Director of Vasco, for video won long battle

(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 22 - "And to think that up to now video clip noiregists were considered on a par with porn video directors ...". Forty years of career at the highest levels, author of over 300 video clips from Sting to Vasco Rossi, acclaimed in the sector, so much so that he deserves the title of "Fellini delvideoclip", Stefano Salvati is the ram's head making himself a spokesman for the great names of Italian music , from Gino Paoli to Bennato, passing through Fiorello, convinced the minister of culture Franceschini to sign the decree recognizing the artistic nature of the video clips, thus also admitted to the tax concessions provided for by the tax credit.
He who directed Aerosmith, Billie Preston, Toquinho, just to name a few, even a very young AngelinaJolie for a video of Antonello Venditti (it was High Tide), who shot a video clip with Roman Polanski (Angeli di Vasco Rossi), who worked as an author also for the last project of the great Fellini, today he is satisfied as a child. "Almost the best day of my life," confides on the phone with ANSA, "because this long battle is finally won." Behind, he explains, there is the IMAGinACTION, the first (and only) worldwide video clip festival, which Salvati launched edirige, with the support of Fimi, but also a life of work and expectations today shared by an ever-growing number of people who they asked for consideration for an art form that was mistreated. "Many young people", he underlines, "because that of the video clips is the art form most followed by the new generations".
In 2017 a petition signed by all the most famous names of Italian pop, from Vasco Rossi to Venditti, had not achieved the intention. In the meeting a week ago at the Roman college, things went much better: "Franceschini was a great player, he admitted the error, he undertook to repair with a decree".
A "beautiful thing", he adds, that thanks to the tax credit could also be important for tourism: "Can you imagine that advertising for our country if a great international star comes to shoot a video in Italy? Now it will be much easier".
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