Luigi Scarano is an award-winning Italian investigative journalist and filmmaker. His work focuses on political corruption, extremism and domestic terrorism, mass surveillance, organized crime, and systemic abuse. He has authored and directed several investigative series based on long-term undercover reporting, including The Meloni Youth, uncovering the extremist side of the Brothers of Italy youth movement; Follow the Money, on the League’s €49 million fraud scandal; Superdiffusers, revealing far-right infiltration of Italy’s anti-vaccine protests; Black Lobby, exposing pro-Russian networks and neo-fascist ties within mainstream conservative parties; and Shalom – The Community of Horrors, which documented systemic abuse inside a Catholic-affiliated rehab center and its institutional cover-up. He is also co-founder and editor of Debrief, the first newsletter dedicated to undercover journalism. His work has been recognised with the European Award for Investigative and Judicial Journalism (2021), the Premio Vergani – Journalist of the Year (2022), and the DIG Award for Best Short (2024).