Blanca, between disability and overwhelming energy – Entertainment

(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 18 – “Blanca goes on like a train as if she has no kind of disability. When something from the surrounding area attracts her attention, it is as if she entered a” black room “, in which she isolates the sound produced by a thing or a person “, explains Maria Chiara Giannetta. “A challenge that rarely happens in an actor’s career. I was lucky enough to meet Maestro Bocelli. He opened me up to an all-encompassing world”, he underlines. ‘Blanca’ is the new unconventional fiction interpreted by the actress and Giuseppe Zeno, arriving from November 22 on Rai1 in six first evenings. Presented in the Rai studios in via Asiago, with the live performance of the Calibro 35, in the presence of the directors of Rai Fiction Maria Pia Ammirati and Rai1 Stefano Coletta, with the whole cast (including a great protagonist who will make the audience fall in love with the guide dog Linnaeus , a female bulldog who protects the young and comforts her in the most difficult moments). ‘Blanca’ is inspired by the novel of the same name by Patrizia Rinaldi and follows the story of a young woman who lost her sight at the age of 12, due to a fire in which her sister died. She joined the police and is now a consultant in Genoa. Blanca specializes in decodage, that is the analytical listening of all the audio materials of the investigations, such as wiretapping and interrogations. Produced by Luca and Matilde Bernabei for Lux Vide in collaboration with Rai Fiction, the series is directed by Jan Maria Michelini (flanked by Giacomo Martelli for episodes 4-6) and was created with the artistic advice of Andrea Bocelli: the master not only did she describe the ‘world of the blind’ to the screenwriters, but also gave the protagonist a little training: “I was at his house – he confirms – I saw him running down a flight of stairs. Andrea Bocelli told me that there is nothing a blind person cannot do “. It is also the first series in the world made with the use of holophony, a special sound recording technique that allows it to be reproduced in a similar way to how it is perceived by the human hearing system. We will also see a beautiful and gray Genoa, where Blanca will bring color with her colorful clothes, the funk music of the Calibro 35, which she listens to very loud even on the street, and the overwhelming energy. “Genoa – explains Jean Michelini – was the perfect setting for a crime, it is a profoundly multi-ethnic, colorful city with great diversity, alleys, the port. We shot in Camogli, a colorful city that brings you back to a romantic dimension like the personality of Blanca “. Each episode focuses on a yellow case with a setting linked to Genoa and tells of a specific social environment, the first also talks about the Morandi Bridge but also the economic consequences experienced by some citizens forced to close their businesses, neighborhoods inhabited by classes different, revealing the multifaceted character of this city, still little explored by television drama. In addition to the thrillers, the series tells the life of Blanca, attracted and divided between two men, her colleague Liguori and her friend Nanni a young chef (Pierpaolo Spollon), her relationship with Lucia, the twelve-year-old daughter of the victim of the first episode. , and with the father. Giuseppe Zeno who is Inspector Liguori explains: “At first I looked at Maria Chiara in the wrong way, then Jean told me you don’t have to worry she doesn’t see you. kind of resoluteness, for his being a maverick dog. He is a policeman, almost resigned to the evils of the world, convinced that it is impossible to save everyone. A man who struggles to open up to love. Thanks to Blanca, however, in Liguori he shoots a spring when she asks her a single question what are you doing here? “. Luca and Matilde Bernabei point out: “We made a product that would appeal to the international market. Lux is directly distributing this series abroad. It will air in France and we are closing in Spain. Admire yourself remember:” Blanca is one of the first projects I saw when I arrived at Rai Fiction. The strength of the popular tale of Rai 1 is to capture all points of view, even when it comes to disability. “The fundamental lesson transmitted by Bocelli was to face the challenges of every day with a” combative “spirit, fighting for live a condition of “normality”, remembering, for example, that as a child he learned to ride a bicycle and horseback and, as an adult, even jump with a parachute. The first 100 ‘episode premiered on RaiPlay from Saturday 20 November (HANDLE).