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RALIAN tax credit field. Tototravel project and italian selective audiovisual contributions.

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20 Italian regions in 20 days. An unconventional journey to an extraordinary place. The year is the right one: 2020, one of the years that we have massively perceived as ominous, but the right year to carry out resilient projects. To the year in which the pandemic left its trail of deaths and privations that accompanied us, shaken, frightened, forced to change our lifestyle, TOTOTRAVEL was able to respond with a resilient, eco-sustainable, extreme project to live on the wings (or rather on the wheels) of freedom, bringing hope, the desire to live and succeed in one of the most beautiful countries in the world, one of the first to suffer the serious consequences of COVID – 19.

A project that immediately found our consent and our interest in the idea, subject and script of the documentary that would summarize this epic in a modern and eco-sustainable key, capable of perfectly combining culture and environment, tourism and hope, resilience and creativity.

Protagonists of the company are Eng. Salvatore Magliozzi, charismatic and eclectic General Manager of TOTOTRAVEL (https://www.tototravel.it/) traveler and author of successful books, the caterpillars Qui Quo and Fausto who at the end of the journey have become wonderful butterflies, the symbol of hope and of life and rebirth, an electric scooter and the 20 Italian Regions, exalted and experienced in their typical landscape and natural beauties, food and wine, cultural and historical as well as receptive.

The message is clear and fully shareable, centered on the fundamental drivers that must give impetus to the recovery made in Italy taking into account the European objectives in terms of Green Deal and zero impact. All conveyed by a documentary that is making the rounds of the web and for the realization of which RALIAN has sided in the front line, providing the necessary assistance to the presentation of the application for participation in the call for selective contributions for screenplays of the first window that MIBACT opened in 2020 to encourage the development of audiovisual works conceived by young Italian authors.

Today we are pleased to provide you with a video of the 20 Regions enterprise in 20 days, a small excerpt from the documentary presented at the selections, which kindly Eng Magliozzi and the TOTOTRAVEL staff wanted to prepare for us, a video for which we thank them.

Creativity and resilience are at the heart of the challenge posed by the pandemic. We will start to travel again and do it in an eco-sustainable way, we will return to conviviality and Italian hospitality, we will reopen the doors of our cities, we will dust off our works, we will offer them back to the world, we will protect our landscape beauties, our villages, we will tell you our story again in front of a glass of wine from our lands, without ever giving in to discouragement. We must be like the caterpillars that do not know that they will soon become butterflies, but live the moment of waiting with trust and hope. One day they will soar in the sky and cheer the planet with their multicolored wings.

 

We must be like the caterpillars who do not know that they will soon become butterflies but live the moment of waiting with trust and hope. One day they will soar in the sky and cheer the planet with their multicolored wings.

At the moment the MIBACT windows  for audiovisual tax credit applications and selective contributions for screenplays are closed. The last window ended in November. In these months, the Ministry will form the rankings for the acceptance of applications for funding of the works and we sincerely wish TOTOTRAVEL to be financed this extraordinary project.

While waiting for the reopening of the MIBACT 2021 calls, we invite film production companies that are interested in Tax credit and all scriptwriters to contact us to explore with us the set of possibilities offered in this sector and understand methodologies and useful documentation for the insertion of the practice, as soon as the ministry gives it a chance through the announcement.

Each of us indulges in a TV series at the end of the evening on the various platforms that today are replacing cinemas that have remained closed due to the pandemic. Behind those series, those films, there are people, stories, work, ideas. And those ideas deserve the opportunity to participate in the contributions made available to the MIBACT for the audiovisual because the cinema, the audiovisual spread culture, unite people, tell our story or the story we would like to live, give us dreams and smiles,  tears and strong emotions, hope and desire to succeed.

The audiovisual industry is a cluster of strategic importance. Each film, each documentary or TV series creates income for families and workers, generates induced activities, multiplies the economic effects, stimulates tourism and builds awareness. Never before has selective contributions and tax credit been oxygen for many production companies. and for many directors / authors / screenwriters.

