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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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Lisa Biagiotti
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She is the director and producer of deepsouth, a feature documentary about poverty, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and LGBT issues in the rural American South. Biagiotti is a Fulbright Fellow and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is of Hakka Chinese Jamaican descent.
She speaks publicly about digital journalism, and independently producing and self-distributing films.
Foreign her independent documentary deepsouth, Biagiotti spent two-and-a-half years reporting, driving 13,000 miles and interviewing more than 400 people. Upon completion, she was invited across rural America on a 150-stop grassroots film tour. deepsouth is referenced in almost every discussion about Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome crisis in the American South, and Biagiotti has been invited to The White House and Clinton Global Initiative to discuss the domestic epidemic.
Biagiotti’s work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio, Oxford American, and The Lancet. She writes about her 5-year journey of making the film in her Director’s Statement titled Same Virus, Different Disease.
Biagiotti is the producer of The World’s Toilet Crisis, an hour-long documentary that aired on the Vanguard series of Current television in 2010.
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She produced short video series for the nightly newscast Worldfocus on W National Educational Television on under-reported topics covering homophobia in the Caribbean and the humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo—the latter was awarded a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for International Television.
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