Tribeca Film Festival goers will be treated to an important history lesson this weekend in the form of a beautiful, moving short film made by director Marta Savina. Viola, Franca is the true story of a young Sicilian woman named Franca Viola who was raped and nearly forced to marry her attacker, which before the 1980s, was common place in Italy. Viola defied society and rebelled against this absurd practice by refusing to marry the young man. That defiance led to the law being abolished. In researching the details behind the making of this film, I thought it would be poignant to hand this story over to a young, ambitious Sicilian journalist Maria Ilenia Crifò Ceraolo who grew up near Viola's hometown. I interviewed Maria Ilenia back in 2015 when I reviewed Marco Turco's film about Oriana Fallaci . She gave a moving account of Fallaci and her legacy on women journalists, so I thought it would be fitting for her to review this story of female resistance so bea...
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