Mission
We want to improve the places we come from, make our city a place that fits the people who live in it, and reduce as much as possible social inequality and barriers to access to culture and education.
We want culture and cinema to be engines for improving neighbourhoods and for social as well as economic development.
In one of Europe's oldest countries, we want to give young people a voice and prove that change is possible.
History
Our story began more than 10 years ago, when we saved a historic cinema from demolition and conversion into apartments and parking. After more than 20 years of abandonment, we restored and returned to the city one of its meeting places.
Over two years of occupation we organized hundreds of free screenings, from arthouse cinema to football matches, and opened a study room open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to bring people – especially young people – back together in public spaces.
At the end of this self-managed experience, strengthened by its impact on the city, we founded an association and brought our screen to the square in front of Cinema America, a historic place in Trastevere. Here, for 11 years now, we have organized every summer a free outdoor retrospective festival called "Il Cinema in Piazza".
In 2021 we reopened another abandoned historic cinema, Cinema Troisi, Europe's first cinema open 24/7. Since that day the shutter on Via Induno has never been lowered again.
Piccolo America 2011–2021: the book that tells our first 10 years of history. A photographic volume of more than 450 pages covering the first decade of the experience, from the occupation of Cinema America to the inauguration of Cinema Troisi.
Team
General Director
