Benedetta Argentieri

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]

Biography

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] or Lebanons The Daily Star.[5] 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] After 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]

Movies

References
  1. "Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Benedetta Argentieri". Overseas Press Club of America. 25 October 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  2. "About – Benedetta Argentieri" (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  3. "Benedetta Argentieri: chiamata alle armi". Vogue Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  4. 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.
  5. "Benedetta Argentieri | Author's Page | THE DAILY STAR". www.dailystar.com.lb. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  6. "Benedetta Argentieri". www.wmm.com. Women Make Movies. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  7. Redazione. ""Çapulcu: Voices from Gezi": un film italiano vince l'Amnesty International Award | RB Casting". www.rbcasting.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  8. "Our War". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  9. "I am The Revolution" (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-26.
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