ABOUT SI3D: Having lived on Lighthouse Hill in Staten Island for
many years while growing up, I was eager to return with my wife, as filmmakers, to capture a city symphony of historically important vistas - in 3D! After traversing the terrain, we became aware that this island should have been preserved as a park, not transformed into a parking lot. What could have mirrored Cape Cod as a “get-away” from Manhattan, instead became a “give-away” for haphazard development. And yet, despite the abuse and misuse - the Moses-imposed highways and towering mounds of garbage piled as high as the Statue of Liberty - Staten Island, resilient, remains a gem, with its richness of history, still majestic mountainous landscape, architectural treasures, cultural and religious enclaves, cinematic coastline, marshes and, of course, its people.
Marylou & Jerome Bongiorno