2023-05-10 13:04:56
“Cinema is imagination and history, emotion and culture. It is also leisure, dream, freedom. It has imprinted indelible marks on everyone’s memory and belongs to our civilization as one of its identity traits”. So the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarellaon the occasion of the ceremony at the Quirinale for the presentation of the candidates for the awards’Donatello’s David’.
“Il cinema is part of us. It is even while he plans his future. The ‘David di Donatello’ ceremony enhances the talents of the present and looks to those of tomorrow. it is an encouragement to cinema and to the country,” said Mattarella.
“We know – added the head of state – that it will continue to be like this even if cinema is changing, driven by rapid transformations in technology and language, production and tools. The Davids help us to trace and mark the path, to have the perception of the progress made, of the values in the field, of this heritage of art and culture that is fully part of Italian history”.
“Cinema is a witness that passes from hand to hand. At the first edition of the David, in 1956, Vittorio De Sica was awarded for ‘Bread, love and…’ Luchino Visconti’s ‘The Leopard’ is sixty years old. Fifty years ago – it was 1973- ‘Amarcord’ by Federico Fellini, later winner of the Oscar, arrived in theaters. I could go on, but I would risk neglecting much more masterpieces than it would be possible to mention. An exciting sequence of films – underlined Mattarella – which made history, which made our talent known in the world, which also marked the life of the Republic and filled the album of our memories”.
“Alongside the increase in Italian productions and co-productions, alongside the many requests to shoot films and TV series in our country, there are many young directors who follow in the footsteps of their teachers, and on their professional journey they are not slow to experience their ideas, to express their own creativity. Our talent continues to be appreciated everywhere. Italian taste and quality have a great driving force in cinema, with its roots and icons,” Mattarella said.
“This heritage of inventions, professionalism, artistic creation, industrial support which over time has become an important infrastructure of the country, has generated knowledge and shared perceptions. It has produced a school, it has expanded the expressive potential of society. The cinema has made a significant contribution to the development of our civilization. The David di Donatello Award expresses this sense of history. History of cinema which is Italian history”, the head of state said again, adding: “The career awards and special awards, which are awarded year after year, are evidence of this”.
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