About Michele M.

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

About Gianluca L.

I work as an independent film maker, focused on creative documentaries, but able to switch genre. Since 2006 I work as director, cameraman and editor, and I continue to teach audio-visual education in institutional and non-institutional contexts. My expierience brought me to work in Italy, France, Spain, United Kingdom and Argentina.

About Andrea F.

My background includes in-depth studies and several years of works in the field of music as well as video production for theatrical projects and documentary films about arts and social issues. I studied ten years at the Conservatory of Music of my city in Italy, and then obtained a BA in Communication, an MA in Film Studies, an MFA in Scriptwriting and a PhD in Communication in Milan. As a result of my will to serve as a humanitarian videographer, in the past few years I have become official videographer for NGOs like Compassion International, Global Mamas and International Women's Initiative, and started to work as a videographer for humanitarian projects. I am a very self-motivated person; I believe in team working and with my range of educational, artistic, and practical experiences, and as a videographer and editor with an unusual range of studies, international and eclectic experiences, I would be a useful asset to your audio-visual storytelling.

About Livio L.

About Pablo A.

I'm Pablo, a creative director and filmmaker with over 20 years of experience in advertising, animation, film and documentary. I was born in Buenos Aires, I'm living in Italy and I'm working worldwide. I help brands and filmmakers to give their vision a concrete, engaging look, and create contents that truly stand out from the crowd. Memorable and durable content. I equally enjoy being near Antarctica filming gentoo penguins, or being behind a screen concepting an immersive experience.

About Francesco C.

I'm an italian videographer and editor set in Florence. I started working as assistant producer for documentaries productions in Italy than moved to commercials, live events and web contents. I realise spots and commercials for restaurants, hotel, artists, design studios and live music events.

About Matteo C.

My name is Matteo Castelli, I am an italian Director of photography and Camera Operator based in Florence. I have an extensive experience in feature films, commercials, documentaries, corporate videos and many other aspects of media production. I can tell a story with my images, framing the world in my lens, playing with the rhythm of the time and cause emotions with shapes, lights and shadows.

About Dorin V.

About Niccolò B.

Freelance based in Florence, Italy, I work in Production Departments for TV, commercials and Cinema since 2015. I worked for companies like Vice, ZeroPointZero, FCB Chicago, RAI and WaWa Pictures. I've rised all my experience working for foreing companies all around Italy, covering Florence, Tuscany, Rome, Genoa, Verona, Milan and other cities. My experience covers Food Shows, Commercials (including automotive), Feature Films, News and Reality Shows. Because of my legal background I have confidence with the italian Law concerning the copyright. Excellent skills in writing and handling contracts for TV Industry.

About Gia A.

about my company Founded in Chicago in 2006, Modio Media Productions, Inc. is an award-winning video and television production company specializing in non-fiction content. Managing partners Gia Marie Amella, writer, producer, director, and Beppe Mangione, sound recordist, cameraman and editor, have over three decades of combined experience in the U.S. and Europe. Their work has aired on PBS, CNN International, CNBC, National Geographic International, HISTORY Channel, A&E Networks, The Weather Channel, Discovery, among others. Gia and Beppe use their exceptional storytelling skills to create branded content across business sectors in English and Italian--from hospitality, food, wine and fashion, to manufacturing, technology and design. Modio Media filmed, field produced and directed multiple segments for HISTORY'S Project Impossible (2017), a one-hour series showecasing extraordinary feats of engineering across the globe, from Venice’s controversial flood barrier system, MOSE, to the largest off-shore wind farm ever built in the North Sea. That same year, Gia served as writer and consulting producer on the highly anticipated documentary feature, The Arab Americans (2017), garnering nearly one million viewers on PBS stations nationwide. Modio Media's original productions include 30.000 Miles to the Finish (2020) about the only Italian to compete in the Golden Globe Race 2018, one of the most extreme regattas in modern sailing history; Terror in Tuscany: World War II Atrocities (2011) for CNN International’s long-running doc stand, World’s Untold Stories, an expose of civilian massacres in Italy and survivors' quest for justice, winner of the 2012 Peter Lisagor Award for Outstanding Feature Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists Chicago chapter; and the Midwest Emmy-nominated And They Came To Chicago: The Italian American Legacy (2006) narrated by Tony Award-winning actor Joe Mantegna, which aired as a primetime special on PBS affiliate station WTTW-Chicago. more about gia Gia got her first taste of television through two consecutive internships in news and programming at KGO-TV in San Francisco. After graduate school, she held various administrative and production roles with increasing responsibility, in time becoming a full-fledged writer, producer, director on factual shows. The year prior to launching her company, Gia served a stint as interim supervising producer on the HGTV series New Spaces, thus sparking a keen interest in home rehab and design. A 1998-99 Fulbright Fellow to Palermo, Italy, Gia holds an M.A. in Radio-Television (1993) from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in Italian Literature (1988) from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Gia's been recognized by the National Immigration Council, the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, Women's Division, and the State of Illinois for contributions to her field. She's also the recipient of grants from the National Italian American Foundation, the Illinois and the California State Humanities Councils, and numerous private foundations. Over the years, Gia has brought her professional experience into the classroom. Between 1994-97, Gia taught an intensive summer course on the history of the documentary form at her alma mater, San Francisco State University. She served as an instructor and mentor in the Bay Area Video Coalition's Above the Line Program, a free hands-on training course giving women and people of color better access to media career opportunities. She continues to lecture widely on at schools, universities, cultural associations and conferences on her company's work.

