Key Image: The Funk Off Band, an energetic jazz-in-the-street
marching band during the Umbria Jazz Festival, 2024–25.
Umbria Jazz Feast — a Documentary Film
PREMIERE
Directed by Alberto Guerri (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
/ National Film School, Rome, Italy) and
Professor Pierpaolo Polzonetti (UC Davis)
What happens when Italian cuisine and wine are paired with
global African music and served in a Medieval piazza in central
Italy populated by local people, tourists, and migrants from
the Global South? “Umbria Jazz Feast” is a research
project that investigates multisensorial intersections during
the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. It
presents a new look at this festival by addressing the
question: how is jazz perceived as part of a new global
identity intersecting with local and global cuisine, art, and
culture?
Free
Umbria Jazz Feast is made possible by the generous support of
the Eivind G. Lange ’77 and Mary G. Puma Engagement and
Research in Italy Fund at the National Film School, Rome,
Italy. At UC Davis, additional support was given by a Seed
Grant for International Activities from Global Affairs as well as
the College of Letters and Science and the Department of
Music.
