JEREMY SCAHILL

Jeremy Scahill
(president)

Investigative reporter and war correspondent, Jeremy is one of the founders of the online publication ‘The Intercept’ and the author of the bestselling books ‘Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield’ and ‘Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army’. His work has sparked several congressional investigations, and he was twice awarded the George Polk Award. He is also a producer and writer of the 2014 Academy Award-nominated documentary ‘Dirty Wars’.

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Juliana
Ruhfus

Senior Reporter for Al Jazeera English's People & Power, Juliana has made nearly 50 films in over 30 countries covering human rights and war crimes. She has also turned two films, ‘Pirate Fishing’ and ‘Syria's Electronic Armies’, into gamified projects and is working on an interactive storytelling app with funding received from the Google DNI. Prior to Al Jazeera she worked for the UN Security Council, various NGOs and some of the world’s leading broadcasters. More at: www.julianaruhfus.com

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Andrea
Scrosati

46 years old, Executive Vice President Programming at Sky Italia. He is responsible for all the non-sport programming of the pay-TV unit, including the Cinema offer, channels Sky Uno, Sky TG24, Sky Arte and Sky Atlantic, relations with the third-party channels on the platform, pay-per-view services, Sky’s factual and serial original productions, FTA channels Cielo and TV8. He is a member of the Auditel Spa Board, an independent member of Mediawan Board and Chairman of Vision Distribution Board of Directors.

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Galia
Bador

Galia is the Director of Docaviv – The Tel Aviv Docaviv International Film Festival, since 2009. Previously she served as the CEO of The Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum. She had produced award winning documentaries, among them ‘Jerusalem is Proud to Present’ (dir. Nitzan Giladi), winner of the Human Rights Award at IDFA 2007. She has been a lecturer on film production and participated as a tutor and juror at International documentary forums and festivals.

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Marco
Nassivera

Since January 2013, Marco is Head of News for the French-German broadcaster Arte. Before that he was head of Arte Reportage, defining future editorial guidelines for the broadcaster’s television and web section.

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Claudine
Blais

A journalist for 30 years, Claudine became producer for many current affairs and investigative programmes in Canada. For many years, she has been executive producer for the TV programme Enquête, at the public broadcaster Société Radio-Canada. During this time, Enquête received 7 Gémeaux awards. She also won 4 awards for investigative stories broadcasted in Canada. She’s currently implementing international partnerships and investigative collaboration projects.

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Riccardo
Chiattelli

Born in 1976, as a television manager Riccardo has spent over 15 years to promote internationally acclaimed documentaries, fiction movies and TV series into the Italian market. After having worked for several premium channels (Cult Network, Fox Channels Italy, Sky Italia) he contributed to launch the free channel Cielo and its original productions. For the last four years he has been Chief Executive of the Feltrinelli Group channel laeffe.

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Alberto
Nerazzini

Journalist and documentarist, Alberto wrote for several Italian newspapers and magazines and worked for a long time at Rai, producing both TV and radio shows. A former correspondent for Sciuscià, Raggio Verde, Anno Zero and Report, he is now a freelance journalist.

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Pia
Thordsen

Danish journalist, Pia has been working with TV for 25 years. Her daily work is at TVSYD, a regional TV Station broadcasting at TV2 Denmark, where she primarily deals with TV news. From 1996 to 2010, she has been a board member of the Danish Association for Investigative Journalism. In 2005, she co-founded the pan-Arab organization ARIJ (Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism), where she has been serving as a board member and a trainer.

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Nils
Hanson

Swedish-born, Nils is one of the most celebrated Scandinavian journalists. He started his career in daily newspapers in 1968, at age of 16, and became an investigative reporter at Göteborgs-Posten in 1986. He then moved to TV4 and finally to the Swedish public broadcaster SVT. Here, since 2004 he has been the editor-in-chief of the award-winning programme Uppdrag granskning (Mission Investigate).

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Alexandre
Brachet

Alexandre is the founder and CEO of Upian, an interactive and creative studio that provides online content for agencies and media companies. He is one of the world’s major players in the production of web documentaries and hybrid multimedia contents, somewhere between documentary cinema and digital storytelling.

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Morten Møller
Warmedal

Norwegian journalist, Morten has extensive experience from a number of editorial, executive and management positions in broadcasting and print media. Employed in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) since 2003, he is now executive editor of the Documentary department. For the academic year 2017/8, he has been selected as a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University in California. Both as a reporter and producer, he has received several international awards such as Prix Italia 2014 and Prix Europa 2015.