About Mohamed E.

I'm a passionate human, love meditation, filmmaking, philosophy, writing, music, arts, animals, human and nature. I was lucky to live grow up in a different cultures and countries, and passed through through a great big events and experience in my life.. led me to discover more about myself and the world around me, and in my journey of discovering myself and finding my meaning, I'm always passionate and hungry for more to learn, teach and exchange. My favourite quote is "Life is Karma".. and Karma is my lovely daughter as well. Aim to be a great Filmmaker, and wining Oscar appositely is on top of my Wishlist!

About Davide M.

I started to work in italian cinema industry in 1998. For several years i made movie and tv series like assistant director and first assistant director. In 2008 i founded my own company that makes documentaries, "making of" for Movies and tv series, reportages, commercials, videoclip and short movies. In 2015 I founded the Red Rock Goat Company www.redrockgoat.com that produce international documentaries. I love to tell and hear stories.

About Michele B.

As a highly-motivated journalist and videomaker, I have been reporting on international news, development, human rights and environment in Latin America and Italy since 2012. My bylines include digital outlets and news agencies such as: AlJazeera.com, El País, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Vice, Narratively and Ruptly. As far as Italy is regarded, my work has been featured on prominent media such as Repubblica TV, L'Espresso, Internazionale and Linkiesta. These experiences have enabled me to take care of the whole video production process, so I am used to script, shoot and edit my packages and documentaries independently. Since 2014 I have been focusing on online videos and interactive journalistic formats, and for this work I was awarded an Innovation in Development reporting grant and a King of Spain Honorable mention. In addition to Italian, I have professional proficiency in Spanish and English. I am currently based in Rome, where I hold a position as video producer at the Italian Parliament. However, I like to consider myself always open to new exciting and innovative projects, should they arise. I believe that good journalism has to be found on the streets, talking face to face with people and looking for the other side of a story. This is what I believe I can produce for Storyhunter.

About Luca V.

Wildlife filmmaker with more than six years of experience within the documentary industry. I have produced and directed natural history and actuality sequences in diverse filming locations, such as Namibia, Borneo Indonesia and the Appennines in Italy for different international companies (BBC News, National Geographic, Off the Fence, Rai, WWF). Creative interpretation of nature and confident in delivering behavioral sequences. I collaborated with NGOs and researchers documenting poaching in the Mediterannean and Borneo. Strong human and communication skills. Fluent English, Spanish and Italian speaking. Friendly team member with a positive attitude both on location and in the office. Short and long form projects.

About David C.

I am an Italian independent filmmaker based in Italy. I come from an academic/journalistic background: I researched in History, Politics and Social Studies during my university years in Rome and London and reported from the Middle East and Africa. The first time I approached filmmaking was just a couple of years ago and it was a revelation. I understood that what I was really looking for were peoples personal stories mirroring the macro events I researched and witnessed during my academic years and working experience. Since then, I built a team of professionals with the same targets and interests and with whom I am currently collaborating. At the moment, I am working on a documentary about the global market of khat, a natural amphetamine cultivated in the Horn of Africa. But with the recent dramatic political changes in the Mediterranean area, I am looking forward to focus on my country, engaging with little-known and underreported stories of migration, environment and human rights.

About Valerio N.

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.

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 Marco S.

I am an Award-winning filmmaker and photographer with 10 years of experience working in 20 countries including conflict zones and hostile environments. I have worked as Self Shooting Producer/Director, Director of Photography, and Video-journalist for BBC, ITN, Channel4, Al Jazeera, Vice News, and National Geographic. I am trained and certified in Hostile environment and First Aid by First Option and in Production Safety in the New Normal:COVID-19 Awareness by Secret Compass. Based in Italy is available for assignment worldwide. Selected works: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwTqVdYgS63UcujQBDvk9yxCRGiXnOhc1 My work, among other honors, won the 2016 Rory Peck Award for News Feature and was shortlisted for 2017 Grierson Award-Best Single Documentary, International.

About Silvia L.

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.

About Roberto V.

With around 8 years of international experience, I am an award winner videographer, script writer, documentary photographer, journalist and all-round multimedia producer. First as a freelance and later as a Lead Video Producer in a production company, I have been working for various clients, including BBC, Al Jazeera English and several UN agencies (UNHCR, WFP, IOM). I am fluent in English, French and need a few days to brush up my Spanish. I am an Italian native speakers. Assignments have taken me in more than 15 African countries, all over Europe and in Central America.