PRESS RELEASE BEAUTY CONNECTS PEOPLE: SALVATORES NARRATES THE UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE ITALIAN REGIONS IN THE ITALY PAVILION AT EXPO 2020 DUBAI Rome, 9 March 2021 Oscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores will narrate to the visitors to the Italy Pavilion at Expo2020 Dubai the Regions of Italy that as of today have started on their journey to this year’s global event. The project was unveiled by the Italian Commissioner’s Office for Expo 2020 Dubai at a digital press conference hosted on the platform of the Foreign Press in Italy. The Italian Regions will be the highlight of the exhibition set up at the Italy Pavilion in the upcoming Universal Expo, due to start on 1 October. Salvatores, who was selected by a jury chaired by writer Sandro Veronesi, will narrate the Beauty of Italy, a concept underlying Italy’s participation under the heading “Beauty Connects People” that in turn addresses the Expo Dubai theme, “Connecting minds, Creating the Future.” Over the next few weeks, the Oscar-winning filmmaker together with Indiana Production, will travel across the Regions that have joined the project, filming footage that will be edited and screened to the https://italyexpo2020.it/ Commissariato Generale dell’Italia per Expo 2020 Dubai Per informazioni: Area Comunicazione Commissariato Italia ad Expo 2020 Dubai [email protected] visitors to the Italy Pavilion for the entire 6-month duration of Expo 2020 Dubai. The storytelling people will enjoy when visiting the Italy Pavilion is conceived as a glance across the Peninsula. At the beginning of the journey, visitors will bask in the beauty of the landscape along the exhibition’s itinerary then continue on to narrative architectures made up of contents that best express Italy’s competence and beauty: from cinema to theatre, from landscapes to innovative enterprises, from cutting-edge technologies to sustainability. The story, which the Director and the participating Regions will tell, will feature a set of highly spectacular and impressive contents starting from the Belvedere, a scenic point overlooking beauty – a circular scenic window overlooking the country’s Region with a 360° view of Italy’s most beautiful landscapes. It also marks the importance of protecting and taking care of the priceless heritage Italy represents for the whole world. The journey continues with a film on Italy’s Know-How’, to be run on a 100sqmt screen and portraying the best of Italy’s handicrafts agrifood, machinery, design and the implementation of the most advanced technologies. The storytelling will then feature ‘Short Stories’, temporary exhibitions with a thematic focus on our country’s culture and art as well as contemporary innovations in fields such as health, medicine, space and design. https://italyexpo2020.it/ Commissariato Generale dell’Italia per Expo 2020 Dubai Per informazioni: Area Comunicazione Commissariato Italia ad Expo 2020 Dubai [email protected] The Italy Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020 will be truly a “Garden of Tales”: a garden for it represents a metaphorical synthesis of many elements that come together to create a balanced and harmonious language, projecting the order of the universe. The tales that originate in our regions often represent unique competences such as a kind of innovation that – as it happened many a times in the past and that it is still happening today, is capable of changing the course of history and of mankind thanks to a vision and to the awareness of living in a country with a priceless natural, environmental and cultural heritage. “I believe that beauty, art and if I may, also the pleasure of life that Italy can convey and export, can truly help change the world,” Gabriele Salvatores said. “The Italian beauty which Gabriele Salvatores will narrate in a masterly fashion is the beauty that is born of the diversity of the country’s regions and knowledge: for the first time ever in a Universal Expo, our Regions will be the artistic partners of the Italy Pavilion, bringing to life its contents for the entire duration of the Expo,” Paolo Glisenti, Commissioner General for Italy’s participation in Expo 2020 Dubai said and went on to add: “They will be key also relaunch tourism, starting from experiential tourism, but also to make our productive chain, from handicraft concerns to large corporations, be more attractive for international capitals. They are expedient also in making human capital be drawn towards scientific and technological competence centers that are destined to generate innovation and sustainability in the future.” https://italyexpo2020.it/ Commissariato Generale dell’Italia per Expo 2020 Dubai Per informazioni: Area Comunicazione Commissariato Italia ad Expo 2020 Dubai [email protected] “All of our landscapes, with the exception of the natural ones, are a direct expression of the Italian know-how. I am truly pleased that this storytelling is now in the hands of a sensitive filmmaker such as Gabriele Salvatores,” said Davide Rampello, artistic curator of the Italy Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. NOTE: Gabriele Salvatores was born in Naples and later moved to Milan. He is one of the founders of Teatro dell’Elfo, where he directed also “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, a rock musical that became his debut film, followed by ‘Kamikazen’, ‘Marrakech Express’, ‘Turné’ and ‘Mediterraneo’, which won an Academy Award. Ever since then he has been very successful, making films of different genres, docufilms and also directing Opera productions. https://italyexpo2020.it/ Commissariato Generale dell’Italia per Expo 2020 Dubai Per informazioni: Area Comunicazione Commissariato Italia ad Expo 2020 Dubai [email protected] .