Arzachena comes to New York. On June 4th, the New York Institute of Technology will host "The Longevity Code - Sardinia Meets East Harlem and the South Bronx," a documentary about the new Blue Zone identified by researcher Giovanni Pes in Arzachena. The Municipality supported the documentary, conceived by Pietro Mereu.
"When we decided to fund Pietro Mereu's documentary last summer, we did so with a clear vision: to demonstrate that our region is not just an extraordinary seaside tourist destination, but a unique ecosystem where quality of life, traditions, and the environment create a model of sustainable longevity," says Arzachena's mayor, Roberto Ragnedda. "The beating heart of the New York event will be the first American screening of Finding the Blue," says Ogliastra-born director Pietro Mereu. "The film recounts the journey of discovery and Arzachena's certification as a land of longevity, an international recognition validated by Professor Pes's scientific studies. Finding the Blue is not a film about longevity: it's an encounter. A meeting between science and its narrator, between a researcher and the places he has transformed into history. Cinema, in this case, is at the service of science."
The seminar will present the "CultivArte" and "All Humans are Born Equal" projects, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Teams from the NYIT School of Architecture and Design, led by Professor Alessandro Melis, are applying the parameters of the Sardinian science of longevity to regenerate and improve livability and social well-being in the New York City neighborhoods of East Harlem and the South Bronx.
