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Giulia Sabella is an Italian video journalist based in Italy. She works as a freelancer for Italian and International media outlets, and she has published videos and articles for Associated Press Television News, Internazionale, Corriere della Sera, Radio Bullets. In 2016 she spent 3 months in Ireland investigating the abortion issue and her web reportage was published in Corriere della Sera, one of the most important Italian newspapers. In 2012 she applied to the Journalism School of Perugia. As a journalist, she has worked on the migrant crisis, the Kurdish movement in Turkey, the abortion problem in Ireland but she has also covered Italian events, such as the earthquake in Amatrice. In 2007 she spent one year in Paris (France) attending a course in European Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. In June 2017 she held a course organized by the Italian Association of Journalists on the production and editing of video reportages. She is fluent in English and French. Italian mother tongue.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Production Assistant

Giacomo Bruno is a self-taught, Italian photographer and filmmaker. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy in 1991. After finishing his scientific studied in high school, and later dropping University, he decided to dedicate himself to photography, in particular to industrial still life and commercial photography. He became so a professional in 2010. It was clear, though, that his true vocation was traveling, deepening social issues and specially telling stories. He has traveled in many different countries such as Central and South America, North and South Africa, and Asia with India,Sri Lanka and China. His personal interest focus on human beings,on their cultures, working tradition with a special attention to their environment. In both photography and documentary the story develops around the portrait of one ore more characters, trying to enhance with an emotional touch, the subject and his background, as an equally important element to better tell a story. All his collections of images are a consequence of his interest and necessity in documenting with his camera everything that he finds inspiring and interesting.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer

Antonio Faccilongo is an Italian documentary photographer and filmmaker, photography professor at Rome University of Fine Arts and is represented by Getty Reportage. After graduating in communication sciences, and then obtaining a masters in photojournalism, he focused his attention on Asia and the Middle East, principally in Israel and Palestine, covering social, political and cultural issues. Documenting the aftermath of Palestinian-Israeli conflict in West Bank and Gaza Strip, he sought to unveil and highlight the humanitarian issues hidden within one of the world’s most reported conflicts, because too often it is shown only as a place of war and conflict. His long-term projects about women and their families in Palestine have received several awards and grants including World Press Photo story of the year 2021 nominee, World Press Photo in long-term projects category, FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo, Getty editorial grant, National Geographic Society Covid-19 Emergency Fund 2021 recipient, 1st prize World Understanding Award at POYi Pictures of the year International, Best color documentary at Gomma Grant, 1st prize at LuganoPhotoDays, 1st prize at Umbria World Fest, 1st prize at Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards, 2nd Prize at PhMuseum and was finalist at Visa D'or feature, Lucas Dolega award adn shortlisted at Alexia Foundation. Furthermore his long-term projects have been exhibited internationally at numerous shows and festivals including World Press Photo Festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Zoom Festival, Festival della fotografia etica, PHmuseum online photobook festival, Buenos Aires Biennial, screened at Visa pour l'image Perpignan and was included on global campaign #WomenMatter against the violence toward women made by Dysturb. His work and assignments have been published in some of the most prominent international publications including National Geographic, Time, Stern, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Geo, The Guardian, 6Mois, Paris Match, Focus, Sette, L'Espresso, Internazionale and many others.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• Sound Mixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Corporate Videographer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Drone Operator
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer

After studying photography and photojournalism, Carini worked as photo editor for NOOR Images in Amsterdam. In 2012, together with an international community of authors, he founded the PanAut Collective, a platform for dialogue, exploration and production around the visual narrative. In May 2014 he moved to Iraq where he lead Metrography, the first Iraqi photo agency until October 2015. With the photographers of the agency he has initiated, managed and curated Map of Displacement (http://www.mapofdisplacement.com) an interactive project that tells the stories of displaced Iraqis in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In his own photographic practice he works solely on long-term, multidisciplinary projects where he tries to stretch the borders of documentary photography through tight collaborations with the subjects and the use of a multitude of different mediums. Carini has trained photographers and visual storytellers in Europe and Iraq, given lectures at different institutions across the world (including DOX in Prague, ICP, Parsons and Columbia University in New York), and curated both solo and group exhibitions. Carini’s main objective is to be part of, inspire and push forward a cultural revolution in the ways and forms we produce, consume and process images and visual documents. He recently co-founded DARST, a nomadic art studio for research and production of documentary projects. He now lives and works in Sicily.

• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer
• Field Producer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Production Assistant

Stefano Marras è sociologo, fotografo e video-maker. Ha conseguito un dottorato in Sociologia Urbana nel 2008 all'Università di Milano-Bicocca. Dopo aver svolto ricerche sui rifugiati in Italia, sulle baraccopoli a Nairobi, sulla fotografia a New York, dal 2011 al 2013 si è dedicato al cibo di strada nelle metropoli latinoamericane. Nel 2012 ha creato la rete internazionale di esperti Street Food Global Network. È presidente di Street Food SQUARE, unorganizzazione no-profit che realizza ricerche scientifiche e multimedia per la promozione di buone pratiche nel settore. Sul tema, ha curato il volume "Street Foods: Culture, Economy, Health and Governance in uscita nel 2014 (Routledge). Come fotografo, ha realizzato i progetti Real Cliché: New York(ers) e East of West lungo il confine dellEuropa Orientale. Ha realizzato il video documentario Esta Es Mi Comida. Street Food Stories from South America nel quadro del progetto di ricerca Cibi di strada in movimento nel mondo e nella storia dellUniversità di Milano-Bicocca, in partenariato con Expo 2015.

• Documentary DP

My life has always been about music and sound. Starting with piano lessons when I was 8, then playing guitar and bass in various bands until the end of the 90’s when hard-disk recording became reality. While I was finishing high school, choosing a college education that involved art and multimedia seemed the only logical consequence of the need to follow my passion. I quickly started experimenting with sounds, crossing barriers between styles, always looking for unusual sonic solutions. Fast forwarding through the 2000's and all the music productions, finally in 2017 I started working on sound for video, be it experimental on-screen performances, short and feature films, or more commonly brand/corporate storytelling to which I provide location sound recording, sound design, post-production and final mix (both stereo and surround formats), for promotional campaigns or popular platforms like Sky, DAZN, AmazonPrime and Netflix.

• Music Composer
• Sound Designer
• Sound Mixer

I am a bilingual Italian/English producer and fixer with 20 years experience, I provide production services all over Italy to international companies and broadcasters. I take extra care with every possible detail so as to be able to provide my clients with a smooth and happy filming experience. Enthusiastic and hard working, I enjoy film production and team work. I love travelling and discovering new places, my job gives me an opportunity to get to know so much about my country. My family is British/Italian so I have a good understanding of both cultures and this has always been extremely useful in my work. From 2000 to 2013 I was employed as Production Manager and Head of Production at B&B Film, a dynamic and award winning documentary prodco based in Rome. I have extensive knowledge on development, financing, production and distribution of international documentaries and have worked with major international broadcasters such as arte, NDR, ZDF, BBC, NGCI, History Channel, Discovery, SV

• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Fashion Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Fixer

Massimiliano Milic is a producer and film director at Terroir Films, a company based in the cities of Milan and Trieste, Italy. He produced fictions including the US film “Duino" scheduled for release in 2024 that achieved the Italian tax credit for foreigner films. Currently he is producing the short film "Transumanza" (Transhumance) that has obtained national and regional film funds and will be filmed at the end of 2024. He is also following the development of the documentary called "As if there were no fires" focusing on wild fires in Italy and Spain due to the global warming issue. The documentary has been funded by the Italian film fund. As director, he has signed several commercials for agencies such Havas, Dentsu and Mofilm; for companies such as Generali Group, Olive Garden; for public institutions such as the Italian Tourist Board and associations such as Slow Food International. He writes and directs documentaries including “Dom” (Home, 2023), a film about the Michelin Green Star restaurant Lokanda Devetak; "Drago" (2021) deals with historical and ethnic issues on the Italian-Slovenian border; and “La Pizzeria” (2016) set in the world of food and wine with a focus on multiracial social and work issues.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Fixer
• Production Company
• Production Assistant
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Executive Producer
• Field Producer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager

