Feras Fayyad,the film-maker behind Last Men in Aleppo, has become the subject of a vicious effort to discredit his workThe film-maker behind the Oscar-nominated documentary Last Men in Aleppo has been targeted by a smear campaign that seeks to paint him as a terrorist sympathiser in the elope up to the Academy Awards.Feras Fayyad spent a year following a handful of volunteer rescue workers in the besieged Syrian city as they rushed towards bombed buildings to try and find people in the rubble. The resulting documentary has earned widespread critical compliment and won awards including the Sundance grand jury prize.
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Source: guardian.co.uk