We look forward to seeing you at the next window. Please watch the video of 20 Regions in 20 days. We thank TOTOTRAVEL for the trust placed in our advisory and for the continuous and fruitful collaboration.

A virtual coffee with Riccardo Fuochi, an illustrious protagonist of national and international luxury logistics.

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We stopped in Milan, this time to talk about another fundamental theme for recovery, always drinking a virtual coffee to consume while we talk with another illustrious guest. We wanted to reserve a space of conversation on one of the fundamental clusters of Italian economic life: culture and art, undisputed symbols of a Country, ours, which boasts an absolute primacy for history, for historical artifacts, for illustrious undisputed artists and geniuses that the whole world envies us. Let’s not exaggerate if we say that more than half of the artworks exhibited in museums around the world are attributed to Italian artists.

Culture, in our country system, accounts for about 6% of GDP. The sector is certainly not a discovery, it is an extraordinary driving force for the other production sectors connected to it and above all it is one of the key factors in attracting tourists from all corners of the world.

Internationally, Italy is recognized as a leader and the movement of foreign tourists who choose to enjoy our artistic assets every year, to visit our cities of art, our places of culture, is the incontrovertible proof of this. Our added value doesn’t stop there. We are a real open-air museum, a natural scenario capable of catapulting the visitor into every historical era. We could define Italy as a “Special Cultural Zone” which lacks an official recognition that takes into account the enormous potential of the system capable of “boosting” the economic system, combining tax exemption efficiency and the artistic heritage supplied. Where, if not in our beautiful Italy, we reiterate in all respects definable as a special cultural area, it is possible to draw from the culture, from the history of the inherited artistic heritage, from the breathtaking landscapes, from the food and wine culture of the UNESCO heritage, direct and induced economic advantages with efficient taxation and deburocratization policies? We launch a provocation that we hope will be caught by those who work in the cultural system. In addition, to stimulate the interest of potential investors … Montecarlo, Luxembourg, Geneva, Singapore, Dubai. What do these cities have in common? All have free zones for works of art that allow the artistic heritage of collectors and investors from all over the world to be guarded, transferred, protected and preserved in a protected atmosphere. Not only. Within these free zones it is possible to buy works of art and valuable goods without the application of customs duties and indirect taxes. Of course, it is necessary that these “special areas” operate in the transparency of the operations guaranteeing all parties and, above all, legality. It would also allow to further increase the professionalism of the artistic evaluation services, the recovery of artistic assets located in numerous caveau (usually managed by banks) and concentrate them in a single place that guarantees not only confidentiality but also a set of logistic services that are essential for the conservation over time and space of the works kept. Moreover, the 2018/843 directive on anti-money laundering requires strict checks on the actual beneficiaries of the asset in order to avoid twisted maneuvers that, through fictitious attribution systems, conceal sinister illegal operations. The combination of free zones, including Special Economic Zones, and logistics in this case becomes the efficient solution capable of protecting and protecting artistic and valuable goods without risk to the owner and without the value of the asset itself being reduced due to damage or transport trauma, but there are also enormous advantages for the entire museum circuit. We welcome our virtual coffee to another exceptional guest known all over the world. Today Riccardo Fuochi is with us, who is an important point of reference in the logistics supply chain sector, positioned on the luxury brand segment, which is essential in the evaluation of artistic works, in their storage and in their handling.

RALIAN: Dr. Fuochi, you are an institution in the logistics sector, in particular among many things, you are president of OLG international sarl based in Chiasso and president of the International Propeller Club of Milan. What does your business do and what does the activity of the Propeller Club consist of?

Dott. Fuochi: OLG International is an international company born after having acquired a long experience in the fashion logistics sector for the main luxury brands. Its main office is in Chiasso, where there is a logistics center for works of art, fine wines and precious objects with a development also overseas in Hong Kong. We have developed niche know-how for lifestyle logistics. We continue to offer our services to numerous fashion brands, so we take care of following interior design, visual merchandising and events projects, and we have developed a structure capable of offering a series of services related to the world of artworks and precious objects . We follow galleries, collectors, artists and auction houses trying not only to offer purely logistic transport and storage services, but following them in all their packaging needs, customs and ministerial issues, art handling, condition reports, we offer the possibility to restore the works at our facility, photograph them, show them to experts, exhibit them and archive them in blockchain. The Propeller is a cultural association that promotes the meeting and relationships between people who gravitate to the world of shipping, transport and logistics. It favors training and technical and cultural updating among all those belonging to the economic and professional categories that gravitate to the world of shipping, transport and logistics, organizing meetings, conferences, events, missions also at an international level. Among the most important events I would like to mention the Shipping Weeks in Genoa and Naples and the Shipping Meets Industry in Milan.

