Filming has begun in New York for Il Newyorkese – A New York Story, a romantic comedy written and directed by Davide Ippolito, founder of ilNewyorkese, the newspaper dedicated to Italians in New York. The film is not simply based on the newspaper as a brand. It starts from the world the newspaper has been covering for years: Italians who arrive in the United States, build a life there, and eventually have to understand what it really means to stay.
The project is also relevant for GoodMorningItaly because it tells an Italian story abroad without treating emigration only as nostalgia or success. The Italian presence in the United States is often described through restaurants, family memories, or individual achievements. This film seems to look at a quieter part of that experience: the daily choices, the distance from home, the relationships that make a foreign city feel less foreign.
The film is executive produced by Ippolito, Simone D’Andria and Emanuele Scamardella for N41 Studios. The team has already worked on projects between Italy and the United States, including Final Broadcast, released in American cinemas, and The Perfect Pitch, a series broadcast on Mediaset. The set also includes Mattia Panico as production coordinator and William Santero as director of photography. Ippolito had already brought New York to the screen with New York Solo Andata, a 2023 film available on Prime Video, focused on the arrival in the city and on the idea of America as a place of possibility.
Il Newyorkese – A New York Story appears to begin after that first arrival. The plot has not yet been made public, but the production has said the film will not simply be about the American dream. Its focus will be what happens later: staying, building a life far from Italy, dealing with loneliness, and turning a city that was once imagined from a distance into an ordinary place where one lives, works and makes compromises.
The cast includes Alice Lussiana Parente and Marco Fanizzi. Lussiana Parente was born in Turin and has worked for years in the United States. She trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, was part of the resident company at the Flea Theater, dubbed for Disney and Audible, and lent her voice to Ron Howard’s documentary Pavarotti. Fanizzi was born in Taranto and trained at the Silvio d’Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome. He won the Premio Hystrio alla Vocazione in 2019 and the Premio Gigi Proietti for best male performer in 2025. The music will be composed by Cristiano Cosa, who had already written the themes for New York Solo Andata and Final Broadcast. Blues guitarist and composer Davide Pannozzo will also appear in a cameo. Filming will continue in the coming weeks, between recognizable New York locations and less tourist-facing parts of the city, where the Italian experience in America can be shown without turning it into a postcard.
