NICO PIRO | Italy | 4:39 | Documentary
Status: Official Selection
The biggest lie about modern conflicts is that they are fought on battlefields. People who can’t flee live in the middle of wars. This story is about them
Director Biography – NICO PIRO
Nico Piro is the most awarded Italian war correspondent, he is a staff member at Rai, the public Italian Radio Television. He is mostly focused on wars, epidemics and natural disaster. He self-produced his projects too, like “Killa Dizez” a documentary about Ebola epidemics in Sierra Leone (2015). He crowdfunded two of his recents books, both of them about Afghanistan.
He is the Italian pioneer of MOJO (Mobile Journalism) he runs classes to spread the use of smartphone for journalism and storytelling. He is the director of Mojo Italia, the first Italian mobile festival (Rome 2018, first edition) www.mojoitalia.it