Who is the director of the documentary film titled, "Cries from Syria", and began his career as a teenager?
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Cries from Syria Cries from Syria is a documentary film about the Syrian Civil War, directed by Evgeny Afineevsky, and acquired by HBO. It contains video shot by Syrians with and interviews with freedom fighters, activists, journalists, defected military men, and refugees, some that are children.
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Evgeny Afineevsky Evgeny Afineevsky (born October 21, 1972) is a director, producer and cinematographer. His career began as a teenager when he won the First Prize for Best Documentary in the largest Republic in Russia and was sent to the Black Sea International Film Festival in Russia.
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Sounds Like Teen Spirit Sounds Like Teen Spirit (also known as "Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary") is a 2008 documentary and debut feature film of Bafta-Award nominated director Jamie Jay Johnson. It follows the lives of the participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007, specifically the entrants from Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Georgia. The film sees them proceed from the national finals that saw them crowned the representatives of their country through to the international song festival itself held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where they each compete against 16 other acts.
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The Road to Jenin The Road to Jenin is a 2003 documentary directed by Pierre Rehov, a French-Algerian film director of Jewish descent, whose documentaries mostly deal with the Middle East conflict. "The Road to Jenin" was produced to counter the Palestinian narrative in relation to the "Battle of Jenin", a clash between the Israeli army and Palestinian militants in April 2002 which drew Palestinian accounts of a "Jenin Massacre" (Arabic: مجزرة جنين‎ ‎ ). This film was also a response to Mohammed Bakri's film entitled Jenin, Jenin.
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Sam Berns Sampson Gordon "Sam" Berns (October 23, 1996 – January 10, 2014) was an American teen who had progeria and helped raise awareness about the disease. He was the subject of the HBO documentary "Life According to Sam", which was first screened in January 2013. He died one year later, after appearing in a TEDx Talks video titled "My philosophy for a happy life."
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Den Tolmor Den Tolmor is a Russian-born American film director and producer. Tolmor produced feature films, television series and documentaries. Den Tolmor is best known for directing "", which earned him an 2016 Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature with Evgeny Afineevsky. In 2017 Tolmor produced Cries from Syria, a documentary on Syrian civil war. The film was narrated by Helen Mirren. It was officially selected for Sundance Film Festival and aired by HBO.
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Owen Renfroe Owen Renfroe is an American film and television director. He graduated from Wesleyan University, where he studied film with Professor Jeanine Basinger. His professional career began at age ten, when he sang in the children’s chorus of the Metropolitan Opera Company.
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Shane Bitney Crone Shane Bitney Crone (born December 19, 1985) is an American filmmaker, writer, speaker, and advocate for LGBT rights.
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Unsettled Unsettled is a 2007 documentary feature film written, directed, and produced by Adam Hootnick, depicting the experiences of six young Israeli adults taking part in the Gaza disengagement of August, 2005. Its soundtrack features Matisyahu and other Israeli and Jewish pop music, and original music by Jon Lee.
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Roger Ross Williams Roger Ross Williams (born September 16, 1973) is an American television news, documentary and entertainment director, producer and writer. He directed most notably "Music by Prudence" that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), about a 21-year-old Zimbabwean singer-songwriter Prudence Mabhena, who was born severely disabled and has struggled to overcome poverty and discrimination. All other seven members of Prudence's band "Liyana" are also disabled. Williams's film "God Loves Uganda", which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival to enormous critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for a 2014 Academy Award, has won over a dozen awards and screened at over 60 film festivals worldwide. His latest film "Life, Animated" was nominated for the 2017 Academy Award.
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Mike Dibb Mike Dibb (born Leeds, West Yorkshire, 29 April 1940) is an award-winning English documentary filmmaker. In almost half a century of making films mainly for television – on subjects including cinema, literature, art, jazz, sport and popular culture – "he has defined and re-defined not only the televisual art documentary genre but has been able to make moving image pieces as a form of self portraiture". Dibb has made many acclaimed films, including on Federico García Lorca, C. L. R. James, Astor Piazzolla, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Barbara Thompson and other notable subjects. In the words of Sukhdev Sandhu in "The Guardian": "In a career spanning almost five decades, it's possible Dibb has shaped more ideas and offered more ways of seeing than any other TV documentarian of his generation." Mike Dibb is the father of film director Saul Dibb.
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Ken Loach Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is an English director of television and independent film. He is known for his socially critical directing style and for his socialist ideals, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty ("Poor Cow", 1967), homelessness ("Cathy Come Home", 1966) and labour rights ("Riff-Raff", 1991, and "The Navigators", 2001).
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Danijel Sraka Danijel Sraka (born December 22, 1975) is a Slovenian film director and producer. Sraka directed his first feature film, "Friday Night (V Petek Zvecer)", at age 22 (film shot in 1998, released in 2000).
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Brent E. Huffman Brent Edward Huffman (born September 4, 1979) is an American director, writer, and cinematographer of documentaries and television programs, including "Saving Mes Aynak" (2014). His work has been featured on "The Discovery Channel, The National Geographic Channel, NBC, CNN, PBS, TIME, The New York Times" and "Al Jazeera America" and "Al Jazeera English" and premiered at "International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)," and other U.S. and international film festivals. He is also an associate professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where he teaches documentary production and theory.
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Leo Howard Leo Richard Howard (born July 13, 1997) is an American actor and martial artist. He began his acting career at the age of seven, Howard is known for incorporating his karate skills into his feature film and television roles; as "Young Snake-Eyes" in the 2009 action film, "", as "Young Conan" in the 2011 fantasy film, "Conan the Barbarian", and as "Jack" on the Disney XD comedy series, "Kickin' It". Howard was certified as the youngest TV director ever by the Guinness World Records for his work on the episode "Fight at the Museum" in the fourth season of the "Kickin' It" TV series at age 16.
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Nabil Abou-Harb Nabil Zouheir Abou-Harb (Arabic: نبيل أبو حرب‎ ‎ ; born September 13, 1984) is an Arab-American filmmaker, writer, producer, and director. He is also co-founder of "Five on Fifty Films" and has directed and produced a number of commercials.
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Logan Lynn Logan Dennis Lynn (born October 15, 1979) is an American musician, writer, producer, filmmaker, television personality, mental health advocate and LGBT activist from Portland, Oregon.
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Alain Resnais Alain Resnais (] ; 3 June 19221 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included "Night and Fog" (1955), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.
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Jamie Campbell (documentary filmmaker) Jamie Campbell (born James Robert Campbell on 18 May 1977) is an English documentary film maker. He lives in London and studied at Radley College and Durham University, where he read English Literature. He has been described as "a kind of Louis Theroux for the post-geek lady viewer."
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Mike Mills (director) Michael Chadbourne "Mike" Mills (born March 20, 1966) is an U.S. film and music video director and graphic designer. He is perhaps best known for his independent films "Thumbsucker", "Beginners", and "20th Century Women". For the latter film, Mills was nominated for an Academy Award for his original screenplay.
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Tomas Mattias Löw Tomas "Mattias" Löw (born September 17, 1970) is a Swedish film director, film producer, documentary filmmaker, photographer and lecturer.
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Ruhi Hamid Ruhi Hamid is a British filmmaker, born in Tanzania of Asian origin, who has made award-winning documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera International, and other UK, US and European broadcasters. Her films have covered international stories — in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, the USA, and the Middle East — dealing with social and political issues about women religion, poverty, health, and human rights. A graduate of London's Royal College of Art, she is also a graphic designer.