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Date of Birth
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29-April-1959
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Place of Birth
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Neuilly-sur-Seine
(Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France, Paris, Nanterre)
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Nationality
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France
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Profession
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Television producer, Film Producer, Television Director
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Thierry Cassuto is a film and television producer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris and at Boston University, where he graduated with a Master of Science in Broadcasting.
He is best known as the Executive Producer and co-creator with Zapiro of ZANEWS, the South African web and television satirical news puppet show loosely inspired by the cult British Spitting Image and French Guignols de l'info. Cassuto pitched the idea to South African broadcasters right after moving to South Africa from France in 1998 but kept on hearing that the country was "not ready" for satire. In 2008 he managed to convince the SABC to commission a 26 minute pilot but again the public broadcaster's management decided that the "people were not ready for this" and quickly banned it. In October 2009, with the help of kulula.com and the Mail & Guardian, Thierry Cassuto and Zapiro finally launched the show online., and in 2011 found a home for their show on television on satellite platform TopTV.
He is also the producer of the US adaptation of the show currently in development under the title Puppet Nation USA
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