Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticFilmmaker 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.
His focused on one that, as many have been forced to do, became an underground operation in order to remain undetected. In particular, The Cave centered on Dr.
Amani Ballour, who ran the operation at great risk to her own life.The Cave is up for Outstanding Merit in Documentary Film as well as writing, directing and cinematography.
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