Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno are husband-and-wife filmmakers based in

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. Jerome is a cinematographer, editor, animator and screenwriter. Their award winning films include the 3Rs trilogy of documentaries on urban America: ''

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'' on the

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/rebellion; '' The Rule'', on the highly successful urban school model of

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and

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(screened by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans at the

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), both broadcast nationally on

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, and ''

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'', on solutions to inner city poverty. Their Emmy-nominated documentary '' Mother-Tongue: Italian American Sons & Mothers'' featured

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, John Turturro,

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and Pat DiNizio. The Bongiornos' museum installations in 3D are '' New Work: Art in 3D'' which began with '' Newark in 3D'', commissioned and exhibited by the

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from 2009 to 2010 and reinstalled in 2016, and installed at

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from 2013 to 2014 as the airport's first art film; '' The Brooklyn Waterfront in 3D'', presented by the

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in 2010; and '' SI3D'' (Staten Island in 3D) commissioned and exhibited by the Staten Island Museum from 2015 to 2017. They created and hosted the ''

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'' Conference at

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and the Newark Poverty Reduction Conference at

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and presented solutions to poverty at TEDxNJIT. The Bongiornos were recipients of film fellowships at the MacDowell Colony.

Fictional films

*''The Black Monk'': a Chekhov inspired feature, is being used to teach psychosis in medical schools.

Fictional films

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