Marylou & Jerome Bongiorno are Emmy-nominated, award-winning, husband-and-wife filmmakers who create cutting-edge documentary, fiction, and museum installation art films that are widely distributed, including through national PBS. The Bongiornos film extensively in Newark, NJ, their home city. They are the recipients of major prizes, grants, and fellowships. Also, the Bongiornos were featured on a TEDxNJIT talk in 2015: “Reduce Poverty in Inner Cities.”