About Angelos T.

Angelos Tsaousis is a producer, director and documentary filmmaker working both on commissioned and personal projects since 2006. In 2007 he founded Filmografik_DocRepublic, an independent film production company that specializes in documentary filmmaking and immersive media. With a truthful passion for visualising impactful stories, Angelos aims through his films to raise awareness and promote a dialogue on important social issues. His debut feature documentary The New Plastic Road - https://thenewplasticroad.com/ filmed in the remote mountainous area of Pamir, acquired by the international sales agency SYNDICADO FS, was award nominated at CLOSE UP: Edinburgh DOCUFEST 2020 and was screened at HOTDOCS 2021, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2020, Sevastopol International Documentary Festival in Crimea and more. He has been a FULBRIGHT and a San Francisco Film Society fellow, has participated at numerous workshops - UNIONDOCS (New York) & EURODOC (Europe), and residencies - Santa Fe Art Institute. A visionary storyteller whose look at impactful stories is both intimate and inspiring. Far.Go.Bots - https://fargobots.com/ is his second feature documentary film, a co-production with ERT (Greek Public Broadcaster) and the Greek Film Centre, that premiered as an official selection at the main program of Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2022.

About Matteo B.

Matteo Bastianelli (b. 1985) is a freelance documentary photographer, videographer, certified drone operator, video editor and filmmaker based in Rome, Italy. He is a National Geographic Magazine contributor and a member of Italy's National Order of Journalists since 2009. Above all he works on personal and long-term projects related to social, environmental and human rights issues, with a keen interest in consequences of wars and contemporary issues affecting our society. His photographic and film projects have been published and commissioned by a number of national and international magazines, such as Al Jazeera, Burn, CNN, Corriere della Sera, Der Spiegel, Discovery Channel Interactive, D- La Repubblica, El Pais, Internazionale, International New York Times, Lens - The New York Times, L'Espresso, L'Europeo, La Repubblica, La Stampa, MSNBC, National Geographic Magazine, Newsweek Japan, PDN, Super 8-La Repubblica, Stern, Sky News, TIME Lightbox, Vanity Fair, Voice of America, Washington Post, XL Semanal, among others. Since 2016 he has also been working on assignment for NGOs such as Amnesty International, AVSI, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, Human Rights Watch and International Committee of the Red Cross. His projects have been shown in Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, The Netherlands and USA. He has received various awards for his work, among which PDN’s Photo Annual, Emerging Talent Award at Reportage by Getty Images, Canon Young Photographers’ Award, Honorable Mention from the NPPA- Best of photojournalism, finalist for the Burn Emerging Photographer Fund, Marco Bastianelli Prize for the Best First Book and "Vittorio de Seta" prize for the director of the best documentary film at BIF&ST- Bari International Film Festival 2013. In 2018 Bastianelli documented the world’s worst humanitarian disaster caused by the ongoing civil war in Yemen, focusing his attention on the resilience of civilians trapped in a life of violence and disease. His Yemen project appeared in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic Magazine and has been used worldwide by Doctors Without Borders in 2019 for advocacy campaigns to help and protect Yemeni civilians. His documentary film "Yemen Unveiled" was screened during the 2019 Human Rights Film Festival in Berlin, Germany and has been included in the Official Selection of the Health for All Film Festival 2020, organized by the World Health Organization in Geneva. In 2019 he documented various issues affecting the Mexican society between the States of Guerrero, Puebla and Oaxaca for the AVSI Foundation, realizing the documentary film “Fortaleza, México”, screened at the 15th edition of the “Short Mexico” International Film Festival. In 2020, Matteo Bastianelli started documenting the effect of the COVID-19 outbreak and resulting quarantine on Rome’s community of homeless, migrants and refugees. After fleeing from areas of conflict, these vulnerable people now face the global pandemic amid rising anti-immigrant sentiment. His project proposal was selected by the National Geographic Society and supported by the Natgeo Society’s Covid-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists.

About Nataliya N.

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About Matthew C.

Matthew Cassel is an award-winning filmmaker and multimedia journalist based in the Mediterranean region.

About Martin E.

Martin Errichiello is a filmmaker, documentary photographer and visual artist. Since 2008 he developed indipendent editorial projects, worked with film and multimedia studios in the audiovisual production and collaborated with anthropologists, musicians and directors on different projects, exhibitions and feature films. In 2010 he graduates in Visual Communication at the CFP Bauer of Milan with an internship with artist Raffaela Mariniello. In 2012 he was selected for the Visual Storytelling Master course at the Danish School of Media where he founded the international crossmedia network "Panaut Collective” and realized the awards-winning documentary "Archipelagoes". He lived, traveled and worked in Asia, Africa and Europe; he’s now based in Napoli, where he works on a mixed media long- term research about Sputhern Italy’s identity. In 2017, together with Filippo Menichetti he released the first chapter, “In Fourth Person” which has been presented, exhibited and awarded in Europe and America. His clients include: Frieze Ltd, SKY, TIME Inc, Al Jazeera, Minerva Film, Figli del Bronx Prod, Circus Studio, Kaos Produzioni, Casa Verde Prod, Maestri di Strada onlus, Andrew Fierberg (film producer), Judith Barry (Video artist), Hithertofore Prod, Refinery 29, among others."

