Journalists around the world are under attack like never before. Repressive criminal and civil laws, threats, harassment and violence are used against journalists to stifle critical reporting. The num...
Raffaella Cosentino
Raffaella Cosentino is a journalist for Tgr Rai in Sicily and a documentary film director. She is a former human rights reporter and former freelance investigative journalist for BBC, Repubblica, L’Espresso and others. She was editor for Media Diversity projects such as Parlare Civile handbook (edizioni Bruno Mondadori 2013) and Questione di Immagine. She wrote the book Immigrazione (Città Nuova, 2016)
She won the “Ivan Bonfanti” prize (2011), “Gruppo dello Zuccherificio” investigative journalism award (2012), Gianluca Congiusta award (2017) at RiaceInFestival, and Pietro Di Donato award (2017) over working conditions and exploitation.
Her documentary films include Eu 013 The last frontier (2013), Sul fronte del mare (2016), Terre Impure (2017).
Events IJF 2020
Local isn’t what it used to be. The potential resonance and impact of any “local story” has been transformed over the past few years thanks to social media. And high-profile cases of investiga...
A documentary filmed inside the Italian Identification and Expulsion Centers (CIE), where each year about 8 thousand people are held for up to 18 months under administrative detention (without havin...
Over the last decade, a range of Italian politicians and political parties have from time to time fuelled the anxiety of citizens by claiming that the country's security has been threatened by uncontr...