Known for winning the Best Cinematography award at the Horror Screamfest in Los Angeles for the film "You Die - Get the app then die", Davide Piazzolla is a Director of Photography from Turin born in 1987. After graduating in engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin, his passion led him to move away from his previous studies to devote himself completely to cinematography, gaining experience as a filmmaker and becoming director of photography in 2016. In 2020, he joined the prestigious association of Autori Italiani della Cinematografia (AIC) as an Ordinary Member. He prefers cinematographic works and his portfolio includes 5 feature films and 12 short films, although numerous commercials and music videos are also among his works. Despite the fact that one of the main light processing techniques that characterize his style is the chiaroscuro, his versatility and ability to adapt to different genres allow him to model the light based on the film narrative and the director's vision.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Colorist

Stefano Tripodi (b. 1980) is an editorial, interiors, food & lifestyle photographer based in Italy. His work is mainly focused on the photographic storytelling, crossing territories, discovering craftsmen, visiting art spaces, looking at the world in a lifestyle key. His projects are commissioned by leading international magazines, agencies and manufacturing companies. Stefano has taught storytelling in several workshops and institutions. He is currently Visiting Lecturer at the Domus Academy (NABA) in Milan. Clients and Partnerships Wall Street Journal, National Geographic USA, Die Zeit, Departures, Conde Nast Traveler USA, La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Mondadori, Campari, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Sundance Film Festival, Politecnico di Milano, Fondazione Prada, Salone del Mobile, Voodoo Deluxe Agency, Unione Europea, Rai Cinema, Biotherm, L’Oreal, Pitti Uomo, McCann Worldgroup, Mercedes Benz, IBM Italia, 2DM Management, Neuland + Herzer GmbH Agency, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Time Inc., Creative Mag, Ferretti Group.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer

Based in Rome, travelling through the Mediterranean, the Sahel and West Africa. I focus on human trafficking, transnational crime, conflicts, borders and human stories. From 2016 to 2021, I've been covering extensively migration and jihadist threats in Niger. I've been a recipient of the Evens Foundation Geopolitics Prize (2022), of the True Story Award (Special mention, 2019), of the Media Migration Award (2017) and a grantee of Journalism Fund, the European Journalism Center and the International Press Institute. I contribute to Italian and international outlets, such as La Repubblica, Internazionale, L'Espresso, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, The New Humanitarian, The Correspondent, Mèdiapart, Paris Match, Deutsche Welle, Open Migration, Profil. As a consultant, I worked with Amnesty International, Privacy International, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, The World Bank, Concord Europe, Coopi and others.

• Reporter / Journalist
• Production Company
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Creative Director
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• Production Assistant
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Transcriber
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Luca Santese(1985) studied at Monza’s Art institute and at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan. While attending the academy he worked like assistant in Alex Majo- li’s studio and in 2008 he founded the collective Cesura: an independent group of photographers aimed to create photojournalism, documentary and artistic research projects. In 2009 he was selected by Photolucida Critical Mass as a new talent. In 2010 he was selected by the World Press Photo prizewith the project Detroit 2009-2010 and in the same year he exhibited for the first time the project Found Photos in Detroit at Le Bal Space in Paris, to which followed exhibitions at the Kulturhuset in Stockholm, at the OGR in Turin and at the MoCP in Chicago and numerous further international exhibitions. In 2012 he published the Found Photos in Detroit book with Arianna Arcara. The book has collected seven nominations as the best photographic book of the year and was selected by Martin Parr and Garry Badger for the series: Photo- book: A History Vol III, which collects the 200 best books after the second world war. The curatorial experience of Found Photos in Detroit continued in the Italy & Italy project, a book that collects a selection of images of the city of Rimini in the 90s: the breakdown of the Berlusconi's Italy in its maximum worldly fulfillment. In 2019 is the curator of Immaginario, the the archive exhibition of Touring club Italiano, which is now currently exhibited at Palazzo Lombardia. Today Santese's work is concentrated in the production of research photography. He continues to deal with experimental documentary photography as in the recent projects Realpolitik and Festa. Santese's work has been published and exhibited in Europe, Russia and the United States. https://lucasantese.cargo.site/ http://www.cesura.it