Ralian: Culture is the cradle of innovation. Through culture we stimulate creativity and thanks to it we give life to innovation. In your opinion, is culture perceived in our country as a real cluster or do we still have an obsolete vision of its multiplicative potential on the economic system?
Dr. Fuochi: The current emergency has certainly been positive in this respect, it has accelerated innovative and digital development in all sectors, including the cultural one. Certainly culture is perceived as a cluster in its own right, but an evolution is also necessary in this sector to allow the dissemination and creation of international projects. Museums are creating beautiful innovative and digital projects, as well as private galleries. The range of action is decidedly wide, but somewhere you have to start.

Ralian: Creativity and art have always been the highest form of beauty, of human expression. Very often immortal masterpieces have been inspired by human and social hardships, by situations of suffering in the body and spirit, sometimes they have been the denunciation of an injustice, the awareness of a necessary turnaround that has inspired whole epochs of our humanity. It is therefore the highest expression of resilience. In this complicated period in which an unprecedented economic depression is feared, how can art help us and how can it be made accessible to everyone, so as to spread its beneficial and resilient message?
Dr. Fuochi: By educating people to appreciate art in all its expressions, visual arts, performing arts, theater, cinema, music, dance by combining various forms within paths, events, manifestations and combining them with local traditions, thus involving the whole population . All this also aimed at improving living conditions, respecting the environment and culture of the individual territories.

Ralian: What does Italy need to ensure that the art sector, of which our country is the natural cradle for authors, finds, history, landscape beauty, find a leading role in the economic system?
Dr. Fuochi: “culture is the only good of humanity which, divided among all, instead of decreasing becomes greater.” [Cit. Hans Georg Gadamer]
Enhancement. Italy is the country with the largest concentration of artistic and cultural heritage in the world, but not only the historical and past one that attracts tourists from all over the world every year, but also the contemporary one. There are many young people who train every year in our academies to improve their artistic expression and break the canonical schemes and be appreciated by those who observe their works. There are certainly many interesting initiatives, but the enhancement and importance of our territory rich in villages, monuments and historic centers could be further improved and redeveloped and recovered. There is no corner of our country from which beauty, history and culture do not emerge. This immense heritage must be recovered with economic and fiscal measures aimed at attracting investments, including from private individuals, to encourage cultural, artistic and commercial activities, creating areas that we could define as real “special cultural zones”, paraphrasing the concept of SEZs.

Ralian: What do you think are 5 artworks that can help us to understanding that the greatest beauty can come from the ugliest and most complicated things to deal with?
Dr. Fuochi: There are many artworks that can express these feelings. It is inherent in the soul of the artist to be inspired by moments of difficulty to express values ​​of hope and beauty. I could represent some great masterpieces such as:
1. the flagellation of Christ by Piero della Francesca, describes the Christian ignavia in the face of the Turkish advance preceding the fall of Constantinople. The realization will lead to the union of papacy and empire and to the battle of Lepanto.
2. the deposition of Christ by Raffaello, Atalanta rejected his son Grifonetto, who through insane jealousy had participated in the massacre of the red wedding of the Baglioni of Perugia. The repression led him to death and his mother mourned him and made Raphael commemorate him representing him as a divine young man, who bears the feet of the dead Christ … maternal love …
3. massacre of the innocent, by Rubens, the reference to the wars of religions that tormented Antwerp and Flanders, with thousands of innocent civilians killed, is expressed as a beastly madness in Rubens’ masterpiece, whose commitment to peace has always been very vivid
4. Giuditta and Holoferne of Caravaggio The Jewish widow Giuditta beheads the Babylonian general Holoferne: there are many interpretations, but it is certain that reluctant Giuditta performs the will of God for the liberation of her people, which can also be read as a victory of purity, represented by the young and beautiful heroine, on brute force.
5. Guernica of Picasso 1937 German bombing of the Spanish city that upsets French public opinion and leads Picasso to express his disdain in the masterpiece exhibited immediately in Paris at the universal exhibition, helping to awaken free souls and support the indomitable spirit that resisted the subsequent defeat and occupation

