Episode #27 - Filmmaker, Jason Baffa, has been involved in the Arts for over 30 years.  He received his first super 8mm camera at age seven and chose an early career path towards film and television production.

In 2014, Baffa completed his newest feature documentary, BELLA VITA.  The film has won Best Picture, Best Cinematography and Audience Choice Awards in 12 festivals spanning 4 continents.  Mid-week News called it, “A cinematic tour de force” and the London Arts News stated, “a stunning piece of visual art.”

Through the 90’s Baffa worked at New World Entertainment in their development department which was partnered with Fox Studios, Steven J. Cannell Productions and Marvel Entertainment.  His love of surfing, led him to the role of Show Producer on Fox Sport’s Bluetorch TV.  There, he contributed to over 167 hours of programming in 18 months and helped launch this first, daily action-sports magazine show.

In late 2001, he left Bluetorch to pursue his career as an independent filmmaker.  The decision produced three internationally acclaimed feature documentaries that the surfing community has labeled, “modern classics.”

The first, the 2004 release, “Singlefin: yellow.”  Described by Variety as, “The Red Violin meets The Endless Summer.”  A solo effort with one Bolex 16mm film camera and some help from Water DP, Scott Kassenoff, the film tells the story of one yellow surfboard as shared across the globe by a group of friends.

By late 2004, Baffa had teamed up with long time friend, Mark Jeremias, to co-direct and d.p. his second effort, “One California Day,” under the Build Worldwide label.  The four year, Super 16mm collaboration was released in late 2008 and was described as “visually stunning” by Yahoo News.  The film explores California surf culture, yesterday, today and tomorrow.

‘Bella Vita”, “One California Day” and “Singlefin: yellow” all enjoyed a limited theatrical release throughout the world and are available on DVD home video, VOD and  iTunes.

Baffa’s recent focus has been on developing new theatrical projects and commercial directing.   His work as both director, cinematographer and editor encompass various globe-trotting projects including work for Patagonia Clothing,  Samsung, BMW, Ford, Kashi, SPY sunglasses, Oakley, Fox Sports, Miramax Studios, Pabst Brewing and Pacifico Beer.  He is the owner of his own wine label, ZIOBAFFA and is represented for commercial work by Venice CA based, Farm League Productions.

bellavitafilm.com jasonbaffafilms.com ziobaffa.com poggioalcasone.com castelwine.com

thesurfnetwork.com

Facebook (Bella Vita):  https://www.facebook.com/BellaVitaFilm Instagram (Bella Vita):  https://instagram.com/bellavitafilm/

Instagram (Jason Baffa): https://instagram.com/jasonbaffafilms/

HASHTAGS: #bellavitafilm #bellavitafilmmoments #ziobaffa #onecaliforniaday #singlefinyellow #fatboysurfcamp   ONE BEACH, movie

https://youtu.be/yP-GXSryNKs

Host, Laurie Paolone

Laurie Paolone is the CEO and Founder of the #1 Hashtag search engine www.HashAtIt.com. HashAtIt.com searches HASHTAGS ( # ) on today's most popular social media websites like facebook, twitter, instagram and pinterest. HASHATIT.com brings every single #Hashtag conversation to one place in REAL TIME.

Awards: 2013 International Business Woman Award Winner for Molise, Italy. You can connect with Laurie on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Episode #26 - My guest is Margherita Brunetti the Mayor of a town in Castropignano, Italy and I interview her with the assistance of my Co-host, Angie Antonecchia.  Mayor Brunetti is the 2nd women ever to be elected as Mayor of Castropignano. Listen to her talk about the events, the traditions and her plans for this wonderful town. Of course, we discuss the hashtags used in this region and you don't want to miss the stories that go with the hashtags.

Castropignano is a small town in Italy situated at an elevation of 620 meters ( 2034 ft) above sea level in the Molise region in the Province of Campobasso. Because of its elevation it is often referred to as the, “Balcony Over The Biferno River Valley”. From the town one could see a picturesque panoramic view of the surrounding towns and hillsides. For comparison purposes, the Niagara Region is at an approximate elevation of 600 feet above sea level and thousands of miles away from the sea, while Castropignano at an elevation of 2034 ft is less than twenty miles away from the sea.

To learn more about Castropignano visit the below links:

Links: http://castropignano.com/00home/ http://www.castropignano.net http://www.castrumpineani.it Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/castropignano.molise Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/margherita.brunetti.9 Wikepedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castropignano HashAtIt:  https://www.hashatit.com/castropignano"

Host, Laurie Paolone

Laurie Paolone is the CEO and Founder of the #1 Hashtag search engine www.HashAtIt.com. HashAtIt.com searches HASHTAGS ( # ) on today's most popular social media websites like facebook, twitter, instagram and pinterest. HASHATIT.com brings every single #Hashtag conversation to one place in REAL TIME.

