Simone Duarte

Simone Duarte (Producer/Director) is a Brazilian journalist whose credits include a 2002 Emmy nomination for the news coverage of the 9/11 attacks and a 2001 Honorable Mention from the United Nations Correspondents Association for her TV series on East Timor. Duarte was the New York News Bureau chief of TV Globo, the main network in South America. She has 15 years of experience as a TV producer, writer and correspondent. In 1999, Duarte worked for the United Nations in East Timor in the early days of Sergio Vieira de Mello's administration. Her first short documentary Archivo de la Identidad (Archive of Identity, 2002), about the children who disappeared during the dictatorship in Argentina, has been featured in human rights film festivals around the world, including the Amnesty International Film Festival in the United States. Archivo de la Identidad has just been acquired by Brazilian TV. EN ROUTE TO BAGHDAD is her first feature documentary and has been shown in festivals around the world including the Tribeca Film Festival and the Miami International Film Festival. It has been broadcasted in Brazil, Portugal, and France and won the Silver Medal from the UN Correspondents Association. Duarte is a graduate in communications from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and has a MS in International Affairs from The New School. She is an Eisenhower fellow and member of the Alumni Advisory Council of the organization. She is also a member of the steering committee of the French think tank Institute pour la Ville en Mouvement.