NEWS
Sep 29, 2017
Enormous gratitude to the Mountainfilm team who honored Search and Rescue (follow up to 50 Feet from Syria) with a Commitment Grant. We were singing their praises as the pre-eminent social justice non-fiction festival in North America before. Now? Speechless. Link to announcement here.
Aug 31, 2017
Skye Fitzgerald's '50 Feet from Syria' continues to deepen it's North American footprint with continued streaming on NETFLIX (US) and CRAVE TV (Canada). The film is also available in North America via our educational distributor Cinema Guild (http://store.cinemaguild.com/nontheatrical/product/2530.html).
Hisham Bismar, profiled in the film is featured on NPR's national show The Takeaway.
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Dec. 14th 2015
50 Feet From Syria
Voted onto Oscar Shortlist
October 26, 2015
Members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences voted 50 Feet From Syria onto the 10 film shortlist in the Documentary Shorts category today.
CBC Radio's THE CURRENT
interviews Dr. Hisham Bismar from the Oscar shortlisted film 50 FEET FROM SYRIA
50 Feet From Syria
Slated for Canadian premiere
The documentary film 50 Feet From Syria will screen at the Syrian Film Festival in Toronto on November 14th 2015
Dr. Hisham Bismar, featured in the film, is interviewed on OPB's Think Out Loud Program