Biography
Delaware based multi-media producer Lou Angeli has been involved in filmmaking and television production most of his life. Angeli is also a firefighter, EMT and firefighter instructor whose primary area of expertise is firefighter safety. In 1989, he combined both vocations to specialize in film production and television programming dealing with the emergency services.
Angeli's work has been seen on broadcast programs like ABC's 20/20, Dateline: NBC, Rescue/911, Inferno, and Real-TV. Earlier in his television career, he served as a studio director for Philadelphia's PBS station, a remote director for ESPN, and a documentary cameraman for CNN. As a videojournalist, Angeli has documented two wars and dozens of disasters, including the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/01.
As a videographer, Angeli's most notable work is documenting fire-rescue incidents from the first responder's point-of-view. Riding along with fire departments in the USA, Canada, Italy and Sweden, Angeli follows firefighters inside burning buildings to offer the viewer a unique perspective on life as a firefighter.
On September 11, 2007, he announced start up of production on a new documentary dealing with illness and death among 9/11's emergency responders. In a press interview he noted that "70,000 emergency personnel and support volunteers responded to New York's call for help." He continued, "According to The World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program, fully 70% of these men and women are ill...the effects of having worked at Ground Zero." Angeli cites estimates that by the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center disaster, 1,000 emergency personnel will have died of illness contracted at Ground Zero.
Angeli remains active as a disaster responder serving on the Community Emergency Response Team (New Castle County, DE) and the Medical Reserve Corps, two disaster response programs borne of the ashes of the World Trade Center.
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