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Hernán Zin

Hernán Zin (born 1971) is an Argentine-Italian war correspondent, writer, producer and filmmaker based in Madrid, Spain.[1] Since 1994, he has traveled around the globe directing documentary films, writing books and contributing to news outlets.[2]

Hernán Zin
Zin in Ethiopia, July 2007
Born1971 (age 52–53)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
OccupationFilm Director
WebsiteWeb personal

He has worked in more than 80 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. War, poverty, the environment and human rights are the main subjects of his work.[3][4]

From 1994 to 1998 he was based in Calcutta, India, where he created homes for street children and produced his first documentary "Calcuta, vida en la estación de la muerte". The second part of the documentary was presented by Penelope Cruz and the music score was composed by Alejandro Sanz.[citation needed]

Five of his documentary films have been premiered by Netflix worldwide.[5] And the rest of his films and series were released by HBO, Amazon Prime Video, National Geographic, Canal Plus and dozens of TV stations around the world.

His books have been published in more than 20 countries.

He is the son of Italian senator Claudio Zin and dated the Grammy Award-winning Spanish singer Bebe and the awarded actress Nerea Barros.[6][7]

Journalism

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As a free lance journalist he contributed to The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, El Pais, El Mundo, La Nación, Clarín, ABC, La Voz de Galicia, 20 Minutos..

In 2002, his research into European and American pedophile networks in Cambodia, published in the newspaper El Mundo and in the book "Helado y patatas fritas", lead into the detention of half a dozen pedophiles.[8]

From 2006 to 2015 he wrote the blog "Trip to War" for the newspaper 20 Minutos. This blog took him to DR Congo, Somalia, Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Brazil, Kenya and Bosnia and Herzegovina.[9] Its aim was to give voice to the victims of war. In 2011 the blog was nominated to the BOBs Awards.[10]

From 2011 to 2015 he worked for Canal Plus producing and filming documentaries from Afghanistan, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, USA, Argentina, Honduras, Mexico, India and Argentina. This show won the Ondas Award and two nominations for the Spanish TV Academy Awards.

When he was shooting the documentary "Hooligans" in Argentina, he was beaten and robbed by a mob of Independiente Club fans.[11]

In 2015, he was nominated to the Rory Peck Awards, that recognizes the best war reporters in the world.[12]

Production companies

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In 2002 he founded Doc Land Films in Madrid,[13] one of the leading documentary production companies in Europe.

In 2020, Doc Land Films opened offices in Dubai and Los Angeles.[14]

In 2021 he founded Pod Land, a leading podcast production company in the Spanish speaking world.[15]

He is the current CEO of Doc Land Films and Pod Land.

Filmography

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  • ¿Qué horas son? (2022) - director, producer, scriptwriter.
  • 13 Days - documentary series (2022) - director, scriptwriter.[16]
  • The Sightseers (2022) - director, producer, scriptwriter.
  • The Dictator's Tomb (2022) - director, producer, scriptwriter.
  • Letizia, Queen (2022) - director, scriptwriter.[17]
  • Raíces - documentary series (2022) - director, scriptwriter.[18]
  • We are Unique (2022) - director, scriptwriter.[19]
  • Pandemic Tour Belako (2021) - director, producer, scriptwriter.[20]
  • Memory (2021) - producer.
  • Fortuna (2021) - producer.
  • 57 Days (2020) - producer.
  • 2020 (2020) - director, producer, scriptwriter.
  • Angels With Swords (2020) - producer.
  • The State Against Pablo Ibar - documentary series (2019) - DOP.
  • Dying to tell (2018) - director, producer, scriptwriter.
  • Giants (2018) - director, scriptwriter.
  • Born in Syria (2017) - director, producer, scriptwriter, DOP.
  • Bandoliers (2017) - director, producer, scriptwriter.
  • 10 Years with Bebe (2016) - director, producer, scriptwriter, DOP.
  • Kenya, Blood Tusks (2015) - producer, DOP.
  • Matadoras (2015) - director, producer, scriptwriter, DOP.
  • 10 Elephants (2015) - director, producer, scriptwriter.
  • Rwanda, How to Organize a Genocide (2014) - producer, DOP.[21]
  • Born in Gaza (2014) - director, producer, scriptwriter, DOP.
  • Honduras, Living with the Maras (2014) - producer, DOP.
  • India, No Country for Women (2014) - producer, DOP.
  • War Against Women (2013) - director, producer, scriptwriter, DOP.
  • Extreme America (2013) - producer, DOP.
  • Uganda, hunting the gays (2013) - producer, DOP.
  • I Want to be Messi (2013) - director, producer, scriptwriter, DOP.
  • Afghanistan, Walking Over Bombs (2012) - producer, DOP.
  • Hooligans (2012) - producer, DOP.
  • Warlords (2011) - producer, DOP.
  • Women that Change the World - documentary series (2011) - director, producer, scriptwriter, DOP.
  • Kill the Albinos (2011) - producer, DOP.
  • Slum World (2009) - director, producer, scriptwriter, DOP.