Awards: 2013 International Business Woman Award Winner for Molise, Italy. You can connect with Laurie on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Episode #25- If you like Italian wine, you will want to listen to this show about an award winning winery in Italy. Laurie Paolone and her father Jerry Paolone interview Vincenzo and Filomena Cianfagna of the Cianfagna winery in the Tintilia de Molise wine region in Italy. The grapes on this vineyard are grown organically.

The family Cianfagna has been dedicated to agricultural production for more than six generations, the origins can be traced back to 1860. The business has been passed down from father to son with enormous sacrifices, always with unwavering respect for tradition and the land. In the last forty years, the company led by Pasquale, has grown, reaching the size of approximately 100 hectares. The commitment was greatest for the adaptation of crops in land conservation, favoring the activity of arable land and olive groves, and the modernization of technologies. All this has allowed the company over the years to stay competitive in the market.

The winery was founded in 1999 when Vincenzo Cianfagna took over the business management for his father Pasquale. His desire to continue the work started with the idea of ​​enhancing an ancient tradition, has led him to make innovative, sometimes courageous choices, uniting the ancient cultures and the activities of the vineyard.

The first plant has provided about four hectares of vineyard between Tintilia and Aglianico. Wanting to follow what has always been the company's philosophy, Vincenzo focused his work on the production of quality trying to give the wine a precise, healthy, genuine, and distinctive taste. This is the most wholesome and controllatissime wine. This wine reflects first of all the territory where he was born, a landscaped garden and harmonious set, amid the unspoiled hills of Acquaviva Collecroce. As Vincenzo says, "A good wine is born in the vineyard.”

Website: http://www.cianfagna.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Vincenzo-Cianfagna/100008201101836   Awards: Eco-Friendly award Vini Buoni di Italia International Wine Challenge Decanter World Wine International Wine & Spirit Competition Vinitaly   Host, Laurie Paolone

Laurie Paolone is the CEO and Founder of the #1 Hashtag search engine www.HashAtIt.com. HashAtIt.com searches HASHTAGS ( # ) on today's most popular social media websites like facebook, twitter, instagram and pinterest. HASHATIT.com brings every single #Hashtag conversation to one place in REAL TIME.

Awards: 2013 International Business Woman Award Winner for Molise, Italy.You can connect with Laurie on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter

Episode #24 - Jerry Paolone joins Laurie Paolone in Italy for this interview. They discuss current events that are happening in Europe and the hashtags that are associated with these events, such as #Uber, #Greece, #GreekDepression, #Migrantcrisis.Jerry Paolone is the CEO/FOUNDER of everyone’s favorite Performance Exhaust company MagnaFlow. More than 50 years ago, Jerry moved from a small town in Italy to North America without a penny to his name.  Jerry Paolone built his company from the ground up and his story is a true rags to riches dream story.  In 2013 he won the Ernest and Young Entrepreneur of the year award and this year he is nominated for the 2015 Family Business Award.   Jerry Paolone rarely gives interviews so I am very honored to have him on The #Hashtag Show.His company MagnaFlow is the world leader in the manufacturing of automotive exhaust products and are 100% made in the USA. Their products range from direct-fit catalytic converters and cat-back systems to universal mufflers and builder’s kits for fabricating your own custom system. As an ISO-9001 certified company they believe in their product’s ability to perform and back it up with a lifetime warranty.To learn more about MagnaFlow visit their website.

You can connect with Jerry on LinkedIn.   Host, Laurie Paolone

Laurie Paolone is the CEO and Founder of the #1 Hashtag search engine www.HashAtIt.com. HashAtIt.com searches HASHTAGS ( # ) on today's most popular social media websites like facebook, twitter, instagram and pinterest. HASHATIT.com brings every single #Hashtag conversation to one place in REAL TIME.

Awards: 2013 International Business Woman Award Winner for Molise, Italy.You can connect with Laurie on LinkedIn and Instagram

 

Episode 23 - Laurie Paolone, Host of The #Hashtag Show is interviewing the wonderful people at the 2015 World Expo. This interview is with Alyssa Cassidy, a Student Ambassador at the U.S. Pavilion at the Expo. Alyssa shares with us information about what is found at the U.S. Pavilion and it sounds so interesting.

Of course, the U.S. Pavilion is using a lot of hashtags and it is worth checking them out.

