Daniele Segre (Alessandria, 1952 - Torino, 2024) was an author, film and theater director and professor of documentary filmmaking. His films have almost always been broadcast on public networks and screened at the Venice Film Festival, as well as various other national and international festivals, receiving many awards, including the Giuliani De Negri Award at the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Tulip at the Istanbul International Festival, the CICAE award at the Annecy Italian Film Festival, the Filmmakers Award, and the NICE award in New York. Since 1996 he has taught the course "Cinema in reality" at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Since 2014 he has directed the course in reporting held on the Abruzzo campus of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - National Film School.