September 25th, 2019
A very special evening with director Gianluca Migliarotti in Charleston. The screening of Driving Dreams is a spectacular opportunity to celebrate the men who conceived some of the most remarkable and visionary Italian car designs. Bertone, Pininfarina, Giugiaro, Guerra, Michelotti, Martin… some of the many names that Italy can boast in automotive design and engineering; they are artists with the work ethic of an artisan and artisans with the creative flair of artists. They are the people that make us still proud to be Italians.
The docu-film is an heartfelt homage to the extraordinarily creative period of the ‘60s and ‘70s during which Italy produced some of the most beautiful and elegant cars in history.
If we all recognize the names Bertone, Pininfarina and Giugiaro – great design entrepreneurs, besides being designers themselves – almost no one recognizes the names and faces of the real protagonists of what has been defined as the Italian Automotive Renaissance: an entire generation of designers (they were called “stylists” at the time) and artisans that created prototypes that made millions of people the world over dream, and whose names –at least at first glance – were destined to remain unknown to the public and hidden behind those of the businessmen for whom they worked. Migliarotti’s documentary, first and foremost, gives justice to these men and recognizes their extraordinary merits. But above all, he exalts their creativity and style as talents that are quintessentially Italian and that make us view these artisans and artists as the ideal successors of the Italian creative tradition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and beyond.