About Angel R.

Documentary creator, photo reporter & filmmaker My work is inspired by untold stories, unsung heroes and active citizens that serve the community through bold initiatives. I treat those stories & life paths with respect- I believe it is all about emerging closely to their every day adventures, building relationships, making my work relevant. Member of https://twitter.com/Muzun_Coop

About Nikos P.

Nikos Pilos is an award-winning photojournalist and videographer currently based in Athens and Belgrade, and one of Europe’s noted feature photographers. He has traveled extensively to document war, natural disasters, poverty, socioeconomic struggle and cultural shifts. His work appears regularly in top international newspapers and magazines and has been exhibited throughout Europe and U.S. Since his first assignment in Lebanon in 1988, he has covered major historical events such as the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the wars in former Yugoslavia, the war in Iraq where he spent 100 days without being embedded and the latest Lebanese conflict. He documented the humanitarian crisis on the Libya-Tunisia border in 2011, when hundreds of thousands of refugees fled Libya during the civil war. For the past four years, he has been mainly covering the Greek and the Cypriot recession, the Istanbul uprisings, the rise of nationalism in Europe and the current refugee crisis. His photos have been featured, among others, in The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, Stern, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian, XL Semanal, Gente, Bloomberg, Internazionale, L’Esspreso and more others. LATEST AWARDS World Press photo 2017. Category: short film, second place with the documentary Trapped. POYi ,2016 Category: Exodus, second place with the story The Road Of Tears. POYi, 2016 Category: Multimedia News Story, third place with the doc, Dying to enter Europe. MIFA, 2016 Category: At the Category Moving images Documentary First place, at the Category Moving Images Professional second place, with the doc, Dying to enter Europe. Honourable mention with the photo essay, Trapped VISUALLEADER 2016 bronze metal in the category reportage, with the story “Exodus” IPA 2016 silver meatal at the category multimedia with the story Dying for Europe abd Honorable mention at the category reportage witht the story Trapped. Px3, 2016, Category General News, Gold Metal with the story Trapped. Visura Photojournalism grant 2016. Top finalist with the story “Trapped” Px3 Paris Photography 2015, Bronze metal for the story “Alevi, The Unknown People”. Fotovisura Grand 2014, Finalist for the story “Seven Years of Recession”. Px3 Paris Photography 2014, Gold medal for the story “Dying for Electricity” and Silver medal for the story “Turkey Reacts”. NPPA 2014, Honorable mention for the story “Turkey Reacts”. POYi 2014, Finalist in the World Understanding category for the story “Greece, Seven Years of Recession”. Lucie Awards, 2013, Finalist for the story “Greece, Seven Years of Recession”. PX3-Prix De la Photographie 2013, Gold medal in the Portraits category for a photograph of a member of the Golden Dawn. CHIPP – China International Press Photo Contest 2012, Award in the Economy Science & Technology category for the story “The coal mines”. EXHIBITIONS Trapped World Press Photo Festival, Amsterdam, Holland April 2017 Trapped Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia, May 2017 Chaos/Youth Resistance Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia December 2016 Exodus, Photographic Nights, Contemporary Museum of Cologne, Germany October 2016 Exodus, House of Photography, Hamburg, Germany August- October 2016 The Journey to Humanity- Unlocked, DIG festival (Open Migration platform), San Marino Italy. July 2016 A concert for the refugees, Concert Hall Organization of Thessaloniki, Greece,June 2016. A video installation with title “Boarders Kill” was screened accompanied by Mahler’s Adagietto played by the city of Thessaloniki symphony orchestra. The earnings was given to the refugee camp of Diavata. “Unstable Fields”, Athens Photo Festival, Greece, June 2016 “Exodus”, Zingst Photo festival, Germany May 2016 Another Life: Human Flows/ Unknow Odysseys. Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2016 “Greece and the EU debt crisis”, The Browse Gallery, Berlin, October 2015. “Lives in the Streets”, Onassis Foundation, , April 2015, Athens, Greece. (Curator of eight Schedia vendors, all of whom are or have been homeless, were each given a camera. Their mission: to capture Athens life from their own unique perspective; to record what catches their eye and captures their imagination; to show us the city through their eyes without restraints or limitations.) “Nicosia, the Last Divided Capital of Europe”, Bursa Photo Festival, Turkey, December 2014. “The Death of the Greek Industry”, Moving Walls 21, Open Society Foundation, New York City and Washington D.C., January 2014. “Cyprus, Casualties of an Economic War”, The Browse Fotofestival, Berlin, 2013. “An Underground Political Culture”, The Browse Fotofestival, Berlin, 2012. “Greeks Take to the Streets”, projection, Visa Pour L’ Image Festival 2011, Perpignan, France. “Berlin, The Invisible Wall Line”, International Photo biennale 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece.

