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Nancy Schiesari is a renowned filmmaker who has spent over half of her life working as an artist, cinematographer, and teacher. Her interest in the Italian Resistance has been life-long, beginning as a child, growing up listening to her parent’s stories. As a first generation American, she was born into a “twilight zone” between her parents’ tumultuous Italian past and the American culture of the late 1950’s; and raised in a family of immigrants whose lives were defined by WW II. Her three aunts were partisans in the hills of Tuscany where they fought the German Nazis and Italian Fascists. Her father, a young doctor, was drafted into the Italian Army to minister to the wounded on the Yugoslavian and Albanian fronts. When Mussolini was overthrown, he refused to fight on the Axis side and spent the last two years of the war in a German concentration camp with Russian and Italian P.O.W.'s.
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