A memoir by Sal Mallimo
Piccolo Santino
Some childhoods never truly leave us. They wait within us, until one day we find the voice to tell the story.
The Life I learned withPiccolo Santino-My Italian Childhood
13Books on AmazonA collection available to readers
13Completed ScreenplaysRegistered with the WGA
🏆 Award Winner Episode 7 at Manhattan International Screenplay Awards by CINEVERSE,
Austin, Texas
The books and screenplays represent a substantial creative undertaking, offering prospective producers and production partners an opportunity to explore the project's potential for television or streaming adaptation.
Discover the Prequel
Before Piccolo Santino's childhood there was Bartolo's story.
An Italian soldier caught in the turmoil of WW II, Bartolo endured a harrowing experience of captivity inside a Russian POW Camp. His story reaches into a difficult chapter of history, exploring the hardships, struggles, and human experiences that shaped his life long before the childhood memories recounted in Piccolo Santino.
A powerful prequel rooted in history, family, sacrifice, and the enduring spirit, Bartolo's Story opens another window into the world behind the Piccolo Santino saga.
Bartolo's Story: Before Piccolo Santino has also been developed as a screenplay and registered with the Writers Guild of America (WGA), making it an additional completed writing project available for consideration by prospective producers and production partners.
🏆 Finalist in the Cambridge Script Festival
Cambridge
Pier 84, New York, July 5, 1958
The story
Santino’s earliest years hold the humor, hardship, family ties, and private ambitions of a boy growing up in postwar southern Italy. When his family reaches America, a new world asks him to find his own way through it.
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J' aimé ces souvenirs de l' enfance de l' auteur dans une Italie juste après la guerre et sa plongée brutale dans le Nouveau Monde . Ce livre est mieux qu' un roman , sincère et véritable .
jacques de Lavareille
Reviewed in Canada on September 21, 2020
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“The book’s portrait of family, and migration is irresistible. Audiences here loved the combination of humor and pain.”
Li Hua, Programming Director
Beijing Cultural Exchange Forum
An extraordinary work of art…yes, a must read! Poignant, tender, painting life with words that are colorful, personal and immediately draw you in. For me the imagery has elements of Magical Realism, as we experience childhood through the eyes of young Santino. We become Santino. And, drink of the Italian countryside, traditions in flux, culture ever evolving and family. The book is universal in its scope of time and place, of the trials and tribulations of growing up. Spellbinding in its descriptions. So much heart and soul poured into each page. To know Santino is to love Santino.
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