Andre Vltchek

In March 2019, he was the keynote speaker for the "No to NATO and War — Yes to Peace and Progress" meeting and rally, held in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.; and interviewed on Regina Community Radio.

In 2015, he produced and directed documentary film 'Rwanda Gambit' and broadcast by Press TV. It aims at reversing official narrative on 1994 Rwandan genocide, exposing the Rwandan and Ugandan plunder of DR Congo on behalf of Western imperialism.

For UNESCO Vltchek wrote and directed a film Tumaini about social collapse and devastation caused by HIV pandemic in communities around Lake Victoria in Kenya. In 2012, he wrote and directed the documentary One Flew Over Dadaab to depict the 20-year long tragedy of Somali refugees in the largest refugee camps in the world (Dadaab, in Northern Kenya).

Commenting on Vltchek's book Oceania, published in 2010, American linguist Noam Chomsky said that it evoked "the reality of the contemporary world" and that "He has also not failed to trace the painful - and particularly for the West, shameful realities to their historical roots".

He has covered armed conflicts in Peru, Kashmir, Mexico, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, Congo, India, South Africa, East Timor, Indonesia, Turkey and the Middle East. He has traveled to more than 140 countries, and has written articles for Der Spiegel, the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, The Guardian, ABC News and the Czech Republic daily Lidové noviny. Since 2004, Vltchek has served as a Senior Fellow at the Oakland Institute.

In 2004 he produced and directed a documentary film about the Indonesian massacres in 1965 – Terlena – Breaking of The Nation. Right after a devastating earthquake that shook Chile in February 2010, Vltchek travelled to Chile and produced a documentary titled Chile Between Two Earthquakes.

André Vltchek (pronounced "vultcek") was born in St. Petersburg [Leningrad] the Soviet Union, in 1962. His father was a Czech nuclear physicist and his mother a Russo-Chinese painter. He was raised in Central Europe. He is currently based in Asia and Africa.