Annalisa Piras

Annalisa Piras is a London-based Italian-British film director, impact producer and journalist. She is currently the director of Springshot Productions, an independent production company which specialises in hard hitting, current affairs documentaries. She also directs The Wake Up Foundation, an educational charity she co-founded with Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist. In 2019 The Wake Up Foundation founded and run the first Wake Up Europe Impact Films Festival, the first ever transnational impact documentary festival entirely devoted to showcase the best films produced worldwide to highlights the shared challenges our western societies face, with a special focus on the meaning of a European civic conscience. The Wake Up Europe Festival offered a "selection for reflection" of 10 films, which were screened and debated in Turin, Italy and across other nine European locations.Piras'2016 film, "Europe at Sea", a feature-length documentary co-produced by Arte and SVT was nominated for the 2016 Prix Europa, the Oscar of European Documentaries. It was broadcast across the world in 2017. The film looks at Europe's role on the global stage in light of today's transnational security challenges and the shifting sands of geopolitics. It gained exclusive access for the first time to the EU top diplomat, the High Representative for Foreign and Security Policies Federica Mogherini.

In 2015 Annalisa Piras directed “The Great European Disaster Movie”, the first ever film on the EU crisis from an international point of view. It was produced by BBC and Arte among others.“The Great European Disaster Movie” won the 2016 prestigious German CIVIS media prize in the information category. The film was selected among 930 applications from media programmes from all over Europe. The prize was bestowed by the German Federal President Joachim Gauck and the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz at a star studded event in the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin in May 2016.The film shot in 2014 predicted Brexit, the hardening of the migrant crisis, and the unravelling of the idealism behind the European integration project. Since then, it has become somehow a cult movie among audiences aware of the potential consequences of the slow disintegration of the collaboration spirit of the EU.

On May 19, 2016, in recognition of the educational and thought provoking value of The Great European Disaster Movie, the president of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy, On. Laura Boldrini, invited Annalisa Piras and Bill Emmott to screen the film in the Italian Parliament in front of an audience of Rome's secondary schools students.

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