CINEMA / Sabina Guzzanti: TV HUMILIATING GOING SOLO WITH LEFT
Director of Viva Zapatero at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York
New York, May 5 (AP) - Sabina Guzzanti has no plans to return to television, now that the government of Silvio Berlusconi's enemy is gone. "It 's humbling to think you can do satire on TV only when ruler the left and then nothing for five years if the government is right. They should change the rules. "After a couple of press conferences canceled at the end Guzzanti met with reporters in New York to talk about his documentary" Viva Zapatero! ", Which led to the Tribeca Film Festival a few splashes of Italian cinema.
The film, which tells the battle to the program Raiot, the American public is a shocking indictment on a country that, to listen to the questions and curiosities of American journalists, it seems really a third world dictatorship. If in Italy to anger the complaint is water under the bridge, the film may still be distributed in the U.S. market. The festival will be screened this evening for the fifth time in the presence of the director, and the Festival welcomed him as an event.
The positive publicity also came from Michael Moore, the director of Fahrenheit 9 / 11 that Guzzanti made the compliments and said "I do not feel so alone." Sabina thanks: "If it were not for him and for the extraordinary success of his documentary would have been impossible for me to convince a producer to make Viva Zapatero!"
Her battle now moves to the collection of signatures to reform public television. How? "Nothing revolutionary, a mix of French law, the German and the BBC." The spirit is that of English Prime Minister (hence the title of the film) as the first act of government has chosen not to appoint the directors of public television. "We would like the director of Rai was chosen with an open competition, with curriculum, to choose the most good there."
But the climate has changed in Italy after the defeat of Berlusconi? "No - Guzzanti responds to journalists - the leader of the left I do not like me. They hate this kind of thing. I do not think they have in any measure understood the true meaning of our struggle. They are not interested in changing the rules of communication in Italy . They just want to control the television, as up until now has subsidiaries Berlusconi. "
"Of course - more - Now change is at least possible. We have always, in the past, had the habit of not being free but Berlusconi was really dangerous. If he won and ruled for another five years maybe Italy would have reached a point of no return. But the defeat was narrow, we are still not out of the nightmare. "
The documentary is also an indictment of the Italian press controlled by" directors chosen because it is protected from this or that party: "When a country must read the Economist to understand what is going to say that things are really bad. If Berlusconi had remained in power would stop even the theater, with the same climate of fear that has spread throughout the world of information and television.
The new government? "I hope in Massimo D'Alema, President of the Republic. It would be nice to make the speech later this year. Romano Prodi not imitate him, he does my brother and we do not step on his feet."
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