PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Ascanio Petrini and Pasquale Donatone, director and actor of the film Tony Driver.
Director Ascanio Petrini and Pasquale Donatone are respectively the director and the actor/protagonist of Tony Driver, this amazing story that fuses documentary and fiction to tell the unique story of Tony/Pasquale and his fight to go back to his real homeland: the USA.
Tony Driver: One day, Pasquale decides to change his name and to be called Tony. Because despite being born in Bari in the mid 60s, he crosses the ocean with his family at 9 years of age and grows up as a real American. He becomes a taxi driver in Yuma, but he is arrested due to his “side job”: carrying illegal immigrants to the US through the Mexican border. He is therefore forced to choose: jail in Arizona or deportation to Italy. Once back in the region of Puglia, he finds himself living alone in a cave in Polignano a Mare, looking at Italy as a small, stuck country, with no opportunities and without dreams. But Tony is not willing to surrender…
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