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In The Hot Zone: Oscar-Nominated Documentarians Put Their Lives On The Line To Shed Light On War, Dictators, Injustice
The Oscar-nominated directors of '20 Days in Mariupol,' 'Bobi Wine: The People's President,' and 'To Kill a Tiger' risked death to tell raw stories.
In recent years, Feras Fayyad ( Last Men in Aleppo), Talal Derki ( Of Fathers and Sons), Waad Al-Kateab ( For Sama), and Matthew Heineman ( Cartel Land) have put themselves in serious jeopardy to complete their Oscar-nominated films. A potentially fatal incident unfolded in November 2020 as Bwayo traveled alongside a motorcade transporting Bobi Wine, the Ugandan pop star-turned-politician who was running for president against the country’s dictator, Yoweri Museveni. After international journalists evacuated Mariupol for safety reasons, the director and his team remained behind, understanding that without visual documentation the world would not grasp the scale of the tragedy — the thousands of innocent children, women and men killed in Russia’s merciless assault.
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