About Jasmin B.

Jasmin Brutus is a documentary photographer, cameraman and video editor who lives in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. He has worked as a photographer for a number of major local newspapers and magazines. His works appeared in Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Het Parool, Le Temps, Le Pelerin, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Wirtschaft Woche, Monocle. He is also interested in pursuing personal stories and other documentary projects. He has received several awards including Ex-changes, sponsored by the German government and SEE New Perspectives supported by World Press Photo and Robert Bosch Stiftung. Lately, Jasmin is interested in videography and documentary filmmaking.

About Konrad K.

About Karlo D.

Part of the professional video company, a mobile, Europe-wide travelling team. Multiyear experience in on-field video production and post-production, live video webcast ("streaming") and live TV broadcast. ☉☉☉ Capabilities/experiences: ■ videographer, cameramen ■ video editor ■ producer, producer-director ■ vision-mixer ■ live streaming operator (ICT specialist) ■ photographer ■ logistics: on-field organization, team coordination, administration, audio/video/broadcast equipment knowledge

About Carolin R.

I am an experienced journalist and documentary film maker with subjects from around the world. My recent productions were in Bangladesh, India, USA, Central Asia and Austria, just to name a few. My subjects are culture and life style, current affairs and news, leisure and trends, travel and news. I am also a videographer and news still photographer. I am fluent in German and English, pretty good in French and basic in Spanish.

About Moaz F.

About Sara E.

Producer/Project Manager

About ORBIS P.

ORBIS Production is a full-cycle creative film production company headquartered in Milan, Italy, and operating all across the EU. We guarantee the best results for your whole project, from coming up with an idea to making it come to life. With over 12 years of experience in high-performance production, we undertake all kinds of complex projects in the entire marketing communications field. We help our customers to strengthen their brand concept and create an impeccable competitive market reputation. Most importantly, we’re truly in love with what we do! Our key expertise lies in: • Creating high-end commercial, corporate, documentary, and brand videos; • Developing your brand and creative content; • Organizing commercial, corporate, and fashion photoshoots in Europe; • Performing aerial shooting from professional-grade drones flown by our ENAC pilots. Visit us: https://orbispro.it/en https://orbispro.si/en https://orbismagazine.com https://instagram.com/orbispro

About Massimo M.

My name is Massimo Mucchiut. Professional-wise I'm a freelance video-maker specialising in documentary filmmaking, both as CINEMATOGRAPHER and VIDEO EDITOR, and a PHOTOGRAPHER specialising in reportage photography. In the past years, I've been active in the field of human rights, collaborating with established NGOs, especially in the Middle East, and producing content in the form of DOCUMENTARY, VISIBILITY, and PROMO VIDEOS for fundraising campaigns. I've been working also in the field of advertising for several years with Google Partner Ad Agencies. I'm used to being a flexible and independent traveler and I have high social and humanistic skills. My whole office fits in a backpack, so to reach easily the most remote corners of the globe and produce independently a comprehensive range of different types of productions, and deliver assignments from anywhere with flexibility. I can produce tailored content with the highest standard for moving and still picture, sound and aerials. I'm fluent (speaking/writing) in English, Spanish, Slovene, and Italian (my mother tongue). I'm flexible, reliable, and easygoing. Among my clients/collaborations/publishers: Un Ponte Per, United World Colleges, Replay, Springfestival, Toyota, Current TV, Erasmus+, Internazionale. Shooting equipment: CAMERAS Panasonic GH5 (4K) Canon XF400 (4K) LENSES Olympus Zuiko 7-14mm 2.8 Panasonic Lumix DG Vario 12-60mm 2.8-4.0 Panasonic Lumix 25mm 1.7 Olympus Digital 70-300mm 4.0-5.6 MICS AND TRANSMITTERS Røde VideoMic NTG Røde VideoMic Pro Sennheiser lavalier mic + EW100 g2 SOUND RECORDER Tascam DR-05X GIMBAL Zhiyun Crane 2s ACTION CAM GoPro Hero DRONE DJI Mini 2

About Oliver S.

Years ago I grabbed the camera to capture the best moments of my life. I got know many people, travelled a lot and my pictures started to become good. If you like to hire me as a cinematographer or a photographer, feel free to send a message!

About Yahya Y.

Arabic Turkish-Turkish Arabic Professional Translator with 5 year experience. Professional News Translator. New Media Graduated. Freelance Photographer. Social media presenter.

About Eyyüp E.

Strong experience in video editing and post-production.

About Crystaline R.

I help change makers, companies, and entrepreneurs connect with others by telling their stories . I use storytelling, photography, video, podcasts, interviews, and writing to introduce your dreams, hopes, and mission to the world in beautiful and compelling ways.

About Abdulkadir M.

Journalist Senior Content Producer Managing the digital newsroom TV newsroom management