Carlo Pisani was born in Bari, Italy, in 1978 and grew up in Mozambique, Italy, and Tanzania, following his parents, who were doctors. He completed his secondary education in the UK, where a passion for photography led him to explore filmmaking. He made documentaries for NGOs in Angola, Tanzania, and Ethiopia, and graduated in Film Directing from Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia -Italy’s National film school- in 2006, winning the prestigious “Premio Solinas” screenwriting award. After living in Berlin and working as editor on projects like the Emmy-winning “Strictly Bolshoi,” he directed the documentary LoveTrips (2011). From 2011 to 2014, he produced commercial content and co-produced documentaries. For the past ten years, he has been a video journalist first and then Visual Storytelling Producer at SWI swissinfo.ch, earning third place at the 2020 Swiss Press Awards. He lives in Zurich with his three children.