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Edward Watts is an English filmmaker who is known for making documentaries and narrative-focused films. He has created films in conjunction with UK television network Channel 4 and ITN Productions. He is known for films including For Sama (2019), Escape From ISIS (2015) and The Mega Brothel (2015). He is the recipient of a number of ...
Edward Watts is an Oscar-nominated, BAFTA and Emmy award-winning filmmaker who has directed twenty-five narrative and documentary films, telling true stories from far flung corners of the world. His films have won over 50 awards including 4 British Independent Film Awards, 2 Amnesty International awards for Best Human Rights Documentary and the ...
I am an Oscar-nominated, BAFTA and Emmy award-winning filmmaker and human rights campaigner. My films have won over 50 awards including 4 British Independent Film Awards, 2 Amnesty...
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Jan 24, 2020 · ‘For Sama’ Directors Waad Al-Kateab And Edward Watts On Feeling Like “Little Fish” In Big Oscar Pond. By Matthew Carey. January 24, 2020 12:24pm. Michael Buckner/Shutterstock.
For Sama (Arabic: من أجل سما, romanized: min ʾajl Samā) is a 2019 documentary film produced and narrated by Waad Al-Kateab, and directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts. The film focuses on Waad Al-Kateab's journey as a journalist and rebel in the Syrian uprising .
Jun 10, 2019 · In 2016 Waad met her co-director Edward Watts, and their film, For Sama, took off. “I got involved when these great people [Waad and Hamza] left Aleppo,” Watts tells me when I sat down with the filmmakers just a few hours before the UK premiere of their film at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest.
May 25, 2019 · Besieged in Aleppo, Waad Al-Kateab kept filming. From her incredible archive, she assembled with British director Edward Watts the breathtaking and harrowing documentary For Sama.
