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Francesca Mannocchi is a journalist and director. She contributes to Italian TV and italian and international magazines. In recent years, she has covered wars and the migration crisis in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Gaza, Egypt, Afghanistan and Libya. She co-directed the documentary “If I Close My Eyes,” on the lost generation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, with war photographer Alessio Romenzi. In 2016, she won the Premiolino, the most important journalistic award in Italy, for her reports in Libyan detention centers. Her last documentary 'Isis, tomorrow' has been screened at 75° Venice Film Festival. She has written 3 books.

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I am an Italian Rome based video-maker and photographer. I hold an MA in Journalism. I am a regular contributor for RSI (Swiss TV). My works have been published by The Guardian, El Pais, RaiNews24, Rai, News Deeply, Il Corriere della Sera, Vita and Il Fatto Quotidiano. I have been reporting as a video and radio journalist from the Middle East and across Europe. My current focuses are Migration, Human rights, Women issues, Middle East, LGBTIQ+ activism, Mental health, and Disability. I am member and co-founder of FADA collective.

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Freelance documentary director with a decade of experience on the field. I am deeply committed to using visual media as a powerful storytelling tool to shed light on social and environmental issues around the globe. To date, I have directed numerous short documentary films for esteemed global media outlets such as The Atlantic, Vice USA, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, The New York Post, and Internazionale.

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Alessandro Di Rienzo is a journalist and filmmaker with a degree in philosophy, he follows Middle Eastern affairs as well as national labour disputes. He has worked for nine years in the field of social mediation at the Municipality of Naples. He is the founder of Kosmopolis Association, a non-profit where he organises journalism courses for migrants.

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I have 4+ years of professional experience behind a camera, and 2+ years experience in a fast-paced newsroom and international production house in multiple roles. I am a passionate visual-storyteller and documentary filmmaker interested in covering different cultures, supporting human rights and exploring the human experience with the aim of empowering individuals towards a positive change.

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I am Fabio, I am an italian Filmaker and journalist. I have been working in the media business for more than 10 years. I make documentaries tv reportages for the major Italian and international media companies. https://www.journalismfestival.com/speaker/fabio-butera

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Filmmaker, director, cinematographer, editor, colorist. http://www.lucaimmesi.com https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Immesi

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Filmmaker, production and post-production duties a good knowledge of the Production process. Excellent communication with clients, suppliers, crew and staff, 3 languages spoken: Italian, Arabic and English.

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Born on 29 May 1981 Bogotá, Colombia. Cinema, Documentaries, Films and TV Series. I have worked in several countries such as Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Cuba, Argentina, Costa Rica and Colombia. My experience is mainly creating and producing contents of socio-cultural, musical and ethnographic nature working together with different indigenous peoples, communities of African origins, and also mestizo populations of Latin America and Central America. I have a huge work experience at Colombian production company Tiempos Modernos Cine y TV founded in 1983 by directors Víctor Gaviria and Jorge Mario Álvarez. In Bogotá I attended Black Maria Film School where I wrote and directed my first film Allá Viven los Sapos (2003) https://youtu.be/YmjD3VCqGQk at the age of 21. I have lived in Italy since 2005. In Rome I studied at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) and Paolo Sorrentino was one of my teachers. In 2009 I won the “Schools Award” at 5th Backstage Film Festival of Cesena, Italy, with the documentary Ti Stramo Backstage (2008) https://youtu.be/wPx3RSdG-mk. For more than 8 years I worked as a correspondent from Italy and Europe, with journalist Michael McCarthy for the Iranian Satellite TV Channel at PRESS TV, and with journalist Mary Villalobos for the Colombian television news at RCN and NTN 24  https://youtu.be/KrlLcv89kq8. Alacrán Soy Yo (2017) https://vimeo.com/311002655 is my second film.  This co-production between Italy and Cuba won the “Critics Award” at MUVI - International Music Film Festival of Lisbon, Portugal.

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I’m an eight years experienced freelance Video Journalist and Cameraman/Editor and I'm currently based in Rome: I regularly work with APTN, AJE, NBC and CBS among the others: I I’m used to work independently as I shoot, script and edit television news stories and packages and, obviously ftp them: I’ve been involved in all the major breaking-news stories, so I’m also used to tight deadlines and to high pressure situations. Since the beginning of 2013 October I took part in several productions (APTN, AJE) focusing on the immigration topic; I worked in Southern Italy filming the arrival of thousands of migrants on the shores of Calabria, Puglia, Sicily and Lampedusa, I took part to the Italian Navy “ Mare Nostrum” Search & Rescue operation and to the UE Frontex operation from Pantelleria. in August I was also sent by Al-Jazeera to cover the Palestinian-Israel conflict in the Occupied Territories and in Israel for one month, achieving a good knowledge of hostile environments.

