Paul Moreira is a French journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is based in Paris, France. He has directed several investigative documentaries in conflict zones, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Burma, Palestine, Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia.
Paul Moreira has contributed to the emergence of investigative journalism on French television. [1] In 1999, in created the program "90 minutes" on Canal plus, a European television network. The investigations of his team collected several awards. Like "Escadrons de la mort : l'école française" by Marie Monique Robin. [2] This film got the award of the political documentary of "Audiovisual Club" of French senate in 2003, best investigative film at FIGRA, award of merit from Latin American Studies Association. [3] The investigation about the suicide of Judge Borrel proved it was actually a murder and contributed to reopen criminal investigations. [4] Following the success of the show and at the request of the management of Canal Plus, he created a weekly slot dedicated to investigative documentaries: Lundi Investigation.
In 2006, Paul Moreira left Canal+ to create an independent TV production company, Premieres Lignes (First Lines). [5]
Since then, he has been developing a line of investigative and comprehensive films on global issues. He works on assignment for various French channels: Canal Plus, Arte, France Televisions, La Chaine Parlementaire. His films have been broadcast in most European countries as well as Canada, India, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Russia...
In 2007, he published an essay on journalism, public relations, war reporting at the embedment age and perception management. [6]
Moreira heads the campaign Liberté d'Informer, [41] a civic society movement to align the restrictive French law on the more transparent American Freedom of Information Act model. A petition has gathered nearly 6,000 signatures and a strong public interest.
In the United States, 80 priests from the diocese of Boston have been accused of pedophilia. In 2008, the American Church paid more than two billion dollars in legal costs. From the United States, to France, to Belgium, to Italy, everywhere, the scandal erupts. And the year 2010 marks the end of silence and opacity.
Paul Moreira has investigated the visible and the invisible. He was able to slip behind the scenes of activists' actions against the silence of the Catholic Church in the face of these crimes, meet abusing priests but also investigate in the heart of the Vatican, with the authorities. Discoveries that sometimes go against what one suspects. One thing is certain: for the Catholic Church, Hell is here and now.
Internet technology made the Arab spring possible. It also enabled the outside world to see whatwas happening in the otherwise closed countries like Libya and Syria. But there is another side to technology – surveillance. And the governments, including those in the Middle East, are getting better in tracking communications, establishing geo-localisations and filter content.
Saturday 8 February, 3.00pm, Oliver Thompson Theatre, City University, London; UK Premiere
Primé au FICA Brésil; Prix de l'investigation au FIGRA, et la vidéo fait événement sur You Tube. COMMANDEZ LE DVD
sélectionné dans la section Autrement Vu au FIGRA
Special Commendation Prix Europa – Berlin 2016
Children as young as three are becoming addicted to mobile phones, harming their development and causing possible long-term damage. We follow some of the youngest cases and hear how our brains are affected by exposure to screens.
Paul Moreira: "Working for Netflix means working with a budget multiplied by five"
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