Valerio Nicolosi

Valerio was born in Rome in 1984 and he still lives there. Filmmaker and photojournalist, in 2008 he graduated with highest honors from the 'Experimental Television Center' in Rome. He made a few reportages from the Syrian-Lebanon border about the refugee crisis and the humanitarian corridors. 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. Most of the reportages were about the human condition in the suburbs of America. As an investigative journalist he made many reportages on the issue of immigrants and in particular in the "Jungle of Calais” for Italian and European tv networks. He also covered the terrorist attacks both in Paris and Brussels. Making the documentary DEATH BEFORE LAMPEDUSA 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 has made numerous music videos with Italian and Palestinian singer/songwriters and has published three books of short stories and photography, Bar(n)Out, Be Filmmaker in Gaza, (R)Esistenze. He spent more than 20 days on board the “Proactiva Open Arms" boat, a Spanish NGO whose main mission is to rescue refugees from the sea that arrive in Europe fleeing wars, persecution or poverty. In those 3 weeks they rescued 86 refugees. He also works as an occasional lecturer with the 'Audio-visual Journalism Tribune' at La Sapienza University and the Palestinian Al-Aqsa and Deir El-Balah, both located in the Gaza Strip.