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About
Francesc Badia i Dalmases is an award-winning independent journalist, film maker, documentary producer, communications expert and consultant, and founder and editor (2015-2025) of democraciaAbierta, a global platform for Latin American voices and a section in Spanish and Portuguese of openDemocracy, London. He is a frequent international affairs analyst and media commentator, speaker at international debates and think tank seminars worldwide, and a regular contributor to El País, The Guardian, and many other international media. Badia is a multiple Pulitzer Center grantee and has been awarded the Gabo Prize for his work in the Amazon with the Rainforest Journalism Fund granted video series ‘Rainforest Defenders’. Apart from his native Spanish, he is fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan. Badia was born in Mexico and spends most of his professional life between Latin America, Africa and Europe. Badia is the author of several books, including Order and Disorder in the 21st Century (Barcelona 2016), and more recently Disruptions. Backlash and Resistances of Latin American Democracies (London, 2025).
Audiovisual Work
Documentary &
Audiovisual Production
Documentaries
Documentary
A Green Paradox: Deforesting the Amazon for Wind Energy in the Global North
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Documentary
The Struggle for Kimsacocha: Water Flows Like Our Blood
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Documentary
Pandemia & Fake News en el Alto Xingú
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Documentary
Winds of Change Blow Through Indigenous Lands in La Guajira
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Institutional Documentary
UNDP / INFF: Nigeria
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Institutional Documentary
UNDP / INFF: Financing Zanzibar's Future
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Awarded Short Documentary Series
Rainforest Defenders
Rainforest Defenders is an awarded multimedia series that seeks to land the abstract question of the climate crisis in the daily lives of young people who play a fundamental role, until now underreported and under-recognized, in the defense and conservation of the Amazon ecosystem in Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.
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Other Documentary Series
Multimedia Series
Resistances: Words and Art for Fighting Political Defamation
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Documentary Series
Walking on the Edge of Migrations
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Journalistic Audiovisual Projects
Audiovisual Project
Unboxing democraciaAbierta / with Sandra Borda
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Audiovisual Project
O Informante / with Jean Wyllys
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Audiovisual Project
Al Habla Venezuela
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Audiovisual Project
La Borrasca
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Audiovisual Project
Venezuela: Ciudadanía Freestyle / Frecuencia Autónoma
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Audiovisual Project
Flares from the Amazon
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Conversations & Interviews
Interviews
Conversations on democracy, media, development, and the future of Latin America.
Written Work
Selected Publications
Barcelona · 2017
El ecosistema de la democracia abierta
eBook on open democracy and digital civic participation
Edward Elgar · 2010
Small-World Networks and the Internet
Chapter contribution — Edward Elgar Publishing
Trajectory
2025
Disruptions
London · Book
2024
Time is Water
Amazon Basin · Documentary
2023
Rainforest Defenders
Brazil · Documentary
2022
A Green Paradox
La Guajira · Documentary
2021
Gabo Prize — Amazon
Amazon Basin · Award
2016
Order and Disorder
Barcelona · Book
2015
democraciaAbierta Editor
London / Global · Editorial
2014
CIDOB Research Fellow
Barcelona · Research
Collaborators
Team: Associated Partners
For shooting documentaries, film-making and audiovisual projects, we regularly work in collaboration with several professional associated partners, including Pablo Albarenga, Cristina Juliana Abril and Andrés Bernal.
Andrés Bernal
Communications Officer & Audiovisual Producer
Andrés Bernal is Communications Officer at IFIT (Institute for Integrated Transitions), Barcelona, and formerly Audiovisual Producer at openDemocracy / democraciaAbierta. He holds a Masters in International Relations from IBEI (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals). With expertise spanning communications strategy, documentary production, and digital media, he has been a key collaborator across the full range of democraciaAbierta's audiovisual output, from the migration series to the Venezuela and Latin America documentary projects.
Joint Projects
Walking on the Edge of Migrations
Documentary Series
The Struggle for Kimsacocha: Water Flows Like Our Blood
Documentary
Winds of Change Blow Through Indigenous Lands in La Guajira
Documentary
O Informante / with Jean Wyllys
Journalistic audiovisual project
La Borrasca
Journalistic audiovisual project
Venezuela Frecuencia Autónoma
Journalistic audiovisual project
Get in Touch
Contact
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- OFFICEIBEI — Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals
Office 23/224, 2nd Floor, Edifici Mercè Rodoreda, Ramon Trias Fargas 25–27 · 08005 Barcelona
Available for interviews, speaking engagements, documentary co-productions, and media consulting. Based between Barcelona, Latin America, and Africa.