Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno

Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno are husband-and-wife filmmakers based in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

[1] Marylou is a producer, director and screenwriter who received her MFA from the graduate film program at New York University.

[2] Their award winning films include the 3Rs trilogy of documentaries on urban America:[3] Revolution '67[4] on the 1967 Newark riots/rebellion; The Rule,[5] on the highly successful urban school model of Newark Abbey and Saint Benedict's Preparatory School (screened by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans at the U.S. Department of Education[6]), both broadcast nationally on PBS,[7] and Rust,[8] on solutions to inner city poverty.

Their Emmy-nominated documentary Mother-Tongue: Italian American Sons & Mothers featured Martin Scorsese, John Turturro, Rudy Giuliani and Pat DiNizio.

[13] They created and hosted the Watermark (fiction film) Conference at Wingspread[14] and the Newark Poverty Reduction Conference at Rutgers University[15] and presented solutions to poverty at TEDxNJIT.