Here we get into the television specifics: the format. Many have heard of it, but few know exactly what it is. Chiara Duranti, with her speech "Italy land of format", introduces us to the topic by also providing an international perspective on the use of the format in the world compared to Italy.
Maurizio Sangalli, television author, talks about his experience as a creator of an original format and why he decided to be a producer, as well as an author, creating a pilot episode, the so-called "number zero". With him Alessandro Sampaoli, protagonist of the format presented, film and television actor, known to the public as Silvano from the Italia 1 sitcom Camera Cafè and Stefano Chiodaroli (Mariano from the sitcom Belli Inside).
Following this, Lucio Gardin's format will be screened: Taxi Coop, written with Vito Naddeo, number zero conceived, written and created in Trento, curated by the Programming Structure of the local Rai headquarters and presented by the Director, Sergio Pezzola. Among others, Alessandro Di Carlo, Rocco Barbaro, Claudia Penoni and Claudia Morandini participate.
Maria Chiara Duranti, graduated from the Catholic University of Milan in Modern Literature and specialized in social communications, registered in the register of professional journalists, has gained twenty years of experience working for important broadcasters in Italy and abroad. After specializations obtained in Italy (Luiss), Madrid (Universidad Complutense), Las Vegas (UNLV, University of Nevada) in journalism and television production, he works in Italy for Mediaset as assistant to the director of Rete4, Michele Franceschelli, in Madrid for Tele5 in international co-productions, in London at the Italian editorial office of Bloomberg Television, as anchor and producer. Having returned to Italy in 1999, she was hired by Mediaset in the entertainment department, with the aim of dealing with international trends & formats. Since then he has never stopped frequenting the main international television markets: Miptv/Mipcom (Cannes), Natpe (USA), Discop, World Content Market (Prague) and has gained valuable experience in monitoring the format trends that have marked TV in the last decade.
Maurizio Sangalli, television author, screenwriter and director, began writing professionally at the age of 17 as a reporter. He studies screenwriting and directing at Ermanno Olmi's Ipotesi Cinema. Gino & Michele introduce him to the world of television. Worked at Zelig and Colorado writing for Abatantuono, Iacchetti, Zuzzurro and Gaspare, Stefano Chiodaroli. He is the author and screenwriter of many sitcoms including Lovebugs with Fabio De Luigi and Michelle Hunziker and Emilio Solfrizzi and Giorgia Surina, Il Mammo (again with Iacchetti), Il supermarket with Angela Finocchiaro and Enrico Bertolino, Don Luca with Luca Laurenti and Cosi fan tutte with Alessia Marcuzzi and Debora Villa. He was also the author of Striscia la Notizia, Paperissima, Amore with Raffaella Carrà and Arrivano i Rossi. As an advertiser, he signed among other things the Telecom campaign with Michelle Hunziker, John Travolta and Ficarra and Picone.
Alessandro Sampaoli attended an acting school in Milan and various internships with directors such as Danio Manfredini, Valerio Binasco, Cristina Pezzoli. He collaborates with Atir, a young and established Milanese theater company. In the meantime he began to take his first steps in cinema and television. Fame Chimica is one of the first films in which he participates. In the cinema he worked with Mazzacurati, Pupi Avati, Enzo Monteleone, Luca Lucini. He has a co-starring role in the film The Lake, an Anglo-American production, shot entirely in English, directed by Robert Golden.
Silvano di Camera Cafè was his first comic role for television. He worked for MTV in Bradipo with Andrea Pezzi and more recently in Stasera niente MTV with Ambra Angiolini. For Italia 1, in addition to Camera Café, also Medici Miei, a sitcom set in a hospital and All Stars, in which he plays a footballer alongside Diego Abatantuono, Fabio De Luigi and Ambra Angiolini. He is one of the protagonists of the new Canale 5 drama with Massimo Boldi. He continues to work in the theater. In Paris with Charles Berling in Ithaque by Botho Strauss and in Palermo with Emma Dante.
Stefano Chiodaroli, fire eater, street acrobat, actor in amateur companies, began his stage activity again in 1995, first with writing and then joining the short-lived Ottomani trio.
1997, again only assiduous attendance of the Circolone di Legnano and in March 1998 the character of the baker was born.
It is the character that allows Stefano to enter the limelight of national TV in programs such as Zelig let's cabaret in 1999, Convention in 2002 and Colorado Cafè comedy program of Italia 1, by Diego Abatantuono
Stefano Chiodaroli has also created other characters Hormonal Storm (a Celtic demigod who hosts him in the Rai 2 comedy program Bulldozer), and then still other energetic, crazy, surreal ones such as the magician abatjour, Ornello the former photo model and Brian the jazz trumpeter.
Stefano Chiodaroli plays Mariano, a car thief and thug with a heart of gold, in the sitcom Belli Inside broadcast on Canale 5.
Sergio Pezzola, former deputy director of Rai 2, has professional experience both within Rai and Mediaset. Historic producer of Gialappa's Band, curator and creator of cult comedy programs: Scatafascio by Paolo Rossi, Comici with Serena Dandini, Zelig with Gino&Michele, I Corti and Tel chì el Telun by Aldo Giovanni & Giacomo. With state television he edited, among others, the programQuelli che il calcio in the edition hosted by Fabio Fazio, La grande notte del monday with Gene Gnocchi, We are working for you with Cochi& Renato. He is currently Director of the Rai branch in Trento and responsible for the Programming Structure.
Lucio Gardin, as an author, has written for Disney Channel, Striscia la Notizia, Enzo Iacchetti, i Fichi d'India, Solenghi, Panariello, Littizzetto and others. He is a journalist and co-author of Rai and Mediaset TV programs and sitcoms. As an actor he worked under the direction of Mario Monicelli in Come Quando Outside It Rains, and then Casa Vianello, College, Giornalisti, Casa Famiglia, Un posto al sole, Una donna per amici, Una lungo notte and Don Matteo. He has participated in various national programs such as Seven show, Candid Camera, Gnu, Check-in, Scherzi a Parte, Stupido Hotel, Yogurt, Caffè Teatro Cabaret, Saturday night live and some Swiss TV programs. In Trentino he works for Rai 3 region in the programs Bianco & Nero and Andata e Ritorno of which he is co-author.