Alyssa Cassidy is currently a student at Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo. She is graduating with her undergraduate in Agricultural Communications with minors in Viticulture and Enology. Alyssa is also working on her Masters in Plant Science.

Below are the links for the USA Pavillion: http://www.usapavilion2015.net/en https://www.facebook.com/usapavilion2015 https://instagram.com/USApavilion2015/ https://www.youtube.com/user/usapavilion2015 http://www.expo2015.org"

Host, Laurie Paolone

Laurie Paolone is the CEO and Founder of the #1 Hashtag search engine www.HashAtIt.com. HashAtIt.com searches HASHTAGS ( # ) on today's most popular social media websites like facebook, twitter, instagram and pinterest. HASHATIT.com brings every single #Hashtag conversation to one place in REAL TIME.

Awards: 2013 International Business Woman Award Winner for Molise, Italy.You can connect with Laurie on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Episode 22 - Laurie Paolone, Host of The #Hashtag Show, welcomes Stefano Mirti,  Head of  Directions and Strategy of the 2015 World Expo Social Media Team in Milan, Italy. Laurie is conducting this interview from the Expo.

Mr. Mirti explains what it takes to head a social media team at an event of this magnitude and of course, what hashtags are being used to spread the message about the Expo.

You can learn more about the Expo on the website and connect with them on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Instagram.

Stefano Mirti

University degree (architectural design) at Politecnico di Torino. Phd (Technology of Architecture) in the same university, post-doc degree at Tokyo University (School of Engineering, Architecture Department, prof. Tadao Ando).

As a teacher he has been lecturer at Tama Fine Art University in Tokyo (1999/2000). Associate professor at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (2001/2005). Director of NABA design school (BA) from 2007 to 2011. He has been visiting professor in some of the most important international schools (AA in London, IUAV in Venice, Politecnico in Milan, Chulalongkorn in Bangkok, etc.). From 2008 he is in charge for the design course at Università Bocconi, Milan (CLEACC). Since 2012 he is the responsible of the WHOAMI, the on-line learning platform of ABADIR, Catania. From summer 2013 he is in charge of "Design 101" MOOC at Iversity, Berlin. Parellel to "Design 101", a new course ("Architecture 101") was launched in January 2015.

As a designer he is one of the founders of Cliostraat and partner of Id-Lab. He won three times (with Cliostraat) the important Europan prize for architecture (115/1997/2001), he has been awarded the Bronze Medal of the Italian Republic for his merit in the field of culture (2004).

Currently, he is quite busy being the head of Social Media team for Expo 2015 Milano.

His work have been published in various international magazines and exhibited in some of the most important institutions in the world (Victoria and Albert Museum, Biennale di Venezia, Triennale di Milano, Architecture Biennale Beijing and others).

As a curator he has been responsible for “The invasion of bodysnatchers” (for IDII, in Triennale di Milano, 2004, “Torino Geodesign”, 2008.

As a writer we can mention (between the others): "Il mondo nuovo. Guida Tascabile" (2014), “Interaction Design Primer” (2006), “Toyo Ito. Istruzioni per l’uso” (2003). Postmedia Books Milano.

You can connect with Stefano on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram

Host, Laurie Paolone

Laurie Paolone is the CEO and Founder of the #1 Hashtag search engine www.HashAtIt.com. HashAtIt.com searches HASHTAGS ( # ) on today's most popular social media websites like facebook, twitter, instagram and pinterest. HASHATIT.com brings every single #Hashtag conversation to one place in REAL TIME.

Awards: 2013 International Business Woman Award Winner for Molise, Italy.You can connect with Laurie on LinkedIn and Instagram

 

Episode 21 - Laurie Paolone, Host of The #Hashtag Show, welcomes Piero Galli, General Manager of the Event Management Division of the 2015 World Expo in Milan, Italy. Laurie is conducting this interview from the Expo.

Mr. Galli tells us about what is happening at the World Expo that is taking place now, and says that this expo is the biggest global event on food and nutrition that people from all over the world can relate to. The theme of the Expo is "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life". Listen to Mr. Galli explain the meaning of this theme and what will be discussed at the Expo. And, of course, Laurie and Piero talk about the use of hashtags in the expo.

You can learn more about the Expo on the website and connect with them on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Instagram.

Host, Laurie Paolone

Laurie Paolone is the CEO and Founder of the #1 Hashtag search engine www.HashAtIt.com. HashAtIt.com searches HASHTAGS ( # ) on today's most popular social media websites like facebook, twitter, instagram and pinterest. HASHATIT.com brings every single #Hashtag conversation to one place in REAL TIME.

