Set to open this year’s edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, “The Swimmers” depicts two refugees’ epic journey from war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics. A...
A trailer has arrived for Isabella Carbonell’s debut feature. Set to make its world premiere at Venice Critics’ Week, “Dogborn” tells the story of a refugee brother and sister...
This year’s edition of the Toronto International Film Festival will kick off with Sally El Hosaini’s depiction of Olympian Yusra Mardini and her sister Sara’s heroic swim from...
Noura Kevorkian is a Syrian-Lebanese filmmaker who made her filmmaking debut with her first short documentary ” Veils Uncovered” (Official Competition, Amsterdam IDFA) about lingerie and...
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Megan Mylan has a new film on the way. HBO Documentary Films landed worldwide and streaming rights to “Simple as Water,” an exploration of the bonds...
Ana Lazarevic is a writer and director born in Belgrade, Serbia. She holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University. Her short film “The Runner” premiered at the New York Film Festival....
With “The Donut King,” director Alice Gu hopes to “challenge any preconceived notions of what a refugee is, or looks like, and that the film helps put a human face on refugees and...
A trailer has dropped for “The Donut King,” Alice Gu’s portrait of Ted Ngoy, AKA the Donut King, a Cambodian refugee who arrived in America in 1975 with nothing and built a donut...
“The Donut King,” a doc about a Cambodian refugee who built a donut empire stateside, has found a home. According to Deadline, Greenwich Entertainment snagged North American rights to...
A new trailer for Netflix’s “Stateless” sees the immigration detention center it’s set in described as a “reflection of [a] highly developed migration system enabling...
Mira Jargil is known for the award-winning festival hit “The Time We Have,” the feature documentary “Dreaming of a Family,” and the series “Till Death Do Us Part.” The...
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor’s work has shown at venues like the Sundance, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Locarno Film Festivals, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, and the New York...
Francesca Trianni is an Emmy-nominated senior producer at Time, where her work has been recognized with a World Press Photo award, Pictures of the Year International, and the National Murrow Awards....
Rory Kennedy is revisiting the past to provide timely commentary on the present in a new documentary. The Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director of “Last Days in Vietnam” will helm an...
Hind Meddeb currently works between Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Her first film, “Casablanca: One Way Ticket to Paradise,” tells the story of 14 Moroccan suicide bombers who killed...
Eva Mulvad had her international breakthrough in 2006, with the release of documentary “Enemies of Happiness,” which followed a female politician in Afghanistan. The film won the World...
Sally El Hosaini is bringing Olympian swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini’s story to the big screen. Screen Daily confirms El Hosaini is directing “The Swimmers,” a biopic...
Nasro, the 17-year-old protagonist of Girl Rising’s “Brave Girl Rising,” is a refugee and “a child with no mother, from a people with no home.” However, as the new...
An E.R. doctor sets sail to a small island that promises wild, untouched nature and gets more than she bargained for in a trailer for “Styx.” Rieke’s (Susanne Wolff, “The...
“New Homeland,” Oscar winner Barbara Kopple’s latest documentary, sees five refugee boys from Syria and Iraq going to summer camp, a fairly common rite of passage for kids in the...
Lena Dunham has been tapped to adapt a Syrian refugee survival story. The “Girls” creator and star will take “A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story...
Guest Post by Kate McCaslin
Much of what I know about filmmaking I learned this year from a Sudanese refugee named Rebecca Mabior. I admit it’s peculiar given that I’ve worked in the film...
Ísold Uggadóttir is an award-winning director from Iceland whose short films have screened at over 100 festivals including Telluride, Sundance, and New Directors / New Films at MoMA, and the Film...
Talya Tibbon is an award-winning director, producer, and writer. She’s worked in four continents documenting wide-ranging subjects such as street gangs, mass shooters and those who survive their...
“Every refugee has a dream. They dream of a better life,” says Mariam Shaar in an exclusive trailer for “Soufra.” She’s spent her entire life in a refugee camp south of Beirut, Lebanon,...
“I think that my refugee experience was very different than a lot of people coming to this country now,” says Milana Vayntrub in an episode of Indigenous Media’s new digital portrait series...
Michelle Monaghan may be stepping into the courtroom. The Golden Globe-nominated actress is in negotiations to star in “Saint Judy,” a biopic about LA immigration attorney Judy Wood, Deadline...
In 2015, Yusra Mardini and her sister Sara saved themselves and the fellow refugees on their dinghy by jumping into the freezing Aegean Sea and swimming the boat to safety. The Mardini sisters had...
Last year Saoirse Ronan earned an Oscar nomination for playing a young Irish immigrant who moves to New York in “Brooklyn,” and now the actress has signed on to portray another protagonist who...
The legendary Vanessa Redgrave has made her directorial debut. The long-time actress helmed “Sea Sorrow,” which stars Emma Thomspson and Ralph Fiennes, and tells the story of “refugees fleeing...
