Director:		Adriana Trigiani
Year:		1996
Language:		English
Time:		75 minutes

This documentary presents facets of life among an Italian immigrant community in Roseto, Pennsylvania. The Big Time is the annual festival honoring the town's patron saint, Our Lady of Mt Carmel. The film centers on the 100th anniversary of the festival, including the procession teenage princesses, the crowning of the new queen and all the living queens of the past.

This is a special Monday night presentation as part of the Shepherd University Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence Program.

Not rated.

Post-film discussion led by Dr. Heidi Hanrahan.

Links

About the director, Adriana Trigiani.

An interview with Adriana Trigiani.

Adriana Trigiani's own website.

About the Shepherd University Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence program.