Benedetta Argentieri
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Benedetta Argentieri is an Italian journalist and film director. She undertook several journeys to the Middle East from where she reported on the Syrian Civil War and the War in Iraq.[1]
Education and early life[edit]
She studied art at the Sotheby's Institute of Art, from which she graduated with a BSc. She then didn't finish her master's degree, and chose to become a journalist in Italy. She began at Mediaset[2] and in 2003 she became a journalist or the Italian Corriere della Sera, and following wrote for a variety of news agencies like Reuters,[3] The Sydney Morning Herald,[4] Lebanons The Daily Star[5] or The Sunday Times.[6] In 2013 she was granted a scholarship to study journalism at the University of Columbia, from which she graduated with a master's degree in 2014.[3][7]
Professional career[edit]
In 2013 she co-produced and directed her first documentary, Capulcu-Voices from Gezi about the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey.[8][9] Following in 2014 she interviewed a sixteen-year-old young woman from Sinjar during a manifestation in front of the United Nations in New York, she decided to travel to the war zone.[3] This lead to her directing the movie Our War, a documentary about three volunteers joining Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in their fight against the Islamic State (ISIS).[10] In 2018, she directed I am the Revolution, a documentary about three revolutionary women in the middle east, namely Rojda Felat (A Kurdish women in Syria), Yanar Mohammed (an Iraqi feminist) and Selay Ghaffar (an Afghan women's right activist).[11][12] Between 2019 and 2020 she stayed for about nine months in the territory governed by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) to report on the political situation on the ground.[13] Between late 2019 and before the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic in Syria in 2020, she directed the documentary Blooming in the Desert which focuses on the women's political movement and gender equality in Raqqa following its capture from ISIS.[14]
Movies[edit]
- 2013, Capulcu-Voices from Gezi [15][16]
- 2014, Our War[10]
- 2018, I am the Revolution[11]
- 2020 Blooming in the desert[17]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Benedetta Argentieri". Overseas Press Club of America. 25 October 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "About – Benedetta Argentieri" (in italiano). Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Filippi Gabardi, Vittoria (28 January 2019). "Benedetta Argentieri: chiamata alle armi". Vogue Italia (in italiano). Retrieved 2020-12-26. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Argentieri, Benedetta (2017-08-30). "No time for love, children, 'desires': meet the female Kurdish freedom fighters". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- ↑ "Benedetta Argentieri | Author's Page | THE DAILY STAR". www.dailystar.com.lb. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- ↑ Argentieri, Joey L. and Benedetta (27 November 2016). "The day the sun never rose". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
- ↑ "TEDxMilano | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
- ↑ "Çapulcu: voices from Gezi". www.festivaldelleterre.it. Retrieved 21 March 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Redazione. ""Çapulcu: Voices from Gezi": un film italiano vince l'Amnesty International Award | RB Casting". www.rbcasting.com (in italiano). Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Our War". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "I am The Revolution" (in italiano). Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- ↑ McBain, Sophie (2018-11-19). "Feminism in the wake of Isis". New Statesman. Retrieved 2021-10-31. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ User, Super. "INTERVISTA A BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI". www.cisda.it (in italiano). Retrieved 2021-03-21.
- ↑ Zampa, Alice (2021-07-30). "Blooming in the Desert documentary portrays the women rewriting history in Raqqa". LifeGate. Retrieved 2021-10-31. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Benedetta Argentieri". www.wmm.com. Women Make Movies. Retrieved 2020-12-26. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Redazione. ""Çapulcu: Voices from Gezi": un film italiano vince l'Amnesty International Award | RB Casting". www.rbcasting.com (in italiano). Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- ↑ "Blooming in the Desert". OpenDDB. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
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