AWARDS AND HONORS
News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Nominee, Outstanding Climate, Environment and Weather Coverage, Toxic Farmland | 2024
Deadline Club Awards, Magazine Investigative Reporting, finalist, My Name is Mookie | 2021
National Magazine Awards, Video, finalist My Name is Mookie | 2021
The Video Consortium Sony’s Mentorship Program | 2021
American Documentary Film Festival, Best Documentary, Paradise Without People | 2020
Taormina Film Festival, Best Documentary, Paradise Without People | 2020
News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Nominee, Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary, Finding Home | 2020
Olhares Film Festival, Special Mention, Paradise Without People | 2019
World Press Photo Award, Innovative Storytelling, Finding Home | 2018
Edward R. Murrow Award, Digital Innovation, Finding Home| 2018
Edward R. Murrow Award, Social Media, Finding Home | 2018
POYi, Online Feature Story Visual Editing, Finding Home | 2018
National Magazine Awards, Digital Innovation, finalist, Finding Home | 2018
National Magazine Awards, Social, finalist, instagram/findinghome | 2018
The Society of Publication Designers, Best Mobile Experience, finalist, Finding Home | 2018
Livingston Awards, International Reporting, finalist, Syrians Next Door | 2017
Front Page Award, Online Digital Video, Buying Time | 2016
SPEAKING
Mayborn School of Journalism | Oct. 2023
University of Wisconsin-Madison, International Reporting | Sept. 2023
NAHJ 2021, The Art of the Profile | July 2021
DOC NYC PRO, “Journalism & Documentary” | Nov. 2020
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, “Case Study: Paradise Without People and Time Studios” | Feb. 2020
WHNPA ‘Eyes of History®’ Contest | March 2020
Stockholm Film Festival | Nov. 2019
Heartland Film Festival, “From Cover Story to Feature Film” | Oct. 2019
Olhares Film Festival, Portugal | Oct. 2019
Refugee Film Festival | Sept. 2019
Northern Short Course | March 2019
The Power of Narrative “Keynote Panel: Telling the Stories of Immigrants and Refugees” | March 2019
Mountain Workshops | Oct. 2017
Tempo delle Donne, Corriere della Sera | Sept. 2018
World Press Photo | April 2018
Perugia Journalism Festival, “Visual Storytelling on Instagram” | Apr. 2017
SELECTED PRESS
“Paradise Without People” — Settestorie, RAI
“DOC NYC 2019 Women Directors: Meet Francesca Trianni” — Women and Hollywood
“A Directorial Debut” — Columbia College Today
Tempo delle Donne Festival – Corriere della Sera
"TIME starts year-long multimedia project” – Journalism.co.uk
“La sfida di Francesca: dal giornalino del liceo al premio con Time” — Corriere della Sera