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EXCLUSIVE: Feras Fayyad, the Syrian filmmaker who helmed Emmy-winning National Geographic film The Cave, has told Deadline that he would never knowingly cause “worry and sorrow” to a woman after becoming embroiled in an alleged sexual harassment scandal in Denmark. The Scandinavian country has been gripped by a #MeToo…

Filmmaker Feras Fayyad joined me for Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees all-day event to discuss his multiple-Emmy nominated The Cave, the harrowing documentary he spent 3 1/2 years making. It chronicles the plight of hospitals trying to provide urgent medical care during the five-year Syrian civil war…

EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Amani Ballour, the courageous subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Cave, has been granted a visa to enter the United States in time for the Academy Awards, Deadline has learned. Amani, whose efforts to run a subterranean hospital in the besieged Syrian city of Eastern Ghouta are documented in…

Syria's brutal civil war has cost the lives of tens of thousands of civilians—men, women and children. It would have cost even more were it not for the life-saving efforts of Dr. Amani Ballour, the heroine of Feras Fayyad's Oscar-nominated documentary The Cave. Dr. Amani, who trained as a pediatrician, ran a…

The documentary community has been rallying around Syrian-born filmmaker Feras Fayyad, director of Oscar-shortlisted film The Cave, after he was denied a visa to enter the U.S. The situation escalated 10 days ago when Fayyad was detained on his way into Copenhagen, where he lives in exile, by immigration police and…

The Cave director Feras Fayyad, who earned an Oscar nomination for 2017’s Last Men in Aleppo, had been scheduled to appear at Nat Geo's TCA session today, but his chair was left empty. The State Department granted Fayyad permission to enter the U.S. for three months in September, an opportunity the Syria-born…

UPDATED at 6:19 p.m. PT with statement from U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs: “We can report that the appropriate U.S. Embassy has been in touch with Mr. Fayyad’s attorneys to obtain the remaining documents needed in order to complete the processing of his application. The Department wishes to…

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 International Documentary Association wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Friday, urging him to let Fayyad into the country to…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad, whose 2017 feature documentary Last Men in Aleppo was Oscar-nominated and won an Emmy. The pic, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the World Cinema grand jury doc prize, follows three men as they volunteer with the White Helmets civil defense…

Syrians living in cities besieged by the government of Bashar al-Assad exist in a sonic torture chamber. The skies shriek with Russian jets. Buildings groan from the concussive force of distant bomb blasts. Explosions from mortar shells shatter the peace. Bursts of small arms fire suddenly erupt. Adults and children…

The first Syrian director to be nominated for an Oscar, who made a huge impression with his 2017 film Last Men in Aleppo, Feras Fayyad has spent most of his career as a filmmaker documenting the horrors of the Syrian Civil War, and the heroism of those helping others to survive it—doing so most recently with his…

EXCLUSIVE: Syrian Oscar nominee Kareem Abeed still can't quite believe he made it to walk the red carpet at the Academy Awards. The producer of Feras Fayyad's Academy Award-nominated documentary Last Men in Aleppo had almost given up on attending the show after his visa request was denied under President Donald…