Armand Assante To Narrate Documentary Feature ‘The Streets of Little Italy: 100 Years Of San Gennaro’
Armand Assante has joined the feature documentary *The Streets of Little Italy: 100 Years of San Gennaro* as narrator. The film will chart how a small immigrant religious procession on Manhattan’s Mulberry Street became the best-known and most heavily attended Italian feast, preserving the tradition’s cultural and spiritual significance for future generations.
Directed by Paul Borghese and produced by CIAO USA with feast organiser Figli di San Gennaro, Inc., the documentary is currently in production. Filming has taken place in Naples, Benevento and Pozzuoli, and will continue in New York during the centenary Feast of San Gennaro, running from 17 to 27 September; it will use archival material, interviews and coverage of the celebration.
- Armand Assante will narrate a San Gennaro centenary documentary.
- The film explores Little Italy’s century-old Italian-American tradition.
- Filming continues during September’s feast on Mulberry Street.