Andrea Cairola
Andrea Cairola is a journalist and an expert in international cooperation in the field of media development and promotion of freedom of expression. As a journalist he has worked with Italian public television channel RAI 3 on the investigative journalism programme "Report" (2001-2002) and also cooperated with Italian national newspaper "La Stampa" and other newsmagazines on the topic of foreign affairs. For five years Andrea was a staff at UNESCO, the UN agency with the mandate to promote the free flow of information and freedom of expression. He has also cooperated in the development of independent, pluralist and professional media in Afghanistan (where he lived for over a year in 2004/2005), Nepal and Kazakhstan (where he lived for six months), the Central African Republic, the Caucasus and the Balkans. Andrea has managed projects on the creation of community media, the cooperation between television in the Balkans and the creation of a network monitoring attack to the press in Somalia. He works in media legislation and the right to access to information held by public bodies; on this topic he has edited a series of specialized publications. Back in Italy since January 2009, Andrea continues to work as a consultant on various international projects working with UN and specialized NGOs. He is also the initiator of a Center for Investigative Journalism in Italy.
Susan Gray
Susan Gray is an award-winning producer/director/writer with extensive experience producing for public television and cable in the United States and abroad, working on projects that have aired on PBS, National Geographic Channel, Animal Planet, Channel 4 England, Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Arte, NHK and more. Selected credits include Killer Poet (2008), story of Norman Porter, double murderer who eluded police for two decades and got caught just after being named ”Chicago’s poet of the month”, Gelato (2004) on the history of ice cream, Citizen Berlusconi (2003) on Silvio Berlusconi and the media and Public Enemy (1999), a portrait of four Black Panthers today.
Susan lived in Italy from 2000 - 2005, where she has also been teaching documentary writing for the Bologna Documentary Seminar and Zelig International Film School. She has a BA in Geology from Wesleyan University, an MA in Journalism from Columbia University School of Journalism and an MA in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Susan teaches at Boston University and Massachusetts college of Art and is the director of documentary department at Northern Light Productions in Boston.
Susan lived in Italy from 2000 - 2005, where she has also been teaching documentary writing for the Bologna Documentary Seminar and Zelig International Film School. She has a BA in Geology from Wesleyan University, an MA in Journalism from Columbia University School of Journalism and an MA in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Susan teaches at Boston University and Massachusetts college of Art and is the director of documentary department at Northern Light Productions in Boston.