Emanuele Gerosa

Biography

Emanuele Gerosa was born in 1975 in Rovereto, Italy; in 2001 he graduated in Contemporary History at the University of Bologna and in the same year he began working as a filmmaker. Very early he became interested in documentaries, directing his passion from studying History to telling the Stories of ordinary people with a video camera.

In 2007 he began collaborating with an Italian NGO to make his first two medium-length documentaries. Kamenge Northern Quarters in Burundi and Lion Souls in Zimbabwe. Both films were selected in several international festivals, winning various awards, including the “Silver Audience Award” at the 15th Amnesty International Film Festival in 2010 in Canada.

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