Phara de Aguirre is a Belgian journalist and former presenter of the VRT programmes Terzake and Phara. She is known as a keen interviewer.

Phara de Aguirre was awarded the Humo's HA! in 2001. On 27 March 2009 and 6 March 2010, she received the Flemish Television Star for best presenter at the Gala of the Flemish Television Academy.

Between 2011 and 2023, De Aguirre taught interview techniques at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, which she combined with her work at VRT. In 2024, this institution awarded her the honorary title of Maestro Honoris Causa.

Since 6 October 2011, Phara de Aguirre has been the presenter of Panorama, for which she also reports. In December 2013, her reportage Love in times of cancer was broadcast on Canvas. De Aguirre herself is a breast cancer survivor.

In 2016, she began work on a programme about refugees for Canvas. The project will take five years to complete and will not be broadcast until 2020.

De Aguirre studied Pedagogical Sciences at KU Leuven.

Phara de Aguirre

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Name
Phara de Aguirre
Title
Journalist
Country
Belgium
City
Brussel
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Supported projects

Amazons

  • Armed conflict

PALESTINE/COLOMBIA/IRAQ - In the three-part documentary series Amazons, Phara de Aguirre goes in search of women who take up arms. She investigates why the women who made the radical choice, what they hope to achieve and what the consequences are, for themselves and for their environment.

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So I walked to Compostela

  • Equality
  • Social Affairs
  • Youth
  • Religion

SAINTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA - This book is based on thirty memorable life stories of youngsters who set out on a walk. How do they remember the trek? How do they look back on it? What did that journey mean for the rest of their lives? Also thirty compagnons voice their thoughts - parents, counselors and juvenile court judges.

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