Kamikairy Fares is an Italian-Palestinian visual storyteller. He has a degree at University of Rome in Cinema, then obtains another qualification at New York Film Academy. At the beginning, he starts working on film sets, in the fiction movie industry. These years, he also makes short films and advertisements on social issues, with one of which he wins an award at the Arcipelago Festival in Rome for the best story about ordinary integration. With one of his short movies “Innocenze perdute” (Innocenses lost), as screenplayer, he wins the Marzocco Prize and then it is among the finalist 12 short movies at Nastri d’Argento 2012.
He makes reportage and documentaries in intercultural context and situations of geographical and social marginalization. His works are about immigration, refugees, prisoners, mental health, prison, street children and much more. These documentaries tell mostly about the lives of ordinary people, largely ignored by mainstream media, marked by the conflicts in our present world, driven by the desire to make these stories accessible to everyone. He feels, as a visual storyteller, the Cinema of Reality as the most impressive and closest way to express his vision. After the documentary, "MinoTawra: exporting change”, about the end of Ben Ali’s regime in Tunisia, which is selected by several festivals and wins the Prime Prize at Lampedusa Festival, the Italian newspaper and webTV, Repubblica.it, contacts him, along with few others young video makers, to create a new young journalist team, within Repubblica, in order to develop a crew focus on web and investigative documentaries. He also collaborates with RSI (Swiss TV), RAI (Italian TV), UNHCR (making a video for World Refugee Day 2012 in Angola), Italian Production ZaLab, Open Society Foundation, AlJazeera, BBC, Il FattoQuotidiano.
Thanks to two investigative reports, he wins a special Prize for “best young journalist” at Festival of Mediterranean Journalists and then, he is the Winner of Bronze Medal of President of Republic Senate. During the last decade, he has followed for Vandana Shiva and Navdanya the International Monsanto Tribunal and has founded, with Luisa Morgantini, Assopace Palestine, a new International Film Festival, the Nazra Film Festival, focus on short movie about Middle East. He also realized, as director and film maker, the Promo for the Festival. Right now, mainly, he’s working on the realization of 1 documentary “Let Eva dream” set in the main woman’s maximum security prison of Rome, Rebibbia, with Mafia women. After working 3 yers for Conde Nast Italy he decides to move move and work in New York City where he is based right now