About
Linda Paganelli is a visual anthropologist and filmmaker. Her primary areas of interest are human rights in war zones, the relationship between power and minorities, refugees and migrants, history of art and contemporary art. Her work is deeply rooted in her anthropological background and seeks to analyse and deconstruct existing ideas around values and stereotypes.
After completing with honours her Bachelor Degree in Social Studies at the Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna (Italy) she moved to London where she specialized in Visual Anthropology following a Master Degree at Goldsmiths.
She worked, since 2009, as Freelance director mainly on short and long documentaries for TVs, production companies, magazines online, NGOs campaigns, art galleries, universities, and newspaper online.
She has worked in conflict zones like Afghanistan and Palestine/Israel and on sensitive issues in Europe (specially United Kingdom and Italy) and Nicaragua where she gained access to dangerous places and ‘hard to reach’ social groups, found incredible stories, and delivered great videos in content and visual.
Linda is member and founder of an independent collective of European video makers that aims at portraying segments of the contemporary world with a particular attention to the transformations within societies in the post-capitalistic era.