Emanuela Zuccalà
As a journalist, a writer and a filmmaker, since late 90s Emanuela Zuccalà has been freelancing for media outlets in Italy and abroad, such as Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica, Avvenire, Internazionale, Worldcrunch, El Pais, Mail & Guardian, SciDev and many others.
Her work is focused on social issues, development topics, human rights, always with a gender perspective. She has reported from several countries in Sub-saharan Africa and from the Middle East, and has been awarded prestigious international journalist prizes such as the Press Freedom Award by Reporters Without Borders and the For Diversity-Against Discrimination Journalism Prize by the European Commission.
Emanuela Zuccalà is author of 8 books translated in Europe and South America.
Since 2011, after a Master Degree at New York Film Academy in the USA, she’s been producing and directing documentary movies. Her film “Just to Let You Know that I’m Alive” (co-directed by Simona Ghizzoni) won the Special Jury Award at Annecy Cinéma Italien Festival (France), the Special Mention at Margaret Mead Film Festival of the American Museum of Natural History (New York, USA), and has been finalist at the BBC Aan Korb Film Festival (London, UK).
Emanuela has been speaker and lecturer in universities, cultural centers and workshops on the topics of gender equality, women’s rights and the impact of war on women, and she’s also working as a media consultant and producer for international NGOs.
Her long-term multimedia project UNCUT on female genital mutilations, granted by the European Journalism Centre, has so far won 16 international journalism and documentary awards, has been exhibited at the European Parliament in Bruxelles and Strasbourg, and at the UN headquarter in New York (uncutproject.org/en).
Her latest multimedia project is CROSSING THE RIVER on the link between maternal mortality and gender inequality in Sub-saharan Africa: https://innovation.journalismgrants.org/projects/crossing-the-river
At the end of 2020 she has released her new documentary movie THE BUSH SCHOOL, deepening her long-term investigation on female genital mutilations in Sub-saharan Africa. The movie has won the first prize in the International Category at the festival Directed by Women Turkey (Istanbul, 2020) has been awarded as the Best Short Documentary at Dona i Cinema Film Festival (Valencia, Spain, 2021) and in other several festivals in Canada, UK, Italy. In 2021 it won “Marco Luchetta” Journalism Award.
In 2021 Emanuela released her latest book “Le guerre delle donne” (“Women’s wars”, Infinito Edizioni).
