Lia Beltrami has received the Golden Lion for Peace 2017 in Venice. She directed 45 documentaries all over the world; she won 76 awards for her films. She is appointed as Representative of Religions for Peace at FAO -UN. She was the artistic director at Vatican Pavilion at Expo Milan 2015, which was awarded as the Pavilion which best developed the theme and she was the artistic director for the photographic exhibition in Expo Astana 2017, Kazakhstan. In 1997 she founded Religion Today Film Festival, the first festival about inter-religious dialogue. She founded the group Women of Faith for Peace in Jerusalem. She wrote 5 books. She is the CEO of the production company Aurora Vision, advisor for Dhaka Film Festival Bangladesh and honorary member of the House of Wisdom, Grenada.