Annalisa Piras is a London-based Italian-British film director, impact
producer and journalist. She is currently the director of Springshot
Productions, an independent production company which specialises in
hard hitting, current affairs documentaries. She also directs The Wake
Up Foundation, an educational charity she co-founded with Bill Emmott,
former editor of The Economist. In 2019 The Wake Up Foundation founded
and run the first Wake Up Europe Impact Films Festival, the first ever
transnational impact documentary festival entirely devoted to showcase
the best films produced worldwide to highlights the shared challenges
our western societies face, with a special focus on the meaning of a
European civic conscience. The Wake Up Europe Festival offered a
"selection for reflection" of 10 films, which were screened and
debated in Turin, Italy and across other nine European
locations.Piras'2016 film, "Europe at Sea", a feature-length
documentary co-produced by Arte and SVT was nominated for the 2016
Prix Europa, the Oscar of European Documentaries. It was broadcast
across the world in 2017. The film looks at Europe's role on the
global stage in light of today's transnational security challenges and
the shifting sands of geopolitics. It gained exclusive access for the
first time to the EU top diplomat, the High Representative for Foreign
and Security Policies Federica Mogherini.In 2015 Annalisa Piras
directed “The Great European Disaster Movie†, the first ever film
on the EU crisis from an international point of view. It was produced
by BBC and Arte among others.“The Great European Disaster Movieâ€
won the 2016 prestigious German CIVIS media prize in the information
category. The film was selected among 930 applications from media
programmes from all over Europe. The prize was bestowed by the German
Federal President Joachim Gauck and the President of the European
Parliament Martin Schulz at a star studded event in the German Federal
Foreign Office in Berlin in May 2016.The film shot in 2014 predicted
Brexit, the hardening of the migrant crisis, and the unravelling of
the idealism behind the European integration project. Since then, it
has become somehow a cult movie among audiences aware of the potential
consequences of the slow disintegration of the collaboration spirit of
the EU.
producer and journalist. She is currently the director of Springshot
Productions, an independent production company which specialises in
hard hitting, current affairs documentaries. She also directs The Wake
Up Foundation, an educational charity she co-founded with Bill Emmott,
former editor of The Economist. In 2019 The Wake Up Foundation founded
and run the first Wake Up Europe Impact Films Festival, the first ever
transnational impact documentary festival entirely devoted to showcase
the best films produced worldwide to highlights the shared challenges
our western societies face, with a special focus on the meaning of a
European civic conscience. The Wake Up Europe Festival offered a
"selection for reflection" of 10 films, which were screened and
debated in Turin, Italy and across other nine European
locations.Piras'2016 film, "Europe at Sea", a feature-length
documentary co-produced by Arte and SVT was nominated for the 2016
Prix Europa, the Oscar of European Documentaries. It was broadcast
across the world in 2017. The film looks at Europe's role on the
global stage in light of today's transnational security challenges and
the shifting sands of geopolitics. It gained exclusive access for the
first time to the EU top diplomat, the High Representative for Foreign
and Security Policies Federica Mogherini.In 2015 Annalisa Piras
directed “The Great European Disaster Movie†, the first ever film
on the EU crisis from an international point of view. It was produced
by BBC and Arte among others.“The Great European Disaster Movieâ€
won the 2016 prestigious German CIVIS media prize in the information
category. The film was selected among 930 applications from media
programmes from all over Europe. The prize was bestowed by the German
Federal President Joachim Gauck and the President of the European
Parliament Martin Schulz at a star studded event in the German Federal
Foreign Office in Berlin in May 2016.The film shot in 2014 predicted
Brexit, the hardening of the migrant crisis, and the unravelling of
the idealism behind the European integration project. Since then, it
has become somehow a cult movie among audiences aware of the potential
consequences of the slow disintegration of the collaboration spirit of
the EU.
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