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I am an Award-winning filmmaker and photographer with 10 years of experience working in 20 countries including conflict zones and hostile environments. I am native Italian and fluent in English, French and Spanish. I have worked as Self Shooting Producer/Director, Director of Photography, and Video-journalist for BBC, ITN, Channel 4, Al Jazeera, Vice News, and National Geographic. I am HEFAT trained and certified by First Option. Based in Italy I am available for assignment worldwide. Showreel and selected works: https://www.marcosalustro.com 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.
Produced for Vice News
Director/Producer/Camera- Venezuela’s December election was an historic moment.After exactly 17 years of dominating the country’s institutions and politics, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) was defeated at the polls. VICE News traveled to Venezuela to see how the Chavistas prepared for the election, and followed PSUV candidate Zulay Aguirre during her campaign.
Produced for ITN
They have left everything they knew and they have risked everything they have: now thousands of migrants trying to make it to Europe are getting caught up in the terrifying grip of people smuggling and extortion. This programme has obtained dramatic footage, captured by filmmaker Marco Salustro, showing the gangs who intercept migrant vessels at sea - demanding a ransom, or else.
Produced for ITN
It was a crisis that upended a continent. In 2015, more than a million refugees and migrants made their way to Europe fleeing war, persecution and economic hardship. Then in 2016, the EU implemented a deal to stem the numbers of people coming in. Despite toughened controls, many people are still finding some way of reaching Europe in the hope of a better life.
Produced for ITN
The resurgence of movements inspired by Fascism have been very much part of Italy’s chaotic electoral campaign. The combination of a struggling economy and the mass influx of migrants and refugees in recent years have created fertile ground for ultra-nationalistic rhetoric.
Produced for ITN
Venezuela is braced for more protests as the country’s opposition leader and self-proclaimed president, Juan Guaido, called for demonstrators to intensify pressure on sitting President Nicolas Maduro to step down. The barrios, or poor neighbourhoods, usually loyal to Maduro are beginning to turn against him. We’ve been speaking to the family of a young protester killed during protests.
Produced for ITN
The 2015 migrant crisis changed the political landscape of Europe, but it’s not over: there are still people stuck in Greece, fleeing war and persecution, or just hoping for a better life. Here is our exclusive report from inside the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea.
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