MANO NERA (BLACK HAND)

MANO NERA (BLACK HAND)

Feature · Drama · 129 pages
Status: Shopping
When his brother is murdered, a stoic Italian immigrant in 1917 seeks revenge to kill the man who called the hit: his wife’s brother and head crime boss of the Black Hand society. 
Written by Samantha Caprio-Negret
5 Accolades
Accolade Highlights
Finalist, Creative World Awards 2021
Finalist, Creative World Awards 2018
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition 2023

1 Writer

Samantha Caprio-Negret
Davie, FL
Samantha is a published children’s book author, screenwriter, and professional makeup artist. She graduated from FIU with a BS in Mass Communications with a specialty in Journalism/Broadcast. She’s also written two screenplays, which are both being entered into film festivals and shopped in Hollywood.

Additional Project Info

MANO NERA is a 129-page screenplay based on the true story of Samantha Caprio-Negret's (one of the writers) Italian great-grandparents. Ultimately, it’s a time-period and a love story with the Black Hand Society (Mano Nera) as a backdrop; it has some unique twists, including how it begins in modern day Florida, flashbacking to 1917 in New Jersey. It intertwines two stories of two separate couples in different time periods, and how they correlate. MANO NERA is a compilation of real-life events and some fictitious scenes and characters. There is no need to have the life rights on the characters in the script because they are all deceased, and all names have been changed. The main characters are based on the writer's ancestors. Facts have been taken from the book, Murders in Monmouth: Capital Crimes from the Jersey Shore’s Past (Ch.6 Revenge of the Farinella Brothers).