Alessandro Pavone is a documentary producer who works with independent filmmakers, commissioning editors and foundations to develop film projects, their funding, and marketing strategies. He oversees worldwide distribution of television documentaries, including mostly recently BBC2’s “Shroud of Turin – Material Evidence.” He is a regular attendee and panelist at key documentary festivals and markets including the UK’s Sheffield Doc/Fest, MIPDOC, MIPCOM, Hot Docs, Sunny Side of the Docs, World Congress of Science & Factual Producers, Forum Brazil and IDFA, as well as Berlin and Cannes. Among his work as a filmmaker, Alessandro has produced and directed a range of human interest and issues documentaries, including “I Am From Bardhaj” shot in Albania for the Italian NGO CeLIM and “The Revolution of the Microcredit.” He has been a producer/director for the documentary series “Muhammad Yunus: My Nobel Prize to the Women” RAI television. His film, “The Big Race” on the trials and challenges facing immigrants in Western Europe won the 2006 Homo Migrans prize, the humanitarian award for documentary, as well a round of festival prize nominations. He teaches at the Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, ME USA.