Hasta La Ideas

Up above you see snippets of exotic cars. What you don’t see are the faces of the Italian men, now in their 70s and 80s, who designed them. “Almost everything we know about cars, we conclude unconsciously from [the] silhouette, face, details,” writes Gianluca Migliarotti. “Isn’t [it] strange that people who shaped our dreams through design [remain] virtually unknown?”

Filmmaker Migliarotti and automotive historian Daniel Tomicic are trying to rectify that with Driving Dreams, their documentary focusing on the second golden era of car design—the one that came not from America, but from Italy. In addition to looking at the big dogs like Giorgetto Giugiaro and Marcello Gandini, the DD team seeks to lens lesser-known but influential designers like Tom Tjaarda (who designed the DeTomaso Pantera), Aldo Brovarone (Ferrari Dino Berlinetta Speciale), Paolo Martin (Ferrari Modulo) and others. Here’s the trailer:

Like what you see? Then help fund it–the team is running an IndieGogo campaign to finance the doc here.

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