Sasha Joelle Achilli
Sasha Joelle Achilli is a BAFTA, Emmy and duPont Columbia award-winning documentary filmmaker who has spent her career getting at the heart of difficult stories in some of the most remote parts of Africa and the Middle East. At the height of the pandemic Sasha filmed, produced and directed the BAFTA- and Emmy-nominated film Inside Italy’s COVID War for FRONTLINE and the BBC where she went inside a hospital in Northern Italy to tell the story of a doctor on the frontline of the pandemic. Sasha’s work as a director includes Murdered for Love, a BBC film about the honor killing of a British-Pakistani...
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Areas of Expertise:
Terrorism, War and Conflict, Social Issues, World
Languages:
Italian and English native language, French elementary conversation
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Stories from Sasha Joelle Achilli
Syria’s Detainee Files
Inside the Iranian Uprising
Inside Italy’s COVID War
Kids Caught in the Crackdown
Outbreak
Policies
Teacher Center
Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation
Koo and Patricia Yuen
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