Alfred de Montesquiou (born 1978) is a contemporary French reporter, author and documentary film director. He is a laureate of France's highest journalism prize, the Prix Albert Londres.
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Alfred de Montesquiou (born 1978) is a contemporary French reporter, author and documentary film director. He is a laureate of France's highest journalism prize, the Prix Albert Londres.
Born in 1978 in Paris, Alfred de Montesquiou is the son of Jean-Louis de de Montesquiou-Fezensac d’Artagnan and Claire Lefebvre de Laboulaye and a member of the Montesquiou family (which was authorized to add d'Artagnan to its name in 2012 but which is not descended from the famous French Musketeer Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan known as d'Artagnan (1611-1673) whose mother was a Montesquiou but who was not a member of the Montesquiou family. [1] )
He is a graduate in international relations from Sciences Po, and in journalism from the Columbia Journalism School in New York. He was a foreign correspondent and war correspondent for the Associated Press news agency from 2004 till 2010 first in Haiti then in the Middle-East, Afghanistan and North Africa. In 2010, he became a senior international correspondent for the French magazine Paris Match, and was awarded the 2012 Albert Londres prize for his coverage of the civil war in Libya. In 2013 he received the Interallie Nouveau Cercle literary prize for his essay on the Middle-East "Oumma". In 2015 he was the laureate of the French Press Editors' Association for his investigative work on the crash of the MH17 flight in the Ukraine.
As a documentary director and author, he has travelled across Asia along the Silk Road in the footsteps of Marco Polo for a 15 episode series for ARTE, and Amazon Prime. He conducted a 5 part series across South America, also for Arte. He has directed several prime time documentaries for French public TV channels France 2 and France 5 on subjects ranging from terrorism investigations to ecology.
He runs the film production company Dreamtime Films.
Films :
Books :
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