ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The scream of a "Sains Papier" woman in Brussels protesting against European refugee policies

AUTHOR
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.
He has made several social reportages using both video and photos.
He has made 3 short fiction films set in the suburbs of Rome where he was born and grew up: "Bar (n) Out duepuntoniente", "Bia" and "Esubero"
He has published 3 books of photographs and stories: "Bar(n)Out", which has as its protagonist the suburbs of Rome, "Befilmaker a Gaza" on its experience in the Gaza Strip and "(R)Esistenze" that contains all its photo reportage made in 9 different countries.

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, "Be Filmmaker in Gaza" published by "Ass. Nat. Filmmaker " and (R)Esistenze by Crowdbooks.
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 works for the Associated Press for which he participated in the 47b mission of the NGO Open Arms, with a recovery of 87 people from Sudan at sea.

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