JOURNALIST AND DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER
Mark Franchetti worked 23 years as a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times of London. He has been based in Moscow for a very long time.
He was awarded the British Press Award for best foreign reporter for his coverage of the Moscow theatre siege when he entered the building twice during the hostage taking to interview the terrorists. He also won a Foreign Press Association award for his front-line report on the death of Iraqi civilians at the hand of U.S Marines which the judges cited as “the best of an excellent field of Iraq war reportage.” He has been shortlisted several times for both awards. He has written extensively about Russia and the former Soviet Union and covered the wars in Chechnya, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, and Ukraine. He has also reported on the Italian mafia. Working both in print and film, he produced The Condemned, (BBC Storyville) an indy feature-length documentary about a remote Russian prison exclusively for murderers which was voted a Grierson award finalist. He produced and co-directed Bolshoi Babylon, a feature-length documentary about life inside the Bolshoi Theatre, for HBO and the BBC. |
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