-from-the-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/our-sicily-far-from-the-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Sicily Far From the Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were recently featured in a newspaper article story<\/a> by Mariella Caruso<\/a> about the making of our film Inheritance, Italian Style<\/em>, by the Italian newspaper, La Sicilia<\/em>, which has a print circulation of 30,000, second largest in Sicily. An English translation by me is below, and you can read the Italian version here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Article<\/a>
“Our Sicily Far from the Stereotypes”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Newspaper \u201cLa Sicilia,\u201d Entertainment, Feb. 4, 2014. (2nd largest circulation newspaper in Sicily)
\n[headline] \u201cOur Sicily Far From the Stereotypes: From Atlanta a film about \u2018Inheritance, Italian Style\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

[sub-headline] \u201cThe return of an emigrant to Milazzo for the division of the family art and furniture.\u201d
\nBy Mariella Caruso (Milan) [photo caption] \u201cThe film was shot in Catania (sic) \u2018It\u2019s in the catalogue for the Berlin Film Festivale and we hope to be able to bring it to Taormina [film festival].\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

[text of article correctly states some footage was shot in Catania but that the bulk of it was in the villa of the producers in Atlanta]<\/p>\n

Photo caption: Some images from the film \u201cInheritance, Italian Style\u201d (Eredit\u00e0 in stile Italiano), whose original title was \u201cCatania The Movie,\u201d the first film of Doug Bremner. A disastrous reunion for the division of the family things when the members of the Vaccarino family get together in Milazzo, including Viola, age 55, who has lived for 20 years in Atlanta, and is married to Doug Bremner.<\/p>\n

Troublesome was a reunion for the division of the family things. A reunion a few years ago that brought together the members of the Vaccarino family at the home of their parents in Milazzo (Sicily), who today are still alive and well, in order to organize the division of the family property. Amongst them was Viola, 55 years old, who for the past 20 years has lived in Atlanta where she heads the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University, with her husband, Doug, a psychiatrist who is also a filmmaker, and their children Sabina, 21, and Dylan, 16. It was this family reunion that inspired the screenplay for Inheritance, Italian Style or in Italian Eredit\u00e0 in stile italiano whose original title was Catania! that became a film that was the first work of Doug Bremner, and that could this summer embark on one of the many film festivals that punctuate the summer of Sicily.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us this was the realization of a dream,\u201d related Viola Vaccarino via Skype from Atlanta, the executive producer of the family\u2019s film that cost one million dollars to produce. \u201cIt was difficult as we had to use our savings and raise the rest of the money from crowd funding using a web site that specialized in films,\u201d underlining the fact that the Bremner family did not want to invest too much in the film, \u201cbut it was fun because it involved our entire family. Doug wrote the screenplay and directed the movie, I was the executive producer, Sabina was the production designer, and Dylan was one of the actors.\u201d<\/p>\n