Francesca Trianni is an Emmy-nominated producer and investigative journalist.
Her work has been shown and exhibited in art galleries, at film festivals and at institutions around the world, including the DOC NYC film festival, the Fotografiska Museum in New York and the Taormina Film Festival in Italy.
While a Senior Editorial Producer at VICE, Trianni developed high impact investigative documentaries for VICE TV. Trianni spent nearly a year investigating an automotive supplier that knowingly released PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, into the environment. This reporting culminated into an hour-long VICE Special Report, “Toxic Farmland.”
Prior to that, Trianni worked at TIME for nine years, where she directed and filmed Paradise Without People, an award-winning feature length documentary that follows two pregnant Syrian refugees as they navigate motherhood in a Greek refugee camp. A feature debut from TIME Studios, the film was screened at festivals internationally, including Big Sky and the Stockholm film festival, and was awarded Best Documentary at the Taormina and AmDocs Festivals.
In 2018, Trianni filmed and produced Finding Home, a multimedia interactive project that was honored by more than a dozen awards, including the World Press Photo Award for Innovative Storytelling, the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Awards, the POYi contest, and received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding New Approaches in Documentary.
Francesca has also been a guest speaker in dozens of journalism classes and conferences across the country, including the Columbia Journalism School and the International Center of Photography, and a mentor for video storytelling programs, including the Video Consortium’s 2021 Sony Mentorship Program and the Mountain Workshops.
Francesca graduated with honors from the Columbia Journalism School in New York.