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Biography

Joseph Gordillo has been a journalist since 1989. He started his professional career as a journalist with RTL TV in Luxembourg, directing international news features covering the major events of the time such as the war in Rwanda in 1994. He gradually moved to the documentary form, initially with books compiling photographs and first-person testimonies such as his first about the last iron miners, published in 1992 by Klopp. He followed this with “Passion Charbon”, published by Serpenoise, on the subject of coal miners. Since 1998, Joseph Gordillo has been working for the French-German arts and culture channel Arte as an international correspondent, directing current affairs segments covering, for instance, the war in Iraq, the crisis in Darfur and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2012, he won the Franco-German award for journalism, in the multimedia category, for the documentary web-series, “Les indignés”, commissioned by Arte. Since 2007, Joseph Gordillo has concentrated on writing and directing long-form documentaries.

Biography

Joseph Gordillo has been a journalist since 1989. He started his professional career as a journalist with RTL TV in Luxembourg, directing international news features covering the major events of the time such as the war in Rwanda in 1994. He gradually moved to the documentary form, initially with books compiling photographs and first-person testimonies such as his first about the last iron miners, published in 1992 by Klopp. He followed this with “Passion Charbon”, published by Serpenoise, on the subject of coal miners. Since 1998, Joseph Gordillo has been working for the French-German arts and culture channel Arte as an international correspondent, directing current affairs segments covering, for instance, the war in Iraq, the crisis in Darfur and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2012, he won the Franco-German award for journalism, in the multimedia category, for the documentary web-series, “Les indignés”, commissioned by Arte. Since 2007, Joseph Gordillo has concentrated on writing and directing long-form documentaries.