Oriol Andrés Gallart

A video journalist, documentary filmmaker and TV producer, my work focuses on Europe and the Middle East. Based in Barcelona, I specialise in international politics and social issues, with particular attention to human rights, migration, social movements, and peace and conflict resolution.

Previously, I spent nearly a decade in Beirut (2013–2021), working as a video journalist and editor for the Middle East Bureau of Catalan Public Television, as well as a regional correspondent for the Spanish radio network Cadena SER. During this period, I reported on major events including the war against ISIS in northern Iraq and Syria, the Great March of Return in Gaza, the constitutional referendum in Turkey, mass protests in Beirut and Baghdad, and the Pope’s visit to Iraq.

My work has also appeared in outlets such as Al Jazeera, Getty Images, Deutsche Welle TV, Middle East Eye, Inter Press Service News, Afkar/Ideas magazine and eldiario.es.

I am the author of Siria. Els rostres de la revolució (2024), a book on the civil resistance movement in Syria.

I have worked as a director, director of photography and screenwriter on documentaries in Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia, and as a video journalist on two assignments in Ukraine for France 24’s Spanish channel (2022). I am also the deputy director of the documentary series Women in Fight, which explores the experiences of women activists around the world, examining both rights violations and grassroots self-organisation.

I am the co-founder of Contrast Journalist Group, an organisation that promotes journalism as a tool for social transformation. Through Contrast, I have contributed to documentaries on post-war social, economic and political dynamics in different parts of the globe. Since 2011, I have also been the international co-editor of Directa magazine, an independent, cooperative investigative outlet based in Barcelona.

Alongside journalistic work, I have produced narrative visual content for NGOs such as Oxfam, the International Rescue Committee and Terre des Hommes Italy.

Academic training comprises a BA in Journalism and a Master’s degree in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University, complemented by a Graduate Diploma in Conflict and Peace Communication.

My work has received several awards, including two Joan Gomis Memorial Solidarity Journalism Prizes, for the feature The Refugee Somalia (2010) and the documentary Lebanon: Pact of Silence (2012), and the First Prize of the Catalan Peace Journalism Awards in its inaugural edition (2025) for the reportage series El batec de Síria.