Stefano Salvati

Stefano Salvati as director and producer has made films, music videos, commercials, music programs for television and theatrical performances. In the video clip sector he is considered the most important Italian author of all time. He has directed video clips and music broadcasts for many Italian singers: Vasco Rossi, Zucchero, Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Eros Ramazzotti, Laura Pausini, Antonello Venditti, Renato Zero, Paolo Conte, Riccardo Cocciante, Fiorello, Biagio Antonacci, Max Pezzali and 883, Gianna Nannini, Gianni Morandi, Fabrizio De Andrè, Giorgia, Gianluca Grignani, Irene Grandi and many others. He has also directed some foreign artists, including Sting, Aerosmith, Billy Preston, Tony Childs, Toquinho etc. He directed with Roman Polanski the video clip "Gli Angeli" by Vasco Rossi; the video was presented at the Venice Film Festival and won numerous awards around the world. Salvati was a partner with Polanski in Castelnuovo Films for 11 years In Salvati's video clips and commercials, famous Italian stars (Stefano Accorsi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Raul Bova, Franco Nero, Gina Lollobrigida etc.) and international stars (Sharon Stone, Angelina Jolie, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi, Gerard Depardieu, Laetitia Casta, Claire Forlani etc.). Some of these stars started their careers with Salvati Some videos of him have won numerous awards in Italy and around the world. Some examples: Sting's "Fields of gold" was awarded Best French Video of 1998. Zucchero's "Mint and Rosemary" finished third at the Cannes "Special Effects Awards" and third at the MTV Awards Latino. Bocelli's "Con te partirò" was awarded as Best German Video. In 1998 the media all over the world talk about him, because Madonna is accused of plagiarism. The American star allegedly copied a video by Salvati himself, shot in 1994 for an Italian singer (Biagio Antonacci), for the making of her video "Ray of lights". He worked as an author in 1992 on Federico Fellini's last work, which remained unfinished due to the death of the master. He has worked in various theatrical performances of operas ("Barber of Seville", "Pagliacci" etc.). With Bocelli he worked in Massenet's Werther. He has worked on television with various dance companies, including Moses Pendleton's Momix. Some of the most important directors of photography in world cinema have collaborated with Stefano such as Vilmos Zsigmond, Wally Pfister, Ennio Guarnieri, Maurizio Calvesi and many others. With Carlo Lucarelli, one of the greatest Italian writers, he has written 5 film screenplays and more than a hundred subjects for video clips. He held directing internships in Italy and around the world (NUCT, ACT Multimedia, Bologna audiovisual experimental laboratories, University of Bologna, etc.) In 1998 he made "Jolly blu" the film of 883 (for the homevideo market, it was released a few days in 6 theaters as a presentation of the event). 180,000 videotapes of "Jolly blu" were sold in a few months (third collection of the year) and reached almost 5 million viewers on Italia 1 (one of the highest ratings ever for Italia 1). In 2005 he directed the feature film "E solo un rock'n'roll show" with Vasco Rossi, the first example in the world of movieclip, an operation that mixes cinema with video clips. In 2008 he wrote the book "Albakiara", from which his first film for cinema was based In 2010 he was the creator of the show of "The other half of the sky". He then assists Vasco Rossi in writing the dramaturgy. In 2012 Stefano staged "The other half of the sky" at the Teatro alla Scala and it was a triumph for audiences and critics. The CD of the show, with the music of Vasco himself, after 2 weeks is officially platinum for 110,000 copies sold (fourth best-selling classical music CD in the world in 2012) From 2012 Stefano began to devote himself to production and management. From 2012 to 2013 he was manager of Vasco Rossi For Vasco he produced and conceived: LiveKom 2013 as Executive Co-Producer (4 concerts at the Turin stadium and 3 at the Bologna stadium, all sold out). creator and president of the VascoRossiDancingProject from 2011 to 2013 Creator, Director and Producer of the show VascoRossiDjProject with the participation of Vasco Rossi himself (acoustic concert with 10 songs) in September 2012 at Cromie in Castellaneta Marina (Taranto) In 2015 he also restarted his activity as a director, directing various video clips and commercials including Antonello Venditti's video clip "what did you have in mind". In 2016 he conceived and wrote the international musical "The Singer", based on the life of Enrico Caruso produced by Bags Entertainment In the same year, together with FIMI, it produces the first world video clip festival, which sees its preview in Ravenna with the participation of Antonello Venditti. In 2017 Salvati produces a great musical event with Antonello Venditti and some of the most important Italian singers in collaboration with the UNESCO MAB in Comacchio. She also directs various commercials and develops TV broadcasts. In the same year Salvati with Daimon film in co-production with MN Holding and in partnership with FIMI, Sony Music, Universal music and Warner music created IMAGinACTION, the first edition of the world video clip festival in Cesena. Among the many singers also participates Sting who releases his longest television interview of his career On the occasion of the Salvati festival he produces and directs various Italian video clips of Sony Music's masterpiece songs from the past, including Antonello Venditti's "night before the exams", "the fisherman" by Fabrizio de Andre, "How deep is the sea" by Lucio From. IN 2018 Salvati produced various events (Comacchio Beach Festival with an exclusive concert by Edoardo Bennato and Alex Britti, Notte Oro Spring in Ravenna, etc.) In 2018 he is again co-producer and artistic director of IMAGinACTION 2018. The guest star of the festival is Mark Knopfler, leader of Dire Straits, who presents the new album exclusively for the whole world Also in 2018 he directed various commercials and video clips including "Mastro Geppetto" by Edoardo Bennato and for the series of "masterpieces imagined", the official video clips of "a long love story" by Gino Paoli and "Gianna" by Rino Gaetano. In 2019 he directed various commercials and some videoclips "imagined masterpieces" and the new video by Renato Zero ("the showcase"). He produces various cultural and musical events including the Comacchio Beach Festival which saw Anastacia perform (the only date in the world of 2019) In 2019 he is for the third time the artistic director of IMAGinACTION In 2020 Salvati, as spokesperson for the entire Italian discography, convinces the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Franceschini, to sign the law on video clips (tax credit). Thanks to Salvati, from January 2020 the video clips can also be considered works of art. In 2020, Salvati is the artistic director of IMAGinACTION for the fourth time, creating the largest Drive in in the world He has directed and produced other imagined masterpieces The video clip "imagined masterpiece" of Via con me by Paolo Conte was presented out of competition at the Venice Film Festival