Domenico Quirico
Journalist, war correspondent, he has followed countless news events for his newspaper "La Stampa", in particular from 2010 onwards the so-called "Arab Spring". As a journalist in Libya in 2011 he was kidnapped for a short time; experience that happened to him again in 2013 in Syria, where instead he remained a prisoner for five long months. Winner in 2015 of the "Brancati Prize", in 2016 the documentary Ombre dal fondo, on his experience as a journalist and as a prisoner, was presented during the Days of Authors at the Venice International Film Festival