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Anne Poiret (born December 6, 1976) is a French journalist and documentary filmmaker. She won the 2007 Albert Londres Prize [1] [2] [3] and the 2022 International Emmy Awards for best documentary. [4] [5] She is an expert in topics related to war and post-war situations.
After completing a B.A. in history from the University of Paris X Nanterre, Anne Poiret studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. She graduated in 1999 and the following year completed coursework toward a master's degree in journalism at New York University. [6]
Poiret has worked for various editorial offices and news magazines, including C dans l’air on France 5, "Envoyé Spécial" on France 2, as well as "Arte reportage" on Arte. [2] She writes and directs documentaries about topics such as: aftermath of armed conflicts, human and political consequences of wars, and actions of the United Nations and other international non-governmental organizations. [2] [7]
Her first film, Muttur: Crime against Humanitarians, [8] investigates the unsolved murder of 17 humanitarian workers in Sri Lanka. It earned the prestigious Albert Londres Prize. [2] [3]
Many of her subsequent films focus on countries going through postwar reconstruction, such as Iraq [9] and the Republic of South Sudan. [10] [11] She has also investigated the genocide of the Herero and Namas in Namibia, [12] as well as the situation in the regions of Donbass, [13] Kashmir, [14] and Syria [15] [2]
Much of Poiret's work questions the actions of public authorities and international companies (e.g. Epidemics: the invisible threat [16] , Welcome to Refugeestan [17] or My country makes weapons [18] [19] ).
Her documentaries are usually released first on French public television network; many are subsequently broadcast on European, Canadian, Australian, Japanese and the Middle Eastern TV channels.
One of her most recent documentaries, Iraq’s Lost Generation, [20] won the 2022 International Emmy Awards for best documentary. [4] [21] [22]
Her Emmy-nominated documentary, Iraq's Lost Generation, [20] focuses on the “Cubs of the Caliphate” a generation of young and forgotten victims of the war against the Islamic State. These are the children of families who had pledged allegiance to the caliphate and are now denied any legal existence. [28] [29]
The film was sold on 20 networks including Al Jazeera English, BBC Arabic and NHK. It has already received multiple awards, [30] including the 2022 International Emmy Awards for best documentary. [4] [31]
Layth Abdulamir is an Iraqi-French filmmaker born on 24 October 1957 in Iraq. He studied film in Paris, France, from 1977 to 1980, and in Kiev from 1980 to 1986. Since 1994, he defended his dissertation at the Rylsky National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,. He received his PHD degree in Cinematic Critic he has made several documentary films for various TV channels in France and for Dubai TV in the United Arab Emirates (1999-2004). In 2021, Layth Abdulamir's book Extreme cinema, transcending the borders of aesthetics was published by Arwegh مؤسسة أروقة للدراسات والترجمة والنشر Editions in Cairo.
Grégory Monro is a French filmmaker, writer and actor.
Benoîte Groult was a French journalist, writer, and feminist activist.
The Albert Londres Prize is the highest French journalism award, named in honor of journalist Albert Londres. Created in 1932, it was first awarded in 1933 and is considered the French equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Three laureates are awarded each year. The three categories are : "best reporter in the written press", "best audiovisual reporter" and "best reporting book".
InformAction Productions is a Montreal-based Canadian documentary film production company founded in 1971 by producer Nathalie Barton, directors Jean-Claude Bürger and Gérard Le Chêne. Their films explore major contemporary social and political issues or focus on human stories, art and culture. In 1999 and 2000 producers Ian Quenneville and Ian Oliveri joined the company so as to work with Nathalie Barton.
Olivier Weber is a French writer, novelist and reporter at large, known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a war correspondent for twenty-five years, especially in Central Asia, Africa, Middle-East and Iraq. He is an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, president of the Prize Joseph Kessel and today ambassador of France at large. Weber has won several national and international awards of literature and journalism, in particular for his stories on Afghanistan and for his books on wars. His novels, travels writing books and essays have been translated in a dozen of languages.
Benoît Bringer is a French filmmaker, investigative journalist and author. Among others, his documentaries as been selected in prestigious festivals such as the Hotdocs in Canada, DOC NYC and Palm Spring Film Festival in USA, Raindance Film Festival in UK, CPH:DOX in Denmark, Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece or the french leading documentary festival FIPADOC. In a highly cinematic style, his films tell inspiring, often intimate stories.
Nicolas Mathieu is a French author and winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2018.
CAPA is a French press agency and production company founded on August 1, 1989, by Hervé Chabalier. It is the largest production company for television reports and documentaries in France. The firm, which is part of Newen since 2011, produces about 150 hours of documentaries and television reports every year. It has 3 subsidiaries: CAPA Presse, CAPA Corporate and CAPA Drama.
The Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best documentary film made within the cinema of Quebec.
The Prix Iris for Best Cinematography in a Documentary is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best cinematography in documentary films made within the Cinema of Quebec.
The Prix Iris for Best Editing in a Documentary is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best film editing in documentary films made within the Cinema of Quebec.
The Prix Iris for Best Animated Short Film is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best animated short film made within the cinema of Quebec.
The Prix Iris for Best Sound in a Documentary is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best film sound in documentary films made within the Cinema of Quebec.
The Prix Iris for Best Short Documentary is an annual award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the best short documentary films made in the Cinema of Quebec. The award was presented for the first time at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021.
SofiaAlaoui is a French-Moroccan director and screenwriter. She is best known for her short film Qu'importe si les bêtes meurent.
Asmae El Moudir is a Moroccan film director, screenwriter and producer.
Françafrique is a French documentary film by Patrick Benquet, dedicated to the special relations between the French power and the former African colonies, after the independence acquired by these territories. The documentary was noticed in particular by the testimonies, which it includes, of former speakers.
Sorella Epstein, born on August 25, 1931 in Liepāja, was a young Latvian girl, murdered because she was Jewish, on December 15, 1941, during the Liepāja massacres.
The Lumières Award for Best Documentary is an award presented annually by the Académie des Lumières since 2016.
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