Lindsey Parietti, "Blood Island" filmmaker — July 12, 2018

10/07/2018 26 min
Lindsey Parietti, "Blood Island" filmmaker — July 12, 2018

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Journalist Lindsey Parietti, an Altamont native, went to Egypt to learn Arabic and stayed for eight years, covering the revolution and co-founding an online newspaper, Mada Masr. She’s now in England, working on a series for the BBC, and has just won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for her documentary, “Blood Island,” about chimpanzees poached in Africa for medical research by the New York Blood Center and then abandoned on an island without food or water. — Photo from Lindsey Parietti Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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