Happy 29th Birthday, Waad Al-Kateab! Born today in 1991, her name is the pseudonym of a Syrian journalist, activist and filmmaker.
Al-Kateab is best known for shooting, producing, co-directing and starring in her only feature.
This was the 2019 British/Syrian/American documentary war film 'Min ajl Sama'('For Sama').
This was the 2019 British/Syrian/American documentary war film 'Min ajl Sama'('For Sama').
The film takes a powerfully intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
The story of Al-Kateab's life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while conflict rises around her.
The story of Al-Kateab's life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while conflict rises around her.
It focuses on Al-Kateab's journey as a journalist and rebel in the Syrian uprising.
Her husband is Hamza Al-Kateab, one of the few doctors left in Aleppo. He and Al-Kateab raise their daughter Sama Al-Kateab during the Syrian Civil War.
Her husband is Hamza Al-Kateab, one of the few doctors left in Aleppo. He and Al-Kateab raise their daughter Sama Al-Kateab during the Syrian Civil War.
At one of the few remaining hospitals in the city, both Al-Kateab and her husband face an agonizing decision to flee to safety or stay behind to help the innocent victims of war.
In a time of conflict and darkness in her home in Aleppo, Syria, Al-Kateab kept her camera rolling — while falling in love, getting married, having a baby and saying goodbye as her city crumbled.
Through the documentary, it unfolds as a love letter from Al-Kateab to her daughter — Sama.
'For Sama', was nominated for four BAFTAs, winning one for Best Documentary.
This occurred at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards on February 2, 2020. It became the most nominated documentary in the history of the BAFTA awards.
One week later also won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. This occurred at the 92nd Academy Awards on February 9, 2020.
It was her coverage of the Battle for Aleppo that won an International Emmy Award for Current Affairs & News for Channel 4 News. The pseudonymous surname Al-Kateab is used to protect her family.
In 2009, eighteen-year-old Al-Kateab moved to Aleppo to study economics at the University of Aleppo.
In 2011, when the Syrian Civil War broke out, she began reporting on the war for Channel 4 News in the United Kingdom.
She elected to stay and document her life over five years in Aleppo as she fell in love with Hamza Al-Kateab – her friend-turned-husband, a doctor – and married him in 2014.
The following year, Waad gave birth to their first daughter, Sama ("Sky"), which became the basis of her documentary.
For covering the Siege of Aleppo, she won an International Emmy for her reporting, the first Syrian to do so.
'For Sama' had its world premiere at the 32nd SXSW Film Festival on March 11, 2019, where it won the Documentary Feature Competition's Grand Jury and Audience Awards.
The documentary, co-directed by English filmmaker Edward Watts, won the Prix L'Œil d'or for Best Documentary at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival in May 2019, receiving a six-minute standing ovation.
After fleeing Aleppo in December 2016, Al-Kateab, her husband, and their two daughters currently reside in the United Kingdom.
Al-Kateab has been active from 2011–present.
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