2007
TRT: 60 min

Production format: 16mm

The Sweet New tells the story of changes in three generations of an Italian-American family: Emigration, Assimilation, Transition. Adapted from the stage script produced at the EXIT Theater, San Francisco.

Written & Directed by Raymond Rea
Director of Photography: Anders Yarborough
Art Direction: Lisa Roxanne Hyden Rivera
Sound: David Sandwisch
Gaffer: Joe Rivera
Continuity: Tony DeJesus
Music: Mark Nishimura

Furie: Catz Forsman
Leo: Don DeMico
Duci: Charlie Reaves
Vivian: Natalie Palan
Lorenzo: Damian Lanahan-Kalish
Jamie: Cassie Powell
Kyle: Jeremy Sawyer

Screenings:
Frameline Selection, Frameline at the Center, SF, CA
New Italian American Cinema, Frank D. Calandra Center for Italian-American Studies, Queens, NY