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 Paolo P.

I am a freelance documentary photographer-filmmaker. I'm interested in documenting global topics, including health care, education, human rights, sustainable development, climate changes. Since 2011 I'm working on my personal long term project about the maternal health in Africa and developed/industrialized countries. The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, AMREF, SAVE THE CHILDREN, among my Clients.

About Michele M.

Stringer based in Italy. Video reporter with more than 15 years of Experiences in Breaking News, Press Junkets & Documentary.

About Fabian W.

FABIAN WEISS is a photographer, visual storyteller and member of the journalistic NGO FROH! and the photo agency LAIF. He lives in Austria, Estonia and Germany and mostly works in the Baltics, Eastern Europe and further East. His personal projects explore cultural changes in personal structures; the cinematic images he creates are acutely observed portraits within a broader assessment of the surrounding culture and have been awarded and exhibited internationally. Besides his photographic work, he teaches and conducts workshops on visual storytelling and making magazines. www.fabianweiss.com

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 Dario B.

About Ion G.

Ion Gnatiuc is a documentary film producer, director, and cinematographer based in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Here he established here after graduating Documentary Filmmaking, an English master degree at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His short film debut - IN THE FRAME, a story about a transgender woman from Chisinau - had the premiere at the goEast Film Festival and traveled at other 15 international film festivals, including Cannes Short Film Corner, Ji.hlava IDFF, Transilvania International Film Festival, Beldocs, Artdocfest, and others. An ESoDoc and Balkan Documentary Center alumni, Now Ion is producing

About Nataliya N.

Filmmaker

About Iason A.

Iason Athanasiadis is a photojournalist, documentary film-maker and writer working on the intersection of the Eastern Mediterranean with the Arab, Persian and Turkic Middle East and Central Asia. A fluent Arabic, Persian and Turkish speaker, he has covered some of the contemporary region’s signature crises and lived in Cairo, Damascus, Libya's Tripoli, Sanaa and Tehran. He is currently based between Athens, Istanbul and Tunis. Iason has worked on several news and documentary films, as well as on-spec shooting assignments. In 2017 he received the Anna Lindh Foundation's 10th Anniversary Mediterranean Journalism Award's alumni prize for a series of articles he had written about formerly cosmopolitan ports of the Mediterranean and their psychogeography. Between 2011 and 2018 he worked for the United Nations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan and Libya. For more information, check out https://culturistan.org/resident/iasonathanasiadis/

About Jan H.

Jan is a skilled field producer and most importantly a team player whether working with film crews, individuals acting within a project scope or client's unit such as producers or media coordinators. Always ready to fulfil all important requests and overcome great challenges in planning or in the field. With a strong focus to establish and execute visions and wishes in creating most-appealing trans-media content. Experienced in small to medium-sized projects and budgets. Background in project management. Teams are available in Vienna(Austria) and also in Nairobi (Kenya), both with experienced visual storytellers and media productions. Experienced in journalism, multimedia, documentary, corporate, featured, web, and mini-series for clients across the globe. Specialty in short and mini storytelling films. Commissioned by History channel, Insider, Zinc Network, CGTN Beijing, Global Citizen, CNN, and Al Jazeera. Among many others.

About Matt F.

I have been an avid experimenter of new forms of visual storytelling for my entire career. My passion is finding new ways to tell stories about the most complex global challenges facing our world today. I’ve worked on films in Hollywood, covered elections and conflicts as a multimedia journalist for the Associated Press, and served as the CEO of a business that produced global stories for social impact. I have always pursued projects that educate, inspire and build bridges across communities and cultures. Stories that call attention to our shared humanity bring us closer together.

About Elena S.

Elena Stancu is an independent journalist, based in Bucharest, contributor at the Romanian editions of Marie Claire, National Geographic, Esquire and other local magazines. She started working as a journalist 10 years ago and her worked focused on domestic violence, human trafficking, Romanian prisons and integration of minorities. She was a 2013/2014 Fellow at the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism and a 2013 Fellow at the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence. In December 2013, she resigned as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Marie Claire Romania and moved in a camper in order to work on long-form journalism projects. Her work is published on http://en.teleleu.eu/.

About Sergiy G.

Sergiy from Kyiv, Ukraine. Cinematographer/DP. Through my career I’ve been involved in production of major reality shows for top domestic TV channels in Ukraine. As an executive production manager I was delivering my best organizational skills not only in Ukraine, but also abroad including France, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Thailand and Italy. Desire and keen interest in the technical aspects of shooting combined with passion to create, allowed me to move on as independent cinematographer on a freelance basis with focus on commercials and digital media. I am a certified RED camera user and have a lot of experience working with Canon DSLR's & C-series.

