-Who is Dario Cangemi?

I have been training with journalism since I was 18 years old. Then my love for cinema made me realize that I didn’t just want to tell the story, but to try to do it. To create, through research and study, my own look. Always with the same curiosity that I had since childhood: the investigation of reality, verism, the condition of the human being.

-What inspired you to become a filmmaker?

When I was eight years old, when my friends were watching cartoons, swapping pokemon, or watching the first disney TV series, I would watch A Clockwork Orange and be fascinated. That uncanny fascination that makes you realize that what you’re seeing is not just a great show, but something you want to be a part of your life. That you want to become your own life. Maybe at that moment I realized that I wanted to tell stories, in its many forms.

-Do you think the film industry today has been damaged by political correctness?

I think so, we see it a lot especially in the genre of Italian comedies produced in the last ten years. I don’t always think it’s a negative thing, rather it’s negative the production mechanism by which now already upstream, in the pre-development stage, you have to impose limits on yourself. That damage the quality. This, as a viewer, is something I notice less in America. It then depends, of course, on the genre. It’s a very complex issue –What would you change in the world? Everything, or maybe nothing. It is too difficult a question, and like all difficult questions the answers are likely to be trivial or unsatisfactory. I think first and foremost I would change how the younger generation grows up alongside social and how social is damaging the mental health of those under 40.

-If you could ask a question to a great director from the past, who would you like to talk to and what would you ask them?

Today more than ever I would like to converse with Lynch. To even have the privilege of being able to ask him a question. I would probably ask him if it was true what he said when he talked about his way of making films. That his language he didn’t study it too much first, he dreamed about it, and then he tried to put it out there. And so I would ask him, if simply through intuition, vocation, it would be possible to be as brilliant as he was.

-Where do you see the film industry going in the next 100 years?

In my opinion, in the next ten years there will be a big jump back (thankfully) to the past. I see that many young producers like me are realizing that making films means having a need, a necessity. And that this requires integrity and sacrifice. So in principle I am hopeful. And then I believe that new technology, even with artificial intelligence, will be able to do us a lot of good, beyond what some conservatives believe.