{"id":116201,"date":"2020-01-08T12:10:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T12:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=116201"},"modified":"2020-01-08T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T12:10:45","slug":"syrian-documentary-for-sama-has-been-nominated-for-4-baftas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=116201","title":{"rendered":"Syrian documentary \u2018For Sama\u2019 has been nominated for 4 BAFTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- m -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5751019935\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"id_text\">\n<p>2019 might have been a great year for Hollywood movies, but it\u2019s been an exceptional one for Arab cinema.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018For Sama\u2019<\/i> has made history by been nominated for four different categories that include: &#8216;Outstanding British film&#8217;, &#8216;Outstanding debut by a British writer&#8217;, director or producer, &#8216;Best film not in the English language&#8217; and &#8216;Best Documentary&#8217;. Directed by Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, this Syrian documentary has much to be proud of. It has already won an exhaustive list of awards such as the \u2018Best Feature\u2019 at the International Documentary Association Awards, the Prix L\u2019\u0152il d\u2019Or for ;&#8217;Best Documentary; at the Cannes Film Festival and the British Independent Film Award for \u2018Best British Documentary\u2019. If all this weren\u2019t enough, the documentary was recently shortlisted for the \u2018Best Documentary Feature\u2019 at the upcoming Oscars.<\/p>\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5511153269\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The documentary showcases Waad Al-Kateab\u2019s journey of living in a war-torn Aleppo right from the beginning of the uprising. \u201cIt is such an honor to be nominated for a prestigious BAFTA award. But to be nominated in four different categories is simply overwhelming,\u201d Al-Kateab and Watts said. \u201cWe hope <i>For Sama<\/i> gives audiences some sense of the brutal repression and humanitarian crisis in Syria which continues to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"5\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 5 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9258826580\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/culture\/8603\/syrian-documentary-for-sama-has-been-nominated-for-4-baftas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 3 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2884989920\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] 2019 might have been a great year for Hollywood movies, but it\u2019s been an exceptional one for Arab cinema. \u2018For Sama\u2019 has made history by been nominated for four different categories that include: &#8216;Outstanding British film&#8217;, &#8216;Outstanding debut by a British writer&#8217;, director or producer, &#8216;Best film not in the English language&#8217; and &#8216;Best &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116203,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116201\/revisions\/116203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}