Ralian: You deal with logistics. How do you combine this sector with that of culture, art and what do you think are the best practices to consider for an optimization of the entire reference cluster?
Dr. Fuochi: Have you ever wondered how works arrive in museums, how do loans between countries take place for exhibitions? Rather, what happens from the moment a collector buys a work in a gallery and ends up in our house? Here is the link between the logistics sector and the art sector. We take care of this. First of all to create a relationship of trust with the interlocutor – gallery / collector / personal assistant / banks / art advisor / artists – and to be able to assist him in all operations, without leaving him any worries, but rather reassuring him and working in the utmost confidentiality. We take care of training people in the best possible way so that they are able to handle the works of art and assist customers: we start with a documentary check to verify that everything is in order or to request what is necessary, we create the suitable packaging for transport, we draw up a condition report when we collect and when we deliver the work, we take out insurance, we evaluate the means to be used and the number of people necessary for transport, we employ a team of art handlers who can take care of the installation. In short, we follow all the aspects that allow us to transfer the works with the utmost attention from one place to another.

 


We thank Dr. Fuochi for sharing his expertise with us and for allowing us to draw many ideas for a relaunch of the culture sector, as expressed at the beginning of the article.
We are preparing for another virtual coffee and we will see you soon.

 

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Phase 2, Italy as Genoa.

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Phase two must necessarily pass through concrete proposals for administrative simplification, the provision of instruments for accelerating economic development capable of enhancing the extraordinary entrepreneurship that our country has in its economic system. Our “made in Italy” brand is recognized all over the world and needs an extraordinary relaunch. Through special economic zones, customs free zones, simplified logistic zones it is possible to accelerate an economic recovery for a new Italian miracle. Tax exemption accompanied by a massive simplification, together with an essential infrastructure enhancement both in terms of logistics and in terms of stimulating public spending, will push consumption and production upwards for the benefit of our GDP.

The moment of forced stasis makes us reflect on the necessary co-responsibility and participation of citizens in the political-allocative choices of our political representatives. The model used so far has failed miserably by mortifying health, education, culture and innovation, the only pillars that have kept us alive, while collapsing on themselves, in recent months.
There will be no other possibility. Plan with foresight, facilitate businesses, invest in infrastructure, education, health, enhance the social role of culture and creativity, bet on the innovation that derives from it.
Special attention is paid to tourism, the great absence of the programs. The sector generates an important part of GDP and distributes wealth across the entire chain. You can’t just wait. The sector must be supported concretely and restructured also with acceleration logics as happens in other parts of the world (Dubai, for example).

RALIAN has been working tirelessly in recent weeks on a development program that will be fundamental for the next few years. From here we will start to make our voice heard even more on the issues we care about. Our daily commitment in recent months has been, is and will be in this sense. We are an active part in relaunching the Italian post-COVID economy – 19. And we are proud and grateful for this. Silently, stubbornly and incessantly.

The picture of Genoa that proudly shows its reconstructed  Morandi bridge is the warning that inspires our hearts. Italy is there. Italy does not stop like Genoa did not stop. Italy like Genoa does not let itself be overwhelmed by events but reacts, roars, gets up, rebuilds itself, superb, proud and proud.

We want to feel an arrow touch our heart and there in the heart explode. We want to hear that “L’Italia s’è desta ” (, Italy has awakened, as our  National anthem says), once again, in front of the eyes of the world, especially in front of the eyes of that part of the world that told us that we Italians would not have made it.

Simplifying. Reducing taxes. Investing. Relaunching. Taking part. Programming. Starting again.  Flying.