The documentary community is rallying around Syrian-born filmmaker Feras Fayyad, director of Oscar-shortlisted film The Cave, after he was denied a visa to enter the United States. The Internationa…
The letter was signed by the IDA’s executive director, Simon Kilmurry, and other prominent figures in documentary including Oscar winner Alex Gibney and Academy member Joan Churchill .
“I told [the consular official] I’m just going to promote my movie… I’m an artist and I’m a filmmaker,” Fayyad recounts. “She said, ‘I understand your frustration, but we can’t do anything.’”tells the story of Dr. Amani Ballour, the first woman to lead a hospital in Syria, who made heroic efforts to save lives in a subterranean medical facility in Eastern Ghouta, as the city sustained constant bombing by Syrian government forces and their Russian allies. Fayyad says Dr.
“I got a call from National Geographic in the middle of the night. They told me, ‘We’re sorry we’re calling you but you have to wake up, this is important.’ And I said, ‘What’s happening now? Is there bad news?’ [They replied], ‘You were just shortlisted,’” Fayyad recalls. “I felt so happy. I had been a little bit like losing energy and everything from this visa situation; [the news] just gave me a little bit of hope.
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