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Graduated in Communication Sciences with a thesis in general sociology and social control in Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. During the years he developed a particular interest towards photographic and audiovisual production. After a first self-taught approach he studied a Master in Visual Anthropology at the University of Barcelona (UB), graduating with honors due to his work in ethnographic research Homeless family, it was his first experience like documentary director. This work was carried out during the academic year 2012-2013 and it had its premiere at the Festival of Ethnographic Film ESPIELLO XII. In 2013-2014 he studies the Master in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where he directs Binary, his second film as director. He keeps on to produce independent works like documentary, videoclip, spot and other audiovisual contents.

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Valerio Nicolosi, filmmaker and photojournalist born in Rome in 1984, has always had a passion for photography and video. In 2008 he graduated with highest honours from the ‘Experimental Television Center’ in Rome and went on to win awards from the ‘Feel the Reel International Film Festival’ as “Best Film” with “Bar(n)Out duepuntoniente”and the ‘Roma Videoclip 2016’ as “Best Videoclip with "A un passo da qui", “Paris Around International Film Festival” as “Best Trailer”, the ”European Cinematography Awards 2017” “Mediterranean Film Festival” as “Best Director” with “Bia”. He won also the “All About Photo 2018”prize for the “Travel” category with a photo from Humanitarian motor vessel “Open Arms”, “Premio Amerigo 2017” for the category “photojournalism” with the reportage “Postcards from New York” and the “Premio Montesacro 2015” ad “Best Book of the Year” with the photobook “Be Filmaker a Gaza”. He won two honorable mentions from “Asia South East - Short Film Festival' and 'Canada Shorts - Canadian International Short Film Festival' with the short film "Bia" and two honorable mentions from “ND awards” and from the contest of “The Indipendent Photographer” with the photo-reportage from the Humanitarian motor vessel “Open Arms”. He has made numerous music videos with Italian and Palestinian singer/songwriters and has published two books of short stories and photography, "Bar(n)Out" published by New Culture and "Be Filmmaker in Gaza" published by "Ass. Nat. Filmmaker ". He also works as an occasional lecturer with the ‘Audio-visual Journalism Tribune’ of the faculty of Communication Sciences at La Sapienza University and the Palestinian Al-Aqsa and Deir El-Balah, both located in the Gaza Strip. With ICRC he has made few reportages from the Syrian-Lebanon border about the crises of refugees for the switzerland television RSI and the italian newspaper Repubblica.it He collaboreted with the international press agency Reuters and leading Italian and european network and investigative journalism programs for which he has made many reportages on the issue of immigrants and in particular in the "Jungle of Calais”. Covering the terrorist attacks both in Paris and Brussels he also made a special reportage on terrorism for “Presa diretta”, an analytical news program on Italian national TV. During the months of October and November 2016 he followed the US elections making a series of reportages together with the journalist Giovanna Pancheri, broadcast by SkyTg24 and published by the website of the newspaper La Stampa. Making the documentary "Death Before Lampedusa”, ‘’Tod Vor Lampedusa’’ in german, for the German national TV, ARD, he followed the operation "Mare Nostrum" on board the Italian military vessels deployed in the recovery of boats coming from Africa. He is based in Rome where he collaborates with Associated Press.

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My name is Davide Rinaldi, an Italian videomaker and documentary filmmaker. I was born in Naples in 1982. As a director, I have worked on the following projects: - 5 TV documentary series titled "ITALIE INVISIBILI" (known internationally as HIDE ITALY), consisting of 22 episodes, each 25 minutes long, for the SKY ARTE network. - 3 TV documentary series titled "GENERAZIONE BELLEZZA," comprising 35 episodes, each 25 minutes long, for the RAI TRE network (Italian national television). - For the series "IL FATTORE UMANO" (The Human Factor), I directed 2 episodes lasting 45 minutes, including "BORDERLINE" (about migrants at the border between the USA and Mexico, featuring an exclusive interview with the director Alejandro González Iñárritu) and the episode "THE WALL OF SHAME" about the dividing wall in Lima, Peru, which segregates the wealthiest and poorest areas of the city. I have also worked as a videomaker for Italian television RAI on: RAI CULTURA & UNESCO, creating 10 video clips for Italian Heritage UNESCO sites. "REPORT", Italy's most-watched investigative journalism program, for 3 years. "SAPIENS", a prime-time program on climate change, for 3 years. My passions are: surf rock music, 1960s and 1970s Fellini films, medieval and Renaissance art, saints and portraits, ultra-wide-angle photography, and caricatures. I enjoy adding a touch of magic to the truth, capturing genuine faces and exploring unknown places. I always seek to infuse poetry even into the most concrete of projects. I currently reside in the hills near Rome, in the Castelli Romani region. I shoot with SONY FX3 SONY 24-70mm f2.8 GM TAMRON 70-200mm f2.8 LAOWA 15mm f2 DJI MAVIC MINI 3 PRO GIMBALL DJI RONIN RS2 RODE WIRELESS GO 2

