Dr. Sara Creta

Biography

Sara Creta is an award-winning documentary-maker and interdisciplinary researcher with a robust academic background in Political Communication, International Relations, and Human Rights. Her scholarly work focuses on the intersection of technology, transitional justice, human rights law, and fundamental freedoms, reflecting her decade-long commitment to bearing witness to the world's urgent humanitarian and human rights crises. Her latest feature documentary on Libya, 'Escape Hell', was nominated for the Albert Londres Prize, which is the highest French journalistic distinction. Creta has produced extensive work utilizing open-source investigation techniques, including data-driven investigations for BBC’s Africa Eye, where she documented forensic details regarding deaths at the border of Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. She holds a PhD in Journalism from Dublin City University and has been awarded the prestigious Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowship to conduct research at the Institute for Future Media, Democracy, and Society. As of March 2023, she is a postdoctoral researcher working on a project titled 'Views Violence: Images Documentary, Evidentiary Affective'. Creta teaches multimedia storytelling and media ethics through practice-based modules, including training at Al Jazeera Media Institute, focusing on open-source investigation and fact-checking.

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