Splendido! is a documentary short that explores the American Dream, it’s dark underbelly and the generational sacrifices it feeds off. Vinnie’s Italian Iron Works is a relic of Brooklyn’s industrial past. An operational workshop that has stood defiant for 63 years now surrounded by multi-million dollar brownstones in the heart of Cobble Hill as gentrification lurches to its front door. Now, aged 87, and after a lifetime of devotion to iron and his dream, owner Vinnie contemplates letting go.
Directed by Sophie Mager (USA)