Annalisa Piras

Annalisa Piras is a London-based Italian film director, producer and journalist. She is currently the director of Springshot Productions, an independent production company which specialises in documentaries.

In 2015 Annalisa Piras directed the first ever film on the EU crisis from an International point of view. This was produced by BBC and Arte among others. “The Great European Disaster Movie” has won the prestigious German CIVIS media prize in the information category. The film was selected among 930 applications by 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 the presence of EU broadcasters yesterday evening May 12th.

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 2013 Annalisa Piras 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. Through the Foundation Annalisa Piras and Bill Emmott have launched the campaign Wake Up Europe! to foster political debate over the crises facing Europe.

She was the London Correspondent for L'Espresso 1997–2011 and for La7 TV for six years. In 2006-2007 Annalisa was the first Italian president of the London Foreign Press Association.

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.

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