AGBO and the Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA) have named the 2026 grant recipients for the Russo Brothers Italian American Filmmaker Forum (RBIAFF). Five filmmakers were each awarded a $10,000 production grant to produce a short film based on an original concept that explores the Italian American experience.
The 2026 grant recipients and the concepts of their films were:
ALL ABOUT CLAIRE directed by Davide Fiore (California)
Logline: Among forgotten boxes in a dead neighbor’s basement, a filmmaker unearths the buried legacy of Claire Giannini Hoffman, an Italian-American woman so trusted by U.S. Presidents she represented American banking abroad, yet so thoroughly erased that history never whispered her name. Some silences are not accidents.
DUE VENTI (TWO WINDS) directed by Veronica Maccari (California)
Logline: When a former Italian champion sailor returns to Lake Como after becoming a U.S. citizen, she enters a local regatta to prove she
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