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Creative Director
• Reporter / Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Event Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Landscape Photographer

Marco P. Valli (1989) is an Italian photographer based in Milan. After graduating in 2009 from the Art Institute of Monza, where he began to approach photography, in 2010 he attended the Art Academy of Brera before specializing in 2011 at CFP Bauer, a photography school in Milan. In March of the same year he began an internship at CESURA, an independent group of photographers founded in 2008 that produces photographic projects ranging from reportage to documentary photography and research, mainly following the work of the artistic director of the group, Alex Majoli (Magnum Photos). After this period he became part of the group as photographer and internal contributor. Marco has been part of CESURA until January 2016, producing personal and collective projects. In November 2017, after a few years of research into the subject of sexuality, he made his first book along with Anna Adamo and published by Cesura Publish: Bakeca, a photographic research on exhibitionism as a form of sexual expression. In 2018, together with Luca Santese, he developed the project Realpolitik, a satirical analysis of the Italian political situation after the elections of March 4, 2018, which is published periodically through a series of volumes. Marco’s works have been published by national and international magazines such as Time, Vogue, Libèration, L’Espresso, Vanity Fair, Internazionale, Vice, Il corriere della sera and Il Sole 24h. Currently he’s still producing individual projects, focusing his work mainly on documentary photography and research in artistic sector.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Fixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News

Francesco Bellina (Trapani, 1989) is a documentary photographer based in Palermo. His artistic work focuses mainly on contemporary socio-political issues with particular attention to the theme of migration. He attended the Law faculty in Palermo and simultaneously dedicated himself to photography. Part of his work has been published on major international medias such as The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, Paris Match, Le Monde, Internazionale, L’Espresso, Washington Post, among others. For over two years (2017-2018) Francesco has been working with Save the Children and the association Zen Insieme to give photography classes to children in the popular district Zen in Palermo. Right now he’s working on the ongoing project "Oriri", that follows the interlace of criminal organizations working on sex trafficking and voodoo rituals in Benin, Niger, Ghana and Sicily. His work Tanakra, that depicts the city of Agadez in Niger, has been exhibited at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. In 2019 he held a lecture at the World Press Photo exhibition in Bari, Torino and Palermo (Italy) about one of his latest project On a Gagné, a series of photos taken on board of the ship Mare Jonio during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea. In 2016 and 2017 he was nominated for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

I’m an Italy specialist with a wealth of experience as a field producer, researcher, location manager/fixer for high-quality factual films, both for broadcast and theatrical release. I’ve also worked - and continue to work extensively - in news & current affairs and on TV commercials, and more recently also on substantial promotional events for UK clients. I’ve worked on legions of television documentary films, mainly for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, PBS, Discovery Channel, National Geographic and other major broadcasters, on films about archaeology, art, biography, food, history, politics, science and sport. For ABC News I worked as an assignment editor and news segment producer in the UK, and in Italy as a field producer, off-air reporter and news editor. I worked as a Broadcast Manager for NBC Olympics at the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games, and in Italy as a freelance producer for CNN, a print stringer for UPI and Jane’s Defence Weekly. I’m British – an English mother-tongue speaker with fluent Italian, good French and basic Spanish.

• Field Producer
• Fixer
• Portrait Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Gaffer
• Grip
• Full-Service Live Production
• Reporter / Journalist

In 2003 and 2004 Riccardo Dogana was selected for a course in photography financed by the European Union followed by a course in Directing conducted by Silvio Soldini in 2005 In the same year he attended a course in documentary photography held by Tarak Ben Abdullah (A.I.C). He also undertook a period of photographic education following the Polish photographer Maciek Nabrdalik and the famous Iranian photographer Abbas (Magnum) Nowadays he works as Video Camera Operator and Freelance Photographer including working for BRW and Partners in Milan for Barilla and Mulino Bianco. In 2014 and 2015 he worked with the Director David Deveson shooting material in 360° for projection in the Italian Pavillion in Milan for EXPO 2015. This project was sponsored by Ferrero and involved working in Turkey, Ghana, Amazonia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Spain. From 2015-2017 He has also worked in Nepal, Lebanon,Tanzania, SriLanka and India for international charity company Dubai cares. He worked in a Head producer Conversion Picture. He is now freelance available for new adventures.

• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Commercial DP
• Production Assistant

PROSPERO BOZZO is the founder of Frame Makers , 25 years professional experience as DoP / Producer Shot in more than 50 countries from operational and residential base in Europe, to Africa, Americas and Asia. Documentary , feature,reportage, blue chip corporate and television projects, considerable experience in international current affairs having shot for the most important worldwide tv programmes. Member of: EDN , FFC Doc/it , GTC Professional Journalist since 1992 CREDITS 2015 “REFETTORIO AMBROSIOANO NHK 60’ min DP “THE MAFIA IN AUSTRALIA” ABC AU 2 X 60’ DP 60 MINUTES “RACE FOR LIFE” NINE NETWORK 2 X 30’ DP “FRANCOIS LOUBOUTIN” BROOK LAPPING 30’ DP “FIFA FOOTBALL” PITCH INTERNATIONAL DP 2014 “THE VATICAN” LUX VIDE/ DISCOVERY 60’ DP 2013 MAFIA'S SECRET BUNKER BBC TWO / LION TV 1 X 60' DP MAFIA BUNKER HISTORY CH/ STANDBYME) 1 X 90' 2011/12 “VENEZIA PRONTO INTERVENTO “ LIONTV/NATGEOTV 6X 30’ “VENICE 24/7 “ LIONTV/BBC 4 6

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I am a freelance photographer and journalist based in Italy. I write articles, interviews and carefully captioned photo essays in Italian and English. I focus on human stories framed in their cultural context to delve into social, political and economic ramifications. I pay special attention to evolution of traditional lifestyles adjusting to new realities, with attention to climate change’s impact. I have worked in Europe, Middle East, South America, Pacific Ocean and the Balkans. From 2011 to 2017 I was based in Ankara, Turkey. I covered mass protests in 2013-2014, terrorist attacks in 2015-2016 and the Syrian refugees crisis. I reported live from Ankara during the 2015 coup attempt for major international outlets. In 2017-2019 I covered Turkey’s relations with Italy and EU. After a forced hiatus, I am now based in Genoa, traveling as much as I can to cover stories with social, cultural or visual value. I am reachable via email or WhatsApp and Signal.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer

Storyhunter Team! My name is Josh Garcia and a videojournalist and host/personality based in Los Angeles. I went to school for my degree in Environmental Science and wound up working in utility rooms as an efficiency retrofit engineer. It was a decent living but NOT what I envisioned for my life, so I made the switch to videojournalism to educate the world about our delicate planet, it's inhabitants and all that we can do to save it! No I don't have dreadlocks, but I can finally say, I LOVE WHAT I DO! And when you love what you do, you get really good at it. My favorite topics have to do with natural phenomenon and mother nature. I've covered food, travel, red carpet, natural disasters, interviews, informationals and documentaries of sorts. I even do weddings and private events to make sure rent is paid. ;) I've worked with tribes in Costa Rica, I've hunted for Glow in the Dark Mushrooms in Brazil (I look great in a beard) I've done a 1700 mile bike ride from NYC to Newfoundland, and I have a ton of super exciting new projects I'm determined to complete for 2014. No plans to slow down here! Hope you guys will consider me. High fives from LA! Josh Garcia

• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer

I'm a indy filmmaker and documentarist. I'm from north Italy (Vicenza, near Venice) but I'm living in Naples since seven years. In Venice I obtained a Master graduation making a video-portrait about a prostitue who was living in the station ("Julì"). In Naples I've autoproduced some docu-shorts about street's life of childrens (scugnizzi), the memory of a missionary muralist, suburbs life and poverty conditions, and Romanian musicians for a collective italian documentary called "Napoli 24" (with important italian directors like Paolo Sorrentino, Pietro Marcello, Bruno Oliviero,ecc.). I've realized also some fiction's shorts and the last produced ("The neighbour") will be distribuited in some international festivals. Now I'm working about other film's themes like precariousness and solitude in the city's life, and I'm writing a docu-project about a street's clown-musician who survives making his art and lives in a little room above the building's roof.

• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer