''Distant Vision'' is an ongoing experimental film project by

Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; ; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the major figures of the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Coppola is the recipient of five ...

. Different versions of this production have been broadcast to limited audiences from the stages of

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on June 5, 2015, and at

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in July 2016. Coppola led the project as a

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piece for a richer, more in-depth future live broadcast that will recount the struggles and triumphs of three generations of an Italian-American family set against the birth and growth of the invention of television.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Distant Vision 2015 films 2010s Italian-language films American avant-garde and experimental films Films directed by Francis Ford Coppola Films produced by Francis Ford Coppola Films produced by Fred Roos 2010s American films