Oscar-nominated filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky logged countless miles to make his latest documentary, Cries from Syria—with the passport stamps to prove it. "[I] was in Jordan… Lebanon and Bekaa Valley, Hezbollah territory," he tells Deadline of the places where he shot material for the film. "I was in all European…

As Donald Trump’s presidency tries once more to pass legislation designed to restrict travel to the U.S. for citizens of some Muslim-majority countries, HBO Documentary Films gears up for the March 13 launch of Evgeny Afineevsky’s Sundance-premiering Cries From Syria, which takes a comprehensive and unflinching look…

The champagne will be on ice for Netflix’s doc team this year, as their two runs at Oscar both made the nominees list: Liz Garbus’s What Happened, Miss Simone? and Evgeny Afineevsky’s Winter on Fire. For Afineevsky, it means trading the hostile conditions of the Maidan revolution in Ukraine in 2013/14 for the red…