Gianfranco Rosi

Of the many films nominated for Oscars this year, two focus their lenses on the migrant crisis. Two filmmakers in the running for an Academy Award talk to The Takeaway here. 

Gianfranco Rosi discusses the Oscar-nominated documentary he directed 'Fire At Sea'.

Director Gianfranco Rosi joins us to discuss his new Oscar-nominated documentary, “Fire at Sea,” about refugees’ dangerous journeys crossing the Mediterranean.

For a year and a half, director Gianfranco Rosi lived on board Italian warships responding to distress calls from migrants. He tells this story in the new film "Fire at Sea."