Awards

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  • 2022: Emmy Awards. Nomination. "57 Days".
  • 2022: Guadalajara International Film Festival. Official Selection "Memory".
  • 2022: Málaga Film Festival. Official Selection "Memory".
  • 2022: Academy Awards Candidate "57 Days".
  • 2021: San Sebastián Film Festival. Official Selection "Pandemic Tour Belako".
  • 2021: FlickerFest. Best Documentary Short "57 Days".
  • 2020: Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival. Juror's Award "2020".
  • 2020: Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival. Audience Award "2020".
  • 2020: Valladolid International Film Festival. Tiempo de Historia Award "57 Days".
  • 2018: Montreal Film Festival. Best Documentary "Dying to Tell".
  • 2018: Valladolid International Film Festival. Best Documentary "Dying to Tell".
  • 2017: Platino Awards. Best Documentary "Born in Syria".
  • 2017: Iris Awards. "Born in Syria".
  • 2017: Goya Awards. Nominee Best Documentary "Born in Syria"
  • 2017: Forqué Awards. Best Documentary "Born in Syria"
  • 2017: CEC Awards. Best Documentary "Born in Syria"
  • 2016: Latin Grammy. Nominee Best Documentary "10 years With Bebe"
  • 2016: Forqué Awards. Best Documentary "Born in Gaza"
  • 2015: Goya Awards. Nominee Best Documentary "Born in Gaza"
  • 2015: Platino Awards. Nominee Best Documentary "Born in Gaza"
  • 2015: Rory Peck Award. Finalist. "Born in Gaza"
  • 2014: CEC Awards. Best Documentary "Born in Gaza"
  • 2014: Iris Awards. Nominee "Canal Plus Stories"
  • 2013: Iris Awards. Nominee "Canal Plus Stories"
  • 2010: International TV Academy Award for his defense of Human Rights.

Books

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  • Querida guerra mía (La Esfera de los Libros, 2018). ISBN 978-8491642541
  • Llueve sobre Gaza (BDE Books, 2007) ISBN 978-8466631952
  • La libertad del compromiso (Plaza and Janes, 2005) ISBN 978-8401379079
  • Helado y patatas fritas (Plaza and Janes, 2003) ISBN 978-8401378430
  • Un voluntario en Calcuta (Ediciones Martínez Roca, 2002) ISBN 978-8484602286

References

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  1. ^ Hernán Zin: "Tras quince años en guerras he aprendido a no juzgar", 20 Minutos, 25 September 2008.
  2. ^ RAMÓN, ESTEBAN (2020-11-25). "Hernán Zin: "No ver imágenes de la pandemia nos ha dificultado su gestión emocional"". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  3. ^ Hernán Zin: un argentino que vive entre guerras y tragedias, Perfil, 17 March 2009.
  4. ^ Hernán Zin, periodista y autor del documental Villas Miseria, El País, 9 October 2009.
  5. ^ de 2019, 17 de Mayo. "Netflix estrena en más de 100 países "Morir para contar", el documental de Hernán Zin sobre corresponsales de guerra". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Furundarena, Arantza. "Bebe: Todavía me subo a los árboles". El Correo. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  7. ^ Aisge (2020-05-29). "Fotogalerías #ArtistasVsPandemia 4 Nerea Barros y Hernán Zin". aisge.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  8. ^ "El periodista caza pederastas > elmundolibro - No Ficción". www.elmundo.es. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  9. ^ "Viaje a la guerra". Viaje a la guerra (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  10. ^ "'Viaje a la guerra' nominado a mejor blog por The BOBs, los 'Oscar' de la blogosfera". 20bits (in European Spanish). 2011-03-23. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  11. ^ elEconomista.es (2012-04-16). "Las 'barras bravas' de Argentina agreden a Hernán Zin y Jon Sistiaga - EcoDiario.es". ecodiario.eleconomista.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  12. ^ "Sony Impact Award for Current Affairs | The Rory Peck Trust". El Rory Peck Trust (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  13. ^ AV451, Redacción (2020-10-20). "El cineasta Hernán Zin lanza Doc Land, una nueva productora de documentales que pretende convertirse en referencia en España". Audiovisual451 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Doc Land". Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  15. ^ "Podland Official Site". Podland (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  16. ^ Orellana, Jesús Sánchez (2022-05-25). "El rescate del pequeño Julen tendrá serie documental que ya se está grabando". cadena SER (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  17. ^ 20minutos (2022-09-11). "Telemadrid estrena el documental 'Letizia, Reina' con motivo de su 50 cumpleaños". www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ RTVE.es (2022-01-12). "Las 'Raíces' del chef Carlos Maldonado se convierten en una serie documental de RTVE Play". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  19. ^ Peris, Guillermo Peris. "laSexta estrenará el 9 de febrero el documental 'Somos Únicxs: las caras del bullying'". Diario Siglo XXI (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  20. ^ Querol, Ricardo de (2022-06-17). "'Pandemic Tour 2020 Belako': cuando tuvimos que bailar sentados". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  21. ^ Ruanda: Cómo organizar un genocidio (TV) (2014) (in Spanish), retrieved 2022-07-27
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