The Many Miracles of ‘Household Saints’

Screening
The Many Miracles of Household Saints
(2024 / Documentary / USA / 58 min.)

Written and Directed by
Martina Savoca-Guay

Starring
Vincent D’Onofrio, Jonathan Demme, Nancy Savoca, Richard Guay

A screening of the documentary, The Many Miracles of Household Saints by Martina Savoca-Guay. It tells the story of the making of the 1993 independent film Household Saints directed by Nancy Savoca. The movie covers Savoca’s creative process as well as her personal journey of making the movie while being pregnant and giving birth to Savoca-Guay in post-production. There will be a discussion after the film with Savoca-Guay, Savoca and Richard Guay. Moderated by Edvige Giunta.

In ENGLISH

Bios

​Martina Savoca-Guay has worked in the film and television industry for the past eleven years. She has worked in Production for companies such as Vice Media, Vayner Media, Killer Films Media and Scripps Network. Martina has also worked in post-production; Post Coordinating and Post Supervising for independent feature films. She is currently a producer-director at Synima, a UK company that creates commercial and educational content for the finance and health care industries. In addition to writing and directing two of her own independent short films, Martina has produced and directed two web series and a podcast for William Morris Endeavors, all of which were sponsored by Proctor & Gamble. Her first feature length effort is The Many Miracles of Household Saints, a film about the making of the 1993 independent film by Nancy Savoca. The film was released theatrically by Kino-Lorber.

Writer-Director Nancy Savoca’s first feature, True Love won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Her feature work includes Household Saints, Dogfight with River Phoenix and Lili Taylor, The 24 Hour Woman starring Rosie Perez (ALMA Nomination for Best Director). Her films have screened at festivals around the world and have been the subject of retrospectives at The Cinematheque Francaise, The Museum of the Moving Image and the Sydney International film Festival among others. she has received Independent Spirit Award nominations for writing and directing. Savoca’s television work includes Showtime’s Dirt, winner Best Director, LA Latino Film Festival nominee for Best Original Teleplay, Writer’s Guild of America and HBO’s If These Walls Could Talk starring Demi Moore, Sissy Spacek and Cher. The film garnered multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and was the most watched original HBO film of all time when it aired. Savoca was the co-recipient of New York Women in Film’s Lucy Award for her work on that film. This year, her first three feature films have been restored and re-released. The restoration of Household Saints premiered at The New York Film Festival.

Richard Guay is an independent producer, writer and consultant based in New York. He began his career as a CPA and has worked for four decades as a producer, writer, studio executive, assistant director, production manager, post-production supervisor and production accountant. True Love, Guay’s first producing effort which he also co-wrote, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. He has been nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards – two for Best Feature Film (True Love & Ghost Dog) and one for Best Screenplay (as co-writer of Household Saints). He was also nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Long Form Original Teleplay as co-writer of Dirt.  Guay has worked with a range of directors from first timers to industry veterans Nancy Savoca, Jonathan Demme, Bill Condon and Jim Jarmusch.

Edvige Giunta is Professor of English at New Jersey City University, where she teaches memoir and courses on women writers and immigrant literature and culture. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of six anthologies, including The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture and Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, recipient of the 2023 Susan Koppelman Awrad for Best Anthology in Feminist Studies in American and Popular Culture. Her memoirs, essays, poems, and interviews appear in anthologies, journals, and magazines and have been published in Italian translation. Talking to the Girls will be published in Italian translation by Iacobelli thanks to the generous support of Casa Italiana.