From Murgia to Bowerman, on TV 20 Women who challenge the world

What do the writer Michela Murgia and the anti-trafficking operator Francesca De Masi have in common? The chef Cristina Bowerman, from Puglia to the United States, round trip with Michelin star, and the stuntwoman Romina Bobba? And the investigative journalist Floriana Bulfon, who told the black folds of Casamonica in Rome, and the conductor Nicoletta Conti, who made music her life? They are all "Women who challenge the world", as the title of the TV2000 docuserie, written by Riccardo Brun, Paolo Rossetti and Francesco Siciliano and produced by Panama film, aired from March 3 - right in the week of International Women's Day - from Tuesday to Friday at 19.30. Twenty episodes, for twenty stories, told by the protagonists themselves.
"For a TV like ours, tackling the issue of women is not only a need for topicality, but a precise responsibility", begins the director of Tv2000 Vincenzo Morgante, presenting the series in the central archive of the Unione Donne Italiane.
"Each of the twenty protagonists - he explains - offers a personal contribution, each in its own field, in redesigning the female role within society, which cannot be of secondary importance. What do they have in common? Nothing. Each of them is unique and unrepeatable as well as the story that brought it up to here. But they are also tied by a red thread of excellence in what they do, often breaking through a barrier, opening a closed door, moving the line of their goal a little bit every day farther on. They do it for themselves and for the women of tomorrow. "
"We didn't start with the idea of ​​telling women as part of a picture gallery to build and feed with new stickers - adds Francesco Siciliano - But to tell the present through a particular angle". Here then is the kick boxing champion Gloria Peritore, who "in the ring" discovered "how much strength I had and how to bring it out, even in life". Or the eco-stylist Eleonora Riccio, who left her career for important brands, to devote herself to Made in Italy and craftsmanship. Or the architect of the suburbs Guendalina Salimei, whose story was told in the cinema by Paola Cortellesi. And then again, one after the other, the vintage car restorer Giovanna Parascandolo; the arm wrestling champion Chiara Acciaio; AFEVA President Giuliana Busto; the rare plant seeker Isabella Dalla Ragione; the teacher to oncological children Daniela Di Fiore; the violin maker Ezia Di Labio; the teacher of Italian and history in the juvenile prison of Nisida Maria Franco; the former director of the Capitoline Museums and director of the Barracco Museum in Rome Marina Mattei; vascular surgeon Carmen Pediliggieri; the chief inspector of Scampia commissioner, Veronica Quaranta; the president of Casamica onlus, Lucia Vedani.
All women animated by a passion that often led them to depart from the road that society or family had traced for them, embarking on a new path, not beaten, more difficult. "We chose them looking for uniqueness in what they did and how they did it", explains Paolo Rossetti, perhaps with the aim of "inspiring others to follow the same path". "We also looked for women who would honor the title of the series - adds Riccardo Brun - Each of them challenged something: a stereotype, herself or the ugly she saw. And by changing a little bit of ourselves, we also change the world a little ".