Carol Pineau, Director and Producer

Carol Pineau is a journalist with more than a decade of experience reporting on Africa.  Her documentary, Africa Open for Business, premiered in April 2005 and screened at the Cannes Film Festival where she was presented the "Africa Vision Award."  She was the honoree at the US-Africa Business Summit in 2005.  Africa Open for Business screened at several high level venues, including the World Economic Forum, where Ms. Pineau was a plenary speaker, United Nations, US State Department and US Congress.  BBC World is expanding the film to a three-part series airing in May.  Following BBC's broadcast premiere, the film will be distributed throughout the PBS network in the fall, and the Africa Channel will expand the film to a 10-part series.  Ms. Pineau is also currently writing a companion book.

Throughout two postings in Africa, as well as several assignments worldwide, Ms. Pineau has interviewed both Heads of State and rebel leaders, covering many of the world's major hot spots.  From the battlefields of the Eritrean/Ethiopian war, she reported live for CNN on, what was at the time, the world's biggest war.  From Belgrade, she covered the NATO bombings, and from East Timor she reported on the newly independent country's first elections.  Ms. Pineau reported live on the first-ever genocide conviction at the UN Tribunal for Rwanda, did exclusive reports from a secret military base in rebel-held Eastern Sudan, and was one of the first journalists into Nigeria after the fall of the military dictator.

Ms. Pineau has also reported extensively on the changing face of Africa.  While living in Paris in the 1990's, Ms. Pineau hosted and reported for RFI's (Radio France Internationale) Crossroads, a half-hour world-wide radio show that reported on Africa, for Africa.  The program featured stories on Africa's trouble spots, as well as business, trade, culture, and more.  She also presented African and international news for the French overseas television RFO (Radio-Television de Frace Outre-Mer).

Ms. Pineau is the author of numerous articles as well as a book.  She currently lives in Washington with her husband and daughter.