About Juan P.

I've worked as video story-teller for the last 10 years. While working on my own as a freelancer for agencies, production houses, and clients in different industries. I gained experience in different levels of the production starting as an Assistant of Director, storyboard-artist, Editor, Sound Recordist, Producer, Camera man and ultimately, as a Director.

About Mihai L.

I am a producer/director from Cluj Napoca Romania. I directed several award winning feature and short documentary films, among which Valley of Sighs (a film about Roma Holocaust in Romania). Triba fillm (2008) the company I manage is specialized in freelance journalism, NGO promotion, visual communication and fundraising videos, advertising and creative independent, documentary production. I also have experience as a news cameraman but also in working for various productions playing different roles: producer, DOP, director etc. My team is formed by film experience and enthusiastic film professionals speaking various languages (Romanian, English, Russian , French, German etc). We also have the latest filming and editing equipment and we provide full production services. Looking forward to collaborate in your exciting projects.

About Davide P.

I'm Davide Preti, filmmaker and freelance photographer. After graduating in Cinema TV and New Media, in 2009, I started collaborating with Corriere della Sera where I made several reportages for the newspaper's online channel, corriere.it; in particular with the sports and foreign newsroom.

About Murat U.

I worked as a TV correspondent for many years, for the Turkish spoken TV channels, for Turkish spoken branches of international TV stations like CNN Turk and Aljazeera Turk. I worked internationally for the Turkish Public TV TRT, as Jerusalem correspondent. I worked in Middle East, South Asia, Caucasus and Balkans. I made TV stories about conflicts in these regions such as American invasion in Iraq in 2003, Israeli- Lebanese war in 2006, Kurdish issue in Turkey, Israel - Palestine conflict, Pakistan Army's Swat Valley operations. I also made a mid-length (47 min.) documentary, named "Resister", about Tobacco Workers in Turkey's capital Ankara which lasted 78 days. This film deemed worthy of being "Best documentary" in 2010 by the Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD). Murat UTKU was born in 1972. Studied in Naval High School and Naval Academy. He left Naval Academy and graduated from İstanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences/Economy and politics. Worked as a TV Journalist, at national and international TV Stations such as CNN Turk, Haberturk, TRT Turk. He worked for TRT Turk as the representative to Jerusalem for a short term. Travelled to the south east of Turkey very often to work on Kurdish issue. Has been been to Middle East so many times times, had an exprience on “crisis” and “conflict resolution”. Heʼs been to crisis areas like, Iraq (during the American invasion), Kosovo, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Palestine as TV correspondent, and Armenia many times to report about the conflict between two countries Turkey and Armenia. He reported Russia – Georgia war in 2008, which he followed and reported the war in South Osetia, Tbilisi and invaded Georgian city, Gori as a TV correspondent. He worked as TRT Türkʼs representative to Jerusalem in 2009. He produced and directed TV program called ʻHey Taksiʼ for TRT Türk. In 2010, he received Progressive Journalists Associationʼs Mahmut Tali Öngören TV Award with a TV story screened at CNN Türk, called ʻTwo Languages in a Suitcaseʼ. ‘Resister’, the documentary he made, deemed worthy of the ‘Best documentary’ of the year. He worked as Senior Correspondent for Aljazeera Turk, left his position in 2015. He has been working as a field producer for Aljazeera English since then. He spent more than two years in the South East of Turkey on the border with Syria, watched closely what’s been happening about the war within Syria, made news pieces on refugee issues either in te refugee camps administrated by Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Agency AFAD or worked on stories about the refugees who have currently been living in the cities like Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Kilis as well as Istanbul. As a jurnalist and as a film maker he also worked with several NGOs including Turkish, Syrian and international aid groups and agencies, made TV and written stories about refugee children’s education as well. Murat Utku also worked as one of the field producers in Turkey for the documentary called Human Flow, filmed by Chinese artist and film director Ai Weiwei, about Syrian refugees screened at Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale on 2017.

About Tomislav B.

About Giuseppe R.

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.

About Marwin R.

About my experience, I am used to work with DSLR Cameras, filming for Movie Festivals and Gastronomy Company (Documentary), but mostly of my job is being photographer, and in the last three years I've been working onboard (in Cruise Lines - Costa Crociere and Royal Caribbean), as portrait photographer (studio). I have graduated as Journalist, but i´ve been working just with photo/video in the last 5 years of my life. * I must to update my websites, cause i have not had time in the previous 3 years, because in that time I´ve been onboard travelling the world and working as well, and many times offline. By the way, I am Brazilian, living in NYC has been 7 months.