Awards: 2013 International Business Woman Award Winner for Molise, Italy.You can connect with Laurie on LinkedIn and Instagram

 

Episode 20 - Do you love to use emoji's? If so, you will get a kick out of this show. Cara Rose DeFabio, a writer for Fusion.net and labeled an emoji certified anthropologist, tells us the history of emoji and their evolution from emoticons. She recently wrote an article in fusion.net (Instagram hashtags could be the best guide to emoji meaning we've ever had) on how emoji's are being used as hashtags on Instagram. There are around 700 emoji's and they are even being used by big companies. Listen to this show to learn about why you cannot search for the eggplant emoji on Instagram.

Cara Rose DeFabio is a pop addicted, emoji fluent, transmedia artist, focusing on live events as an experience designer for Real Future. Check out Cara's articles and emoji artwork on Fusion and connect with her on Instagram.

Host, Laurie Paolone Laurie Paolone is the CEO and Founder of the #1 Hashtag search engine www.HashAtIt.com. HashAtIt.com searches HASHTAGS ( # ) on today's most popular social media websites like facebook, twitter, instagram and pinterest. HASHATIT.com brings every single #Hashtag conversation to one place in REAL TIME.   Awards: 2013 International Business Woman Award Winner for Molise, Italy.You can connect with Laurie on LinkedIn, Instagram

 

Episode 19 - Have you ever tried to search for a #hashtag and could not find it? This show is about a very easy to use hashtag search engine that you can use for free and searches tags on your favorite social networks, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Laurie Paolone and her Co-host Jim Nico talk about HashAtIt.com, a hashtag search engine that allows you to search for hashtags in the same fashion that you would do a search for something else in Google. Laurie is the CEO and Founder of HashAtIt.com and in this show you will learn about the search engine's many unique features and what Laurie thinks about the future of hashtags.

A good definition of hashtags--right off of HashAtIt.com: If you’ve ever used Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and/or Pinterest, you may have seen the pound symbol # in front of a word or an unspaced phrase. A Metadata Tag, or HASHTAG is used to identify messages on a specific topic in various social networking platforms.

Host, Laurie Paolone

Laurie Paolone is the CEO and Founder of the #1 Hashtag search engine www.HashAtIt.com. HashAtIt.com searches HASHTAGS ( # ) on today's most popular social media websites like facebook, twitter, instagram and pinterest. HASHATIT.com brings every single #Hashtag conversation to one place in REAL TIME.

Awards: 2013 International Business Woman Award Winner for Molise, Italy. 

Episode 18 - The #Hashtag Show welcomes Kevin Lloyd Ancell, a Southern California artist who talks about his artwork and how hashtags are used in the art world.

KEVIN LLOYD ANCELL WAS ADOPTED AT A YOUNG AGE AND RAISED BY A GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SURFERS. THEY WERE THE MOVERS AND SHAKERS OF THE 1970S SURF SCENE, AND FOR ANCELL, SURFING BECAME A WAY OF LIFE AS WELL AS A TEACHER OF DISCIPLINE; IT HELPED HIM MEET CHALLENGES AND OVERCOME FEAR. THAT IS WHERE THE ART COMES IN. FOR ANCELL, ART IS AN EXPLORATION OF THE INNER SELF AND ANOTHER FORM OF SELF—EXPRESSION. ANCELL DRAWS MOST OF HIS INSPIRATION FROM MANUEL RIBEIRA"”A SPANISH PAINTER WHO LIVED IN ITALY. HE ALSO DRAWS INSPIRATION FROM THE WORKS OF REMBRANDT, CARAVAGGIO AND THE OLD, FLEMISH MASTERS. THOUGH HE NOW LIVES AND WORKS AS A FULL—TIME ARTIST IN SAN FRANCISCO, ANCELL'S PAST WANDERINGS HAVE INCLUDED MEXICO, COSTA RICA, AND CHINA. IN CHINA HE STUDIED WU SHU AND TAUGHT AMERICAN CULTURE AT THE BEIJING INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY"”UNTIL HE WAS EXPELLED FOR "IMPROPER POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL ACTIVITY." WHEN HE'S NOT PAINTING, HE'S OUT SURFING"”OR MAKING SURFBOARDS.

You can learn more about Kevin on his website and connect with him on Instagram.

Host, Laurie PaoloneLaurie Paolone is the CEO and Founder of the #1 Hashtag search engine www.HashAtIt.com. HashAtIt.com searches HASHTAGS ( # ) on today's most popular social media websites like facebook, twitter, instagram and pinterest. HASHATIT.com brings every single #Hashtag conversation to one place in REAL TIME.

Awards: 2013 International Business Woman Award Winner for Molise, Italy.