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                                                <div class="simple_popup_title">Patrice Barrat</div>
                                                Patrice Barrat is a founder and executive director of Bridge Initiative International.<br />
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The goals of Bridge Initiative are to facilitate the emergence and the development of: ­reflections, agreements and action programs at national and international levels, in favour of social, economical, cultural and political evolutions ­a neutral space of mediation to allow actors of globalization to take part in encounters, debates, media events and to provide a better information for citizens (www.bridge­initiative.org).<br />
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The work of Bridge Initiative started in 2001, after Patrice Barrat had produced, with Evelyn Messinger from Interact US, a unique satellite dialogue (VIS­à­VIS: THE GLOBALIZATION DIVIDE) between participants to the World Economic Forum in Davos and the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. Patrice Barrat is also a television Producer/Director and President of Article Z (www.articlez.fr), the Paris­based multi­media production company that creates new formats such as daily documentary chronicles, and the new format Mad Mundo which focuses on globalization issues from a citizen's perspective (www.madmundo.tv)<br />
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Barrat has won many awards in 29 years of journalism, including the Amnesty <br />
International award, BAFTA award, FIPA Golden Award and Adolf Grimme Preis for documentaries like FAMINE FATIGUE, DROWNING BY BULLETS, the VIS à VIS series, SARAJEVO: A STREET UNDER SIEGE and THE OTHER ALGERIA. Films he produced were also featured at the Cannes Film Festival (CONDOR: AXIS OF EVIL) and in Locarno and Rotterdam (HOW ARNOLD WON THE WEST).<br />
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Barrat started in radio at RTL in 1976, was a foreign affairs correspondent for Nouvelles Littéraires, became chief editor of Gamma Television and founded the television press agency Point du Jour in 1988. Patrice Barrat also founded Internews Europe in 1995, a non­profit organization which launched several projects to support television professionnals and productions around the world: in the Caucasus, in Algeria, in the Former Yugoslavia. These projects received grants from the European Commission, UNESCO and UNHCR. He was the first Secretary General of Internews International. Barrat was also a board member of INPUT (International Conference of Public Television) of the One World Group or Broadcasters and of Causes Communes.
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