Daphne Tolis

I am a producer/journalist, mostly working in broadcast, and a documentary filmmaker/photographer based in Athens.
I have reported from Greece and many other countries, as far afield as Bangladesh and Lebanon. Beyond my own documentary projects, I frequently work as a freelance field producer in Greece for large European and American television networks, including the ABC, BBC, VICE on HBO, NPR, PBS, Deutsche Welle, ZDF, VPRO and SRF. My work with these organisations involves setting up shoots, researching, using my contacts to gain access to key voices in Greece and around the Mediterranean, and field producing the shoots themselves. I also work as a field producer, journalist and translator assisting leading storytellers from around the world with feature stories and filming in Greece.
I have reported extensively on the refugee crisis as a documentary filmmaker, video journalist, photographer and field producer. I have visited many refugee camps and settlements across Greece. While following refugee flows, I have travelled to camps in Turkey, North Macedonia, Serbia, Italy, Lebanon, France and Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. I have won two Migration Media Awards for my reporting in this area, for stories I produced as a freelancer with colleagues from the BBC and VICE, respectively.