TITI – In cyclone’s wake
Title: TITI – In cyclone’s wake
Directed by
Country: Madagascar
Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds
SYNOPSIS
On climate change front line, Madagascar has been badly hit by successive cyclones. Titi, a nurse from Niger, joins medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières and reaches inaccessible rural communities to confront the alarmingly rising rates of child malnutrition.
Directors’ Bio
Natasha Blatsiou
Natasha Blatsiou is a documentary filmmaker and writer. She was the co-director and writer of the short film The Refuge that received the Award of Excellence at the international POYi competition (2020) and scriptwriter of the documentary trilogy Dying for Europe (2015) that won more than 15 international awards, amongst them World Press Photo 2017, POYi 2016, IPA 2016 and MIFA 2016, GMFF 2019 (organised by IOM) and was shown in 120 countries. Blatsiou was honored as a Fulbright Artist Scholar at Open Documentary Lab/MIT (2022) and Fellow at Onassis AiR (2023). She has attended the documentary summer school of NTFS (London), where she directed her first short film Islanders (2013). She has also been a part of the Summer Documentary Lab at UNIONDOCS in Brooklyn (2017) and the European Social Documentary training initiative (2020). She had a long-standing career as a journalist for Greek and international media and today she works as a freelancer in the fields of documentary writing, research and filmmaking. She is currently developing her first feature film unwritten land.
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