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Mrs Nicole Leghissa
story-teller, OWSD
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I am a director, documentary author and a filmmaker.
I directed reportages and documentaries for RAI, ARTE, Histoire and Associated Press Television News. I am based in Trieste, Italy.
I am currently a consultant filmmaker for The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), a UNESCO programme. Together with OWSD and other UN organizations, I travelled the world - mainly in Africa and Asia - giving visibility to researchers and communities that are generally under-exposed in global media.
I graduated in International and Diplomatic Sciences with a thesis in macro-economy on the end of the Socialist Economical System and its impact in Cuba. I worked for theatre festivals and television, being executive producer, assistant director and researcher for British and North-American independent production companies producing long feature historical documentaries, broadcasted on PBS, Discovery Channel, Channel 4 and HBO.
I am particularly proud of three films I directed: the short film "Ecoute la mer", a dreamy fairy tale about friendship shot in Palestine, "The Weak Current", a documentary that intertwines colonialism and neocolonialism in Africa, aired on Histoire and RAI, premiered at Fespaco Film Festival in Burkina Faso.
Eventually "Science in Exile", a documentary on refugee-scientists fleeing from war zones - Syria, Yemen and Iraq - that premiered at the World Science Forum in Jordan and has been screened in more than 20 countries.