Dr.Farasi

Dr. Vincenzo Cavallo, also known as Dr. Farasi or Dr. Faras in East Africa, has been a Berlinale Talent in 2018 and 2019, he won the best pitch VFF award at Berlinale Co-Production Market with Bufis (...) a film supported among others by the World Cinema Fund currently available on Netflix. He is the founder of the legendary Nairobi BUS and the director of an awarded feature film, a tv series, a web series an XR experience and more than fifty documentaries on social, political, cultural and humanitarian issues, one among them "Almost Somali" has recently won an award as Best Continental Short Doc and it's currently available on arte.tv as part of Generation Africa. His first XR experience African Space Makers received the Lumiere Award as best director and the XR Must Award and it was selected at XR Venice 2020, his first feature film WAZI?FM received among other awards the Golden Dhow at the 18th edition of the Zanzibar Film Festival (ZIFF). His first web series Connection House was awarded at Roma Web Fest 2016 for best direction and Berlin Web Fest 2017 for best comedy. He produced, wrote and directed a 12 episode TV series on Afro-Colombian music that won the CNTV (Chile) award and the Co-production award of RTVC (Colombia). In 2010 he obtained a Ph.D. in Communication and New Technologies after working for UN/DESA and co-founding Cultural Video Foundation and Cultural Video Production. Since 2007 he has been working in Africa and Latin America with Cultural Video Group producing and directing video projects and communication campaigns for UN agencies such as UNEP and FAO.