Fondazione Harambee Africa International ETS
Via dei Farnesi, 91A Roma 00186 Italia
Phone: +39 06 68801791
Website: www.harambee-africa.org
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Diego Contreras
Spain
Paola della Torre
Italy
Agnes Aineah
Kenya
David Boanuh
Ghana
Journalist with a background in digital journalism. She has a Masters in Digital Communications from Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications and a Degree in Linguistics, Media and Communications from Moi University of Kenya. Agnes is currently a journalist for ACI Africa.
Extraordinary Professor of Information Analysis and Practice at
the Faculty of Institutional Social Communication of the Pontifical
University of the Holy Cross. He was previously a correspondent in Italy and in
Vatican for the "Europa Press" news agency. Graduated in Communication Sciences from the University of Navarra, where he also obtained his PhD.
Accra-based director and cinematographer, co-founder of Beautiful Stories Studios, a production company that aims to raise awareness of Africa and its history by bringing out an "African perspective" through photography and film.
He was the winner of the 9th edition of the Harambee Conveying Africa Award for both the Documentary and Videoclip categories.
Associate professor of Cinema, Photography, Television at LUMSA University of Rome. She graduated in 2001 in Communication Sciences from the LUMSA University of Rome. In 2007 she obtained her PhD in History of Cinema in its interrelationships with theater and other arts at the University of Roma Tre, with a thesis on postmodern American cinema. From 2007 to 2010 she is a contract researcher at the University of the Tuscia in Viterbo in the Chair of History and Criticism of Cinema. From 2009 to 2012 and from 2015 to 2018 she is Researcher at LUMSA in Rome in the Chair of Theories and Techniques of Cinematographic Language.
Erminio Perocco
Italy
Chiara Sambuchi
Italy
Slim & Joséphine Turki
Luxembourg
Gianfranco Belgrano
Italy
Documentary filmmaker, journalist. She graduated in Philosophy and majored in classical guitar, then studied Film Studies at Berkeley. She worked as a producer for the RAI correspondence office in Berlin. She has directed documentaries and reports for various European broadcasters such as ARD, ARTE, ZDF, YLE, RAI and History channel. Her feature-length documentaries "Wrong planet," "Good morning Africa!", "City of women, today," and "Spirits I've called" have been and are still being shown in major film festivals around the world. She has directed documentaries in post-conflict regions of Uganda, rural areas of Rwanda, refugee camps on the European borders during the humanitarian refugee emergency in 2014 and 2015. Her documentaries have won several awards.
An advertiser and director, he joined the Armando Testa agency in 1989 and, in '94 became its central creative director. He has written and produced more than one hundred advertisements, working on the strategic positioning, launch and repositioning of numerous brands such as Mulino Bianco, Martini, Mondadori, TIM.
As an author and director he has made several documentaries. Since January 2013 he has been creative director of HI! Communication - Rome.
A professional journalist, he covers mainly foreign affairs with a predilection for Africa and the Middle East. He is editorial director of the monthly Africa and Business, InfoAfrica news agency and all other Internationalia media. He has worked with various newspapers and came to Africa with the Misna news agency, which he left in 2013 to co-found the Internationalia publishing group.
Slim is a senior researcher with a deep commitment to using data for positive impact. His experience is enriched by numerous trips to Africa in the company of his wife Josephine, during which they developed a deep knowledge and passion for the places and cultures of the continent.
Massimo Zaurrini
Italy
He is the director in charge of InfoAfrica (an information and advisory service dedicated to economic and political developments in Africa), and Africa and Business (a monthly magazine dedicated to African economics and politics). From 2002 to 2011 he had mainly covered Africa for the international news agency Misna (Missionary International Service News Agency). Since 2015 he has been a member of the Orientation Committee of the Center for Relations with Africa (Cra) of the Italian Geographic Society (Sgi).