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Annalisa Piras is an Italian journalist and film-maker. She wrote, produced and directed the acclaimed film documentary " Girlfriend in a Coma". She was the London Correspondent for ''L'Espresso'' 1997-2011 and for La7 TV for six years. In 2006-2007 she was the first Italian president of the (London Foreign Press Association ). In 2013 she founded the (Wake Up Foundation ), with the aim to raise public awareness about the current state and decline of the Western Societies through film and storytelling. She is a regular member of the BBC ''Dateline London'' panel. She also provided (analysis ) on European and Italian Current Affairs for ''The Guardian''. As a political and social commentator she frequently appears on BBC News, Sky News, CNN, Al Jazeera and CNBC. Her BBC Radio 4 documentary (''The Italian Patient'' ) was shortlisted as the FPA Best Story of the Year by a UK-based foreign correspondent. Her TV documentary on the Hutton Enquiry, written and directed for La7 TV, was shortlisted for the same award in 2003. As EU senior editor, she was part of the initial team which launched Euronews, the pan-European multilingual news television channel, on 1 January 1993 in Lyon, France. In 2011–12 she produced, co-wrote and directed the first independent feature documentary on Italy seen from abroad, Girlfriend in a Coma, co-written and narrated by Bill Emmott, former editor of ''The Economist'', inspired by his book ''Good Italy, Bad Italy'' (Yale University Press). In 2015 Annalisa Piras directed the first (ever film on the EU crisis ) from an International point of view.〔''("The Great European Disaster Movie - About" )'', thegreateuropeandisastermovie.eu, May 29, 2015〕 This is being produced by BBC and Arte among others.〔''("The Great European Disaster Movie" )'', IMDb, imdb.com, May 29, 2015〕 == Girlfriend in a Coma == In 2012 Annalisa Piras produced, co-wrote and directed the first independent feature documentary on Italy as seen from abroad, Girlfriend in a Coma, working with Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist, as co-author and narrator.〔''("Girlfriend in a Coma" )'', IMDb, imdb.com, May 29, 2015〕 The film was made by Springshot Productions. The documentary is inspired by Emmott’s book Good Italy, Bad Italy (Yale University Press), as well as by Piras’s patriotic passion and insight about the country she left in the early 1990s. The film aims to introduce Italians and the World to the dark side of the country's political, economic and social decline, the product of a moral collapse in the West. It was broadcast on BBC Four, Sky Italia and La7 TV channels early in 2013, and subsequently on other channels worldwide as well as in public screenings. The “Girlfriend in a Coma” title is a citation of a British musical hit by The Smiths from their album Strangeways (1987). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Annalisa Piras」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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