Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ma'a al-Fidda) is one of "the most essential films at the New York Film Festival," declares Notebook editor Daniel Kasman. Ossama Mohammed's "powerful found footage essay is gradually woven into new footage shot on the ground during the siege of Homs by co-director Wiam Simav Bedirxan" to, as Pamela Cohn puts it in Bomb, "create a poetic lamentation for their disintegrating country caught in a brutal civil war between warring factions entrenched in regime-, Isis-, and opposition-controlled zones." We're gathering reviews and have posted a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 10/8/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ma'a al-Fidda) is one of "the most essential films at the New York Film Festival," declares Notebook editor Daniel Kasman. Ossama Mohammed's "powerful found footage essay is gradually woven into new footage shot on the ground during the siege of Homs by co-director Wiam Simav Bedirxan" to, as Pamela Cohn puts it in Bomb, "create a poetic lamentation for their disintegrating country caught in a brutal civil war between warring factions entrenched in regime-, Isis-, and opposition-controlled zones." We're gathering reviews and have posted a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 10/8/2014
- Keyframe
Exclusive: Documentary captures life in besieged Syrian city of Homs through work of rebel female video reporter.
Paris-based sales company Doc & Film International has picked up sales on Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait ahead of its out of competition premiere in Cannes.
It is co-directed by exiled Syrian director Ossama Mohammed in Paris and Wiam Bedirxan, a female video journalist filming events on the ground in the besieged city of Homs.
The film was born out of an Internet chat between Mohammed and Bedirxan, in which she asked: “If you’re camera were in Homs, what would you film?”
The end result is a film combining Bedirxan’s material with other footage shot by video reporters in the city, sometimes sent to Mohammed in Paris directly, other times culled from YouTube or social media sites.
Mohammed has been living in exile in Paris since 2011, having become persona non grata back home after openly denouncing the regime of Syrian...
Paris-based sales company Doc & Film International has picked up sales on Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait ahead of its out of competition premiere in Cannes.
It is co-directed by exiled Syrian director Ossama Mohammed in Paris and Wiam Bedirxan, a female video journalist filming events on the ground in the besieged city of Homs.
The film was born out of an Internet chat between Mohammed and Bedirxan, in which she asked: “If you’re camera were in Homs, what would you film?”
The end result is a film combining Bedirxan’s material with other footage shot by video reporters in the city, sometimes sent to Mohammed in Paris directly, other times culled from YouTube or social media sites.
Mohammed has been living in exile in Paris since 2011, having become persona non grata back home after openly denouncing the regime of Syrian...
- 5/6/2014
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Documentary captures life in besieged Syrian city of Homs through work of rebel female video reporter.
Paris-based sales company Doc & Film International has picked up sales on Silvered Water, Syrian Self-Portrait ahead of its out of competition premiere in Cannes.
It is co-directed by exiled Syrian director Ossama Mohammed in Paris and Wiam Bedirxan, a female video journalist filming events on the ground in the besieged city of Homs.
The film was born out of an Internet chat between Mohammed and Bedirxan, in which she asked: “If you’re camera were in Homs, what would you film?”
The end result is a film combining Bedirxan’s material with other footage shot by video reporters in the city, sometimes sent to Mohammed in Paris directly, other times culled from YouTube or social media sites.
Mohammed has been living in exile in Paris since 2011, having become persona non grata back home after openly denouncing the regime of Syrian...
Paris-based sales company Doc & Film International has picked up sales on Silvered Water, Syrian Self-Portrait ahead of its out of competition premiere in Cannes.
It is co-directed by exiled Syrian director Ossama Mohammed in Paris and Wiam Bedirxan, a female video journalist filming events on the ground in the besieged city of Homs.
The film was born out of an Internet chat between Mohammed and Bedirxan, in which she asked: “If you’re camera were in Homs, what would you film?”
The end result is a film combining Bedirxan’s material with other footage shot by video reporters in the city, sometimes sent to Mohammed in Paris directly, other times culled from YouTube or social media sites.
Mohammed has been living in exile in Paris since 2011, having become persona non grata back home after openly denouncing the regime of Syrian...
- 5/6/2014
- ScreenDaily
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