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Silvestro Maccariello is a screenwriter, director and filmmaker. After his first jobs as assistant director, in 2015 he starts his authorial path with the screenplay financed by Regione Lazio of the pilot episode "ERMINIO BINTO" of which he is also director, produced by SOUND ART 23. In 2016 he writes and directs PROPHETA, a medium-length documentary and in 2017 he is the author of the fiction short film LENTI NERE, with which he wins an "Honorable Mention Drama" at the Los Angeles Film Awards, In 2017 he wins the award for young screenwriters of TV series "Milano Mon Amour" with the serial project TRENCH STORIES. He collaborates to the screenplay of the short film IN HER SHOES by Maria Iovine, selected in many Italian and international festivals and finalist at Nastri D'argento. In 2020 he writes for the company Disparte a documentary for the web on gambling entitled ROTTE DI GIOCO. In 2022 the he is screenwriter of documentary CORPO A CORPO directed by Maria Iovine, selected for Alice nella Città and nominated for the Nastri D'Argento for the Valentina Pedicini Award and in 2022 for the Globo d'Oro. Also in 2021 he shoots a short film as director entitled COSE LORO and collaborates on the writing of the documentary SUPERTEMPO by Daniel Kemeny, produced by Cineddoke, and selected at Vision du Réel in Nyon. Also coming out in 2022 is a graphic novel LA CITTA DI CAP, published by Becco Giallo, for which he is the screenwariter.

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Silvia Luzi is a indipendent journalist, copywriter, producer and director. She is professor at the MA Film Studies of Malta University and lecturer in screenwriting and journalism. She was in charge of the Foreign Affairs editorial staff of the main Italian public television RAI, for which she was also correspondent for Europe and Africa. Her documentaries and investigations are broadcast by several tv channels as RAI, The Guardian, PRESS TV; NHK; CURRENT TV; SKY; TV4. As producer, author and director she realized many award-winning documentaries receiving many awards (including the Italian Oscar nomination and New York Filmmaker Prize,). All titles are broadcast by many international tv channels and hosted by the prestigious US George Eastman House's permanent collection. Her first feature film ''Crater'' (Il Cratere) has been premiered at 74° Venice International Film Festival. Crater also got from Tommy Lee Jones the Special Jury Prize at Tokyo International Film Festival.

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Documentarist and filmmaker, passionate about the story of social issues. After a brief experience in social cooperation and local radio, he began when he was very young to collaborate with RAI the Italian public television network, discovering the passion for real life stories. For 15 years he has alternated collaborations with the television cultural channel with projects born from a personal need for human stories. In his vision, the documentary is a tool for describing social marginalities and themes often far from mass media attention. He collaborates with social projects in Rome, where he is active in the juvenile penitentiary institution and with different realities dealing with migration and marginalization. In recent years, he has founded a company with colleagues in Mexico that aims to experiment with new visual languages. Interested in contemporary time, he collaborates with online newspapers to promote awareness of the use of the web, especially among young people.

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Kami Fares is an Italian-Palestinian visual storyteller. He has a degree in Cinema at the University of Rome, a degree as Director at ACT in Cinecittà, Rome and in Documentary at the New York Film Academy. He wins the Marzocco Price with the short movies “Innocenze perdute”, where he is the screenwriter, and then it is among the finalist 12 short movies at Nastri d’Argento '12. He has realized reports and documentaries about immigration, refugees, jail, mental health, street children, etc.  After the doc "MinoTawra: exporting change”, which wins the Prime Prize at Lampedusa Festival, he makes also video reports with the press: Repubblica.it, RSI, RAI, BBC, Il FattoQuotidiano…   Thanks to an investigative reports, he wins the Bronze Medal of President of Republic Senate. He is one of the founder of a new itinerant Cinema Festival, Nazra FF.  Right now, he’s mainly working on the realization of two Docs: one is set in the main woman’s maximum security prison of Rome, Rebibbia.

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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.

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