March 2008

I invite you to read, sign and distribute the following open letter drafted by the movement "

Centoautori " for the world of film, TV, theater, and more generally the world of culture and information.

to join and 'just send us an email

at:

piuomenocentoautori@libero.it

the deputies and senators of the next term,

ministers of the future government this writer represents the world of film, television, media. This' we tell you form little by little, bringing together writers, directors, actors, set designers, musicians, actors, craftsmen: a set of skills and creativity, a cluster of knowledge - studied, learned, passed down.

We ask these things out loud in public.

First, the defense of our universe rights, which are then our identity '. After all, the only thing really ours. Our copyright

- inalienable, non-transferable, intractable - are the result of our minds and our hearts are in our live in the community: and 'from here, from this feeling and tell

writers, filmmakers, artists, born and gradually strengthens the imagination of the country. Who would want to give up on this? Who would have, instead of a novelist, a bureaucrat? Who can 'never think that they put a bag man' by a party may be better than a poet? 's why we propose to reverse the usual point of view: we are not asking facilities, favors, money. We ask that the historical adventure of our cinema and everything 'that the cinema

moves - the story television for example - may once again be central. We ask you therefore to think of Italy not only as a factory to operate better or family to make ends meet, but also as an environment to fresco, a huge light wall, a white eyelid to write stories to tell - who will 'come after us - what' we were, that 'we were, that' we have tried to be. There are words that seem to forget that and instead we would like to come back to make sense and strength. Words like

ethics , transparency , competence , passion . Words that once made it real, they mean that in some specific roles must never again 'go of people that respond to charitable institutions, but people capable, honest, happy to be called to that role, and full of will 'to do, only worry about the good of the community'. in movies and TV,

this would be people willing to listen , to propose and dispose, according to personal conscience rather than on external forces. In the government of the country, would have a Minister of Culture situated in heart of the intellectual landscape alive, able to communicate with the world of creativity ', equipped with the right language.

There are words like

search , innovation , testing , which seem to become unpronounceable - words that frighten those who believe that a film should be thought of only in an enclosed public conformity, disconcerted by any elementary or story is not new. But do not be afraid of the new. Because 'the new is that it breaks the ice - and under, slowly, it turns out that a treasure it was hard to accept and which quickly becomes shared language. We used the word less of this campaign:

culture . None and 'the culture, no one takes the distance, no one admits to hating it, nobody admits to consider it a burden, a lamentable thing for intellectuals. It 'a word used up, that does not say' nothing, and even we have difficulty to use it for commercial use and false and that he 'did. E 'an unforgivable sin to have worn out so the word' important in land where the culture and 'instead so' close to ordinary people: when we walked in through the streets, as they pass in front of our old churches, when they look at some nice buildings, some fountains harmonious, embankments or those that draw scenes of houses wonderful outdoor theaters. These are the same people who feel a commonality of feeling, thought and passion when, to the movies or on TV, they see those same streets, those same streets, crossed by the body and the voice of our players and our actresses. Our people love the culture, although known by many other names. But the culture goes back up in the middle of the playing field, should not be left to the margins: the ideas should circulate, circulate movies, music, colors, theaters, and everything else that goes around.

We are a wealthy nation of our work and our culture, but in this industry, we are behind many, too many countries.

We therefore need to change. It seems difficult, but it is not 'difficult. It seems to have cost, and instead, to begin with, you could start at almost zero cost: teaching film in schools, promote the work of our documentary in the workplace, in homes, in the countryside, have some real market rules; turn nominations; rely on good people and authorities. Simple things, normal things in other countries. It would serve us, and those that will be ... Those who come are the boys. Our - and your - children. They're the ones in their rooms, in front of their screens private, download movies from the network, sometimes legally, but more 'often illegally enriching providers who use our work without acknowledgment, depriving us of our rights. We believe it is right that the authors protect the exploitation of their works, stemming the tide of piracy, even electronically. But we think it is right that young people can have access to our films without paying a cost that makes them effectively inaccessible.

's something we should discuss together.

When we say together , We mean that, compared to what happened so far, we put our skills to the community ', just as you will be asked to do once elected.

We propose to take direct responsibility .

If you want to be that such committees must decide what funding, under which producers, such as directors, based on what guarantees - look no names in your address book private, do not call your friends, your wives, your secretaries call us. And under the table, not as consultants secrets. But, as in many European countries, in the light of the sun. To set time periods that do not write, do not we turn our film - but only to fulfill the task that we have agreed to play.

cinema - when a story or an image and 'at the same time simple and profound - has immense power to tell us what' we did not know of show us what 'we could not imagine, even about ourselves. In fact, the cinema, the cinema and all that follows, and 'a simple art. But simple does not mean trivial, simply means something that is at the end of a long process. And 'why, when a film

speaks to the public and strikes at the heart, there is a kind of miracle: the viewer, passing through old definition, in reality' is not passive at all: the soul, takes part, sided, discusses: what the hell 'the monolith

Space Odyssey ? E 'fault Mamma Roma if the child dies? Marcello, in his sweet life , and 'a melancholy kind o' a bitch? He is right or not to say that Professor Silvio Orlando The Betrothed have a ball? The question to ask is' this: what our country needs to find himself, without fear of its mirror image, immobilized in a mask? Can ', the ruler, simply to have the simple role of arbiter in the race to the economic welfare of individual citizens? Or can 'than ask citizens to identify themselves as community' only in accordance with the rules of compatibility 'economic or greater equity' tax?

There 'need something more'. We have to decipher the inconvenience, and tell by looking in our films, a kind of concrete utopia , a possible future project

, At hand, a proud claim, capable of vibrating in tune with the real country: see themselves represented, recounted seeing, it helps to understand each other.

Why 'this there' need: to go back to see us .

Why 'the image reminds us that today most of the TV - the worst TV, ground by chasing a consensus of pure numbers - not' the real country. Where are those women so 'fake, home to many men, so' stupid those young people so 'empty? Who ever met in a bar down the street or people dressed like that, a pose that way, stoned like that?

must return to TV - this potential great tool of democracy and equality - his 'tbsp : this does not mean depressing listening, not means do not show, do not be entertainment, not passionate fiction to the general public. It means doing all that already 'is done, but thinking that the viewer who wants to be seen as it really is' - or how to really dream - and not be summarily represented.

We need good movies and good TV 'cause we need a new look. Not only for us but for the audience, because it 's the public to need a story if' newer, 'inhabited by contemporary'.

Likewise, not us - authors, filmmakers - who needs the state, but 'the State to return to wonder if he does not need of us: to know again who we are, where we are, as the country can 'be helped to find and grow.

Please note, in conclusion, as the world of cinema and TV and theater and literature he had written a year ago, at a very cheerful event: "We believe that the State has an obligation to assure its citizens the right to access the most 'wide variety' of works can be - national and international commercial and

niche, quality 'and entertainment, documentation and research, returning to film and TV role as a cultural enrichment. In recent years and this right is' weak, reducing the freedom 'of choice for authors and users, simplifying the messages transmitted to younger generations, intellectually and humanly impoverishing the whole community'. " E 'from here we think we should start again. Let's sit down, talk about it.