Alfred de Montesquiou

Alfred de Montesquiou (born 1978) is a contemporary French reporter, author and documentary film director. He is a laureate of France's highest journalism prize, the Prix Albert Londres.

Biography

Born in 1978 in Paris, Alfred de Montesquiou was a foreign correspondent and war correspondent for the Associated Press news agency from 2004 till 2010 first in Haiti then in the Middle-East, Afghanistan and North Africa. In 2010, he became a senior international correspondent for the French magazine Paris Match, and was awarded the 2012 Albert Londres prize for his coverage of the civil war in Libya. He runs MatchProd, the documentary film subsidiary launched by Paris Match.

Bibliography & Films

Films :

• "South America: on the road of extremes," 2019, ARTE, 5 hour documentary series (author)
• "Animals against terrorism," : Sniffer dogs, de-mining rats, eagles trained against drones etc., France TV, 2018, 1 hour documentary (director)
• "Pere Hamel", France TV, 2018, 1 hour investigative documentary (director)
• "On The Silk Road" from Venice to Xi'an in the steps of Marco Polo, 2017, ARTE, 8 hour documentary series (author).
• "Gorilla War", Congo, France TV, 2015, 1 hour documentary (co-director)

Books :

• "La Route des Extrêmes", Paris 2019, Ed. Gallimard / Arte Editions
• "Silk Road", Paris, 2017, Ed. Le Chêne/ Arte Editions
• OUMMA, Ed. Seuil, Paris, April 2013. Laureate of the Nouveau Cercle Interallie Literary Prize.
• In Amenas (with Marie-Pierre Gröndhal) e-book, Lagardère, Jan 2013
• He is also the co-author of the texts for the photography book recollecting the work of Remi Ochlik